The Dodgers have signed veteran right-hander Zach McAllister to a minor league contract and assigned him to Triple-A Oklahoma City, as announced by the team’s Triple-A director of communications, Alex Freedman (Twitter link).
McAllister, 30, has struggled through a disastrous season split between the Indians and Tigers, working to a combined 6.20 ERA in 45 innings of work. However, he has a solid big league track record and has posted a quality 39-to-10 K/BB ratio so far in spite of the poor results. McAllister’s 95.3 mph average fastball velocity is as strong as ever, and he’s actually made some gains in swinging-strike rate and his opponents’ chase rate on out-of-zone pitches.
From 2015-17, McAllister served in a setup capacity for the Indians and pitched to a pristine 2.99 ERA with 10.0 K/9 against 3.3 BB/9 through 183 1/3 innings of work. Given the Dodgers’ extreme bullpen struggles of late, it’s understandable that the organization is speculating on some depth additions in an effort to solidify the group in the season’s final month. With rosters set to expand on Sept. 1, McAllister could be in line for a quick return to the big leagues.
low risk high reward….. given the dodgers bullpen struggles, i’m not surprised.
If he sees the light of day, and god forbid makes the post season roster, have fun Dodger fans! He’s got nothing left to give you…..just ask the Indians and Tigers.
Tiger fans are still paying attention?
More like, no risk no reward.
If this season has been any indication, high risk no reward.
Risk only come into the pitcture if he appears in a major league game. Unfortunately, that is probably the plan.
And for some reason he continues to get signed.
smh…..
Yet Mickey Callaway didn’t take a flyer..hmmmm
Mickey no longer has to deal with Francona’s hunches. Lucky him. We still have to.
Ugh.
And released.
You seem to comment on everything zach related…hes gone I think you can get over it now and go back to your mlb road to the show career.
What’s that?
The Dodgers’ newest batting practice pitcher. Just what the doctor ordered.
You can have Josh Tomlin and Dan Otero if he tires of throwing BP and then in the off-season you can overpay for Cody Allen to toss some more…
The Dodgers find pitchers like this often. Brandon Morrow for one. Heck, got Turner like this. Relax dude
Lol Zach McAllister is nothing like Morrow. Morrow always was deemed to have a decently high ceiling but never found it with TOR or SD before going to LA. McAllister is just an average arm at best who has never had even an average ceiling.
That’s flat out wrong. As recently as last year, McAllister had a great year – 2.61 ERA / 9.5 K/9 over 62 IP.
He’s been well below par this year, but to pretend he hasn’t performed in the past is flat out ignorant.
Apparently you find bullpen meltdowns relaxing and can’t get enough of them.
So that’s where we differ. For darn right and for sure.
Kenley has been the one melting down lately. Which he will come around from when he is 100 %
Yeah and when or if Jansen gets his game back together then all that remains to worry about is the rest of the junk in the bullpen. Sure great they added more of that.
Wrong, Turner was signed in the spring as a free agent after the Mets released him. He was not picked up on waivers. Get your facts straight.
ZMac is a great pitcher. He still throws very hard. I’ll be rooting for him unless the Dodgers play the Indians in the World Series
Great? Your definition of “great” must widely differ from almost anyone else who ever saw him pitch. Serviceable in the past, terrible this past year and a half, but never accused of being “great”.
Great? You consider an over 4 career ERA great? You are delusional
Oh look. Another recently DFA’d player for the Dodgers to trot out while trying to contend.
This is the behavior of a rebuilding team, not a contending one.
Exactly. You could form a brass band with the number of nonentity relievers this FO has recruited over the past three seasons. Their theory of quantity over quality in relievers hasn’t exactly played out well, but clearly they are sticking by the theory just the same.