Here are Monday’s minor moves from around the league…
- The Angels acquired minor league right-hander Max Cordy from the Twins in exchange for cash, Matt Eddy of Baseball America reports. Minnesota selected the now-24-year-old Cordy in the final round of the 2015 draft. He’s yet to advance beyond A-ball, though he does come with a track record of missing bats and inducing huge ground-ball rates (north of 60 percent) in the low minors. Cordy has averaged 5.5 walks per nine innings pitched since being drafted and is off to a rough start in Class-A Advanced this season, owning a 7.15 ERA in 11 2/3 innings.
- The Orioles picked up minor league catcher Wilson Garcia from the Phillies in exchange for cash, also via Eddy. The 24-year-old Garcia is a career .281/.314/.386 hitter in the minors, but he’s yet to move past A-ball. Garcia seemingly throws quite well, given a 40 percent caught-stealing mark in his career to date. Baltimore assigned him to their Class-A Advanced affiliate in Frederick.
- Right-hander Luis Santos cleared waivers and was sent outright to Triple-A Buffalo by the Blue Jays, per the team’s transactions log on their official web site. The 27-year-old was clobbered for six runs in 1 2/3 innings in his lone MLB appearance this season before being designated for assignment. Santos did post a 2.70 ERA and a 16-to-4 K/BB ratio in 16 2/3 innings in the Majors last season, and he has a career 3.90 ERA with 8.1 K/9 against 3.8 BB/9 in 117 2/3 innings of relief at the Triple-A level.
If the Jays Santos could get the form back he had in 2016, he’d be money. Hard to fathom how a guy was so good and now is so bad unless it is injury or lack of vitamins. Hmmmm
Are we talking about the same Luis Santos? From 2017 with a small sample size to work with? I don’t remember him throwing in the big leagues in 2016.
Nonetheless the bullpen right now has shined, and the starting pitching is about to kill all that with their early inning implosions. The bullpen has kept Toronto above .500.
Yes, i am sure its a vitamin deficiency that is the problem…
Ask Ricky Romero, he’ll know
All hail to the jimmertree,,,,the god of jays trials and tribulations,,,,,,just waiting for them to fail and then list the I told you so’s,,,,,,,and if they don’t fail,,,praise the luck that came about,,,,ughhh,,,,,,take your vitamins!
There is never a good reason to insult a blogger on this pages. Please be professional.
There is good scouting that can tell you far in advance of the makeup and potential success of ta club and then there is RARA marketing crap put out by media and the clubs that has no basis in reality at all. Good scouting cuts through that RARA crap. That’s what I do.
If you want good stuff, let me repeat this one that I also said in spring training. Red Sox win the AL East, Yankees are the wildcard, Yankees move on to appear if not win in the world series. Jays miss the playoffs.
That’s what you do? Make sure the Jays take their vitamins ? Do you make sure they drink enough water
and eat all the veggies on their plates ? Get 8 hours of sleep
and brush their teeth after every meal too? So are you a Scout again OR a den mother ? LoL
and eat all the veggies on their plates? Get 8 hours of sleep
and brush after every meal too? So are you a scout again or a den mother ? LoL