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Blue Jays Sign Mike Hauschild

By Steve Adams | August 2, 2018 at 9:24pm CDT

The Blue Jays have signed right-hander Mike Hauschild to a Major League contract, as first noted by Shi Davidi and Mike Wilner of Sportsnet (Twitter links). The Jays didn’t make a formal announcement of the move via press release or on Twitter, but Hauschild is on tonight’s lineup card. Furthermore, Davidi tweets that manager John Gibbons said Hauschild is expected to follow Tyler Clippard in a bullpen game of sorts tonight. It appears that infielder/outfielder Darnell Sweeney was the necessary roster casualty, as he’s not on tonight’s lineup card, and the Jays had a full 40-man roster prior to bringing Hauschild aboard.

Hauschild, 28, was recently released by the Astros after posting a 4.88 ERA with 8.6 K/9, 3.5 BB/9, 0.65 HR/9 and a 53.6 percent ground-ball rate. He has a bit of big league experience, having been a Rule 5 pick of the Rangers in 2016 and subsequently logging eight innings at the MLB level for them in 2017. He was ultimately returned to the Houston organization after surrendering 10 runs in that small sample.

Though Hauschild’s numbers in Triple-A this season weren’t his best, he still brings a career 3.97 ERA with better than eight strikeouts per nine innings and a ground-ball rate north of 50 percent at the Triple-A level to his new club. He’ll join the Jays’ bullpen for the time being, though all 76 of his career appearances at the Triple-A level have been starts. He could eventually emerge as a rotation option in Toronto, particularly if the team moves a veteran like Marco Estrada in the month of August.

Sweeney, 27, appeared in a pair of games for the Jays and went hitless in four plate appearances. He’s spent most of the season at Triple-A Buffalo, where he’s batted .235/.310/.398 in 255 plate appearances. The former Dodgers and Phillies prospect has a career .254/.322/.393 slash in 1718 career plate appearances at that level.

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  1. jimmertee

    3 years ago

    The rebuild contnues….more spare parts for the Jays. Finally. Two years too late. But I’ll take it.

    Under Shaprio/Atkins the next 5-10 years are going to be painful to watch.

    Time for a regime change of some sort.

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  2. dalrob

    3 years ago

    I agree but, man, without Gurriel or any other future Jay to cheer for, this team is pretty much unwatchable!

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    • jimmertee

      3 years ago

      Yah I hear ya. Gurriel Jr going to be a star. Hernandez at bats are cool to watch although he is still a bit of a butcher in the field. Hernandez will eventually learn to play the outfield, but his ceiling is an average fiielder.

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  3. bluejays92

    3 years ago

    Oh this explains my confusion now. I’m sitting here watching them play in Seattle and this dude pitched the third inning and I was sitting here wondering why I had never heard of him.

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    • jimmertee

      3 years ago

      Yah no kidding.

      On the Seattle side, I hadn’t seen Felix in a while. He has slipped back significantly in his pitching. Fastball not above 90 MPH. Curve is still Elite. CHangeup fair. Jays should be killing him but they are not [yet].

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  4. TrimReaper

    3 years ago

    Another senseless move. Conor Fisk, Justin Shafer, Justin Dillon and Jordan Romano all pitched well enough to deserve a shot with the club, not some outsider getting lit up with other teams in AAA. Way to reward the guys finding success in your own development program. Hauschild hasn’t pitched well enough in the minors to justified being in the majors.

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    • goalieguy41

      3 years ago

      And how did he do last night there genius

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      • TrimReaper

        3 years ago

        Do not care how well he pitched last night.

        I guess in your mind Clayton Kershaw sucks because he’s 5-5 on the year and Zack Grienke’s performance last night means he must be cut. Well played, Genius….

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  5. dalrob

    3 years ago

    Would it be unfair to say that it would be stupid to waste any service time on a future Jay this year as they are so bad? Might as well go with retreads. The guy looked good last night. Nothing straight, good command, throws a little harder than Gaviglio. When all the kids come up together, It will be much more fun to watch ala the Leafs.

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    • TrimReaper

      3 years ago

      There are guys 24-25 years old that deserve a chance. Service time or not, time to see if 1 or 2 guys can hang in the majors.

