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Minor MLB Transactions: 1/28/19

By Steve Adams | January 28, 2019 at 8:10pm CDT

Here are Monday’s minor moves from around the game…

  • The Cubs have re-signed righty Allen Webster to a minor league contract, Baseball America’s Matt Eddy reports. Webster resurfaced in the big leagues late in the 2018 season with Chicago — his first MLB action since the 2015 season. Webster tossed just three big league innings and managed only 17 minor league frames in an injury-shortened season. Webster posted a 2.64 ERA and 24-to-3 K/BB ratio in those 17 innings, and while most of them came all the way down at Rookie ball as he worked his way back, Cubs internal evaluators were clearly encouraged by what they saw based on bringing Webster to the Majors and now bringing him back to the organization for a second look.
  • Left-hander Chris Nunn announced on Twitter that he’s agreed to a minor league pact with the Rangers. Originally a Padres prospect, the 28-year-old split last season between the Astros organization and the St. Paul Saint of the independent American Association. Nunn turned in a 1.80 ERA and a 23-to-8 K/BB ratio in 20 innings with Houston’s Double-A club last season, and he posted solid numbers on the indy circuit as well. Nunn garnered some attention when Rob Friedman tweeted out some recent bullpen sessions in which the lefty was hitting 97 to 99 mph. The Athletic’s Robert Murray tweets that the Rangers’ plan for Nunn is for him to open the season in Triple-A.
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15 Comments

  1. TripleA

    6 years ago

    Yankees!

    Reply
  2. Mrtwotone

    6 years ago

    Another slow day

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  3. CubsRebsSaints

    6 years ago

    Do the Cubs still have Danny Hultzen? Used to be a 1st or 2nd overall pick years ago?

    Reply
    • ReverieDays

      6 years ago

      Yes.

      Reply
    • msqboxer

      6 years ago

      yeah…the guy hasn’t pitched 30 innings in a year since 2013.

      Reply
      • TheFixIsIn

        6 years ago

        I believe Hultzen was actually OUT of baseball for like a year and a half and is attempting (was attempting) to make a come back last year, I believe.

        Reply
  4. Bert17

    6 years ago

    Saw Webster pitch once. Crazy movement in every direction with velocity, like he was throwing a 94 MPH knuckleball. just seemed like he had no better an idea which way it was going to move than a knuckleballer does. Seemed like he should just try to throw every pitch right down the middle and trust that it would run all the way to the corners.

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    • User 4245925809

      6 years ago

      When Boston 1st got Webster from LA in the Gonzalez deal, he was throwing upper 90’s during ST. It really looked like they had not only managed to dump Carl Crawford’s awful deal in that trade, but get 2 extreme high power and highly talented arms back in DeLaRosa and Webster.. Then reality set in after cpl years that Webster couldn’t/wouldn’t throw anything on the inner half of the plate AND lost several ticks off his FB and RDR was a 2 pitch pitcher who may throw high 90’s, but it was oh-so flat and straight.

      Reply
    • canocorn

      6 years ago

      @Bert;

      Webster’s pitches — as described — remind me of my girlfriend…
      – Crazy movement in every direction with velocity
      – no idea which way it was going to move
      – Seemed like I should just throw every pitch right down the middle
      – When all the beer was gone, trust that she would run all the way to the corner for more

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      • jorge