Here are Wednesday’s minor moves from around the game…
- The New Jersey Jackals of the independent CanAm Association announced this week that they’ve signed former big league righty Vin Mazzaro. Now 31 years of age, Mazzaro turned in a terrific season out of the Pirates’ bullpen as a 26-year-old back in 2013, working to a 2.81 ERA with 5.6 K/9, 2.6 BB/9, 0.37 HR/9 and a 52.2 percent ground-ball rate in 73 2/3 innings. He’s totaled just 23 1/3 innings in the big league since that point, however, stumbling to a 5.79 ERA in that time. He tossed just one inning in 2016 and didn’t appear in the Majors last year. Now, the New Jersey native will join the Jackals for a homecoming of sorts, perhaps leveraging the independent circuit as a stepping stone back into affiliated ball.
- The Twins traded Double-A lefty Anthony McIver to the Mariners in exchange for cash, as reflected on the transactions log at MLB.com and at each club’s web site. McIver has been solid in 13 1/3 innings of Double-A ball this year, though he’s barely pitched above Class-A Advanced in his pro career to date despite being 26 years of age. The Twins picked him in the 15th round of the 2015 draft, and he’s opened the 2018 season with a 2.70 ERA, a 15-to-5 K/BB ratio, no homers allowed and a 40 percent ground-ball rate.
NJ Jackals…. Pride of our state!!!
Ok, Ok, we got the NJ Devils (NHL)
Until right now I just realized there is no longer a New Jersey Nets. Shows how closely I follow basketball.
hope we get are own baseball team one day
Don’t forget about the N.J. Giants and N.J. Jets
Mazzaro: “He surrendered 14 runs in 2⅓ innings in an emergency appearance out of the bullpen in a 19–1 loss to the Cleveland Indians at Kauffman Stadium on May 16, 2011..”
Memphis low enough for sally maybe
do you guys and gals think that we might release lance lynn from the twins and release lhp enns from triple a and call up stephen gonsalvez and kohl stewart and luke bard and release busenitz call up may santana and call up nick gordon and lamonte wade and tyler jay and release john curtiss duffey and hughes and recall nick anderson melotakis and baxendale
Why in the world would any of those things happen?
I’m with @CoreyM… They’re not going to release Lance Lynn, especially if his outings continue to improve.
They aren’t going to release Phil Hughes either! They’d have to pay the remainder of the $13.2MM he’s owed and get nothing for it.
I like these moves, apart from releasing Curtiss