      Gaviglio earned the right to be called up because of his performance in AAA with the Jays organization. I have no problem with that.

      Gurriel’s improvement is thanks in-part to his experience in the majors so far. Yes, he has a guaranteed contract. Do you want guys to improve or do you want journeyman never-will-be pitchers taking up spots? If you are part of the latter, fine. That mentality has been the Jays organization for at least 15 years, and that mentality overall has been a failure.

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      • Paul Miller

        3 years ago

        The problem is that Buffalo (AAA) has had a grueling schedule with multiple double headers due to rain outs so there wasn’t a lot of options in Buffalo to use.

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        • TrimReaper

          3 years ago

          Paul Miller – Romano is in AA. As for rationalizing your excuse for not calling up a guy, here’s how you fix that.

          – Call up a AA pitcher to AAA
          – Call up a A pitcher to AA
          – Call up …. (repeat)

          The move to get this journeyman pitcher is one of the execs said “hey, this guy has something”, and the rest is history. It’s the same small mindset that continues to plague the Blue Jays organization.

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  6. jimmertee

    3 years ago

    Trim is correct, this entire during this regime the Jays have been slow off the mark on many of their decisions: when to sell a player[donaldson, estrada, etc etc]; calling up and promoting players [Vlad jr, half the AAA pitching staff; when to rebuild[called for 2 years ago].

    Remember folks Shapiro took over Cleveland in 2002 and never reached a world series. The team reached a world series under the next regime in 2014, but the current regime had to clean up Shapiro’s mess of Biourne, Swisher, trade for Miller etc etc.

    Old habits die hard. This team doesn’t need a pereenial focus on drafting and minor legaue development, it needs a DD or ZCashman to do the things needed to get back into real competing.

    Otherwise it is years, and I mean many more years of the same.

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    • TrimReaper

      3 years ago

      Jimmer, I’d throw in Ricciardi and AA’s tenure also. AA was given the opportunity to really ramp up the spending in a time period when the Yankees and Boston were vulnerable, and Tampa’s string of success finally ran out.

      Ricciardi and his moneyball minions could not draft if their lives depended on it. Some of them wound up in New York with the Mets, others stayed with the Jays (Tinnish). Blame must be put squarely on the shoulders of Rogers. They continue to hire soft leaders.

      If the Jays wanted the real architect of Indians baseball they can hire John Hart for a couple years to restore order. I would hire Hart if Cherington leaves for a GM job.

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      • jimmertee

        3 years ago

        Ricarddi wouldn’t listen to scouts and fired a ton of good ones. I like AA, good talent guy and not afraid to take risks. Cherington did an awful job with the RedSox, turf him too.

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  7. Frank Diehl

    3 years ago

    This guy pitched deep into a game, something that most of the Jays’ starters could not do this year. Good pick up. Why haven’t they dumped Luis Perez, Jake Petricka and Joe Biagini yet?

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    • JDGoat

      3 years ago

      Anyone’s better than Santos

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    • TrimReaper

      3 years ago

      Luis Perez? Is it 2013-14?

      No, this pickup does absolutely nothing for the future of this team. Winning a meaningless game in a lost season also does nothing for the Jays. Want to drop Petricka? Fine. Biagini? I do not know why the organization felt the need to make him a starter. I’d be willing to give Biagini more time in the bullpen because of 2016. Every Jays fan should never forget how good and how gutsy Biagini pitched all year.

      Time for the homegrown players to learn the major leagues. Get their feet wet and butts kicked.

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    • jimmertee

      3 years ago

      Let’s see how Hauschild pitches in his next 2 outings.Does he give up 7 runs in 3 innings and come back to earth? All these Sportsnet stories of his arrival to the Jays are silly. In a month or two he’ll likely be gone and forgotten.

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  8. jimmertee

    3 years ago

    Hey Guess what? I was wrong. Hauschild didn’t give up 7 runs in 3 innings of his second start becuase he wasn’t allowed too. Gibby pulls him after 51 pitches, 4 runs in the first inning..

    Emphaizes how stupid a signing this is and even more stupid was all the stories about how good he was for one game and the miracle story of how he was signed and made it on the mound in time.

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