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Minor MLB Transactions: 4/23/18

By Steve Adams | April 23, 2018 at 9:06am CDT

We’ll kick off the week with Monday’s minor moves from around the game…

  • The Dodgers picked up right-hander Tyler Pill from the Diamondbacks in exchange for cash considerations in a minor swap late last week (Twitter link via J.P. Hoornstra of the Southern California News Group). Pill, 27, signed a minor league deal with the D-backs after making his big league debut with the Mets in 2017. The brother of former big league first baseman Brett Pill, Tyler tossed 22 innings for the Mets and yielded 13 earned runs (5.32 ERA) on 22 hits and 10 walks with 16 strikeouts last season. He’s posted solid numbers up through Double-A but struggled at the Triple-A level, although those shaky results came exclusively at an exceptionally hitter-friendly setting in Las Vegas (and the Pacific Coast League in general). Pill debuted with the Dodgers’ own Triple-A affiliate over the weekend and tossed three scoreless frames. He’ll add some depth to an organization that shuffles its pitching staff and the fringes of its 40-man roster perhaps more aggressively than any club in the game.
  • Right-hander Luke Jackson cleared waivers and was outrighted to Triple-A by the Braves after being designated for assignment last week, per Baseball America’s Matt Eddy. The 26-year-old Jackson owns a 4.85 ERA and a 36-to-21 K/BB ratio in 52 innings with the Braves over the past two seasons and has struggled to a 5.79 ERA in 70 total innings at the big league level. Jackson hasn’t missed enough bats in the big leagues (5.8 K/9, 10.7 H/9), but he does have a track record of missing bats in the minors (career 9.8 K/9).
  • Also via Eddy, the Reds have released outfielder Adam Brett Walker from the organization. Walker, 27, was a third-round pick of the Twins in 2012 and boasts huge raw power but plenty of swing-and-miss issues as well as a limited defensive skill set. Minnesota removed him from the 40-man roster after the 2016 season, and he landed with the Brewers, Orioles (twice), Braves and Reds via a series of waivers claims and minor league signings in 2017 alone. Walker’s power is evident in looking at his career .232 ISO in the minors, but he’s whiffed in 30.9 percent of his minor league plate appearances — including an enormous 37.4 percent strikeout clip in Triple-A.
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  1. beauvandertulip

    7 years ago

    Just letting you know, Tyler Pill didn’t struggle in AAA in 2017. He posted a 3.47 era in 80 innings, he had a bit of good fortune. But didn’t struggle.

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    • Steve Adams

      7 years ago

      His overall career in Triple-A is what I was referencing.

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    • rcalvin1

      7 years ago

      When you’re 27 it is

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  2. BlueSkyLA

    7 years ago

    The Dodgers’ philosophy of roster management reminds me of the old C&W song, “put another log on the fire.” Or in this case, a pill.

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  3. Lyman Bostock

    7 years ago

    If you’re 27 years old pitching in AAA and needed good fortune to post a 3.47 ERA over just 80 innings, it’s not far fetched to think you might be struggling.

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  4. Jbigz12

    7 years ago

    Dodgers lost Asher, Liranzo, and Ysla who they traded to get Liranzo. Guess they needed some more fringe 40 man arms to fill up AAA.

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