The Indians have designated righty George Kontos for assignment, per a club announcement. His roster spot will go to starter Carlos Carrasco, who has been activated from the 10-day DL.
Kontos opened the year with the Pirates, but landed with the Cleveland organization after the Bucs cut him loose. He ended up making six appearances for the Indians. In his 25 total frames on the season, Kontos carries a 4.68 ERA with 4.7 K/9 and 2.5 BB/9.
That output is far shy of his prior work. Indeed, entering the season, Kontos had allowed 110 earned runs in 330 1/3 career MLB innings. He had seemingly found another gear in 2017, when he dwarfed his prior standard with 9.5 K/9 and a 16.4% swinging-strike rate. But those advances have not proven sustainable.
He did pretty well in his 6 appearances for the tribe. I’d rather have him over Otero.
Doing well over a couple games and actually pitching well can be two dramatically different things.
For his time with the Indians, his babip against of .140 shows how lucky he was in those 6 appearances. Meanwhile his 5.17 FIP indicates how he was actually pitching and shows more what should be expected moving forward. (not that surprisingly, the 5.17 matches what he was doing in Pittsburgh earlier in the year as well)
You didn’t lose anything here
Should have kept Kontos and DFA’d Zach McAllister.
Carrasco should be a big help righting CLE back to playoff form. Pitching pitching pitching…
Indians starting rotation is solid. Potential to shut teams down in October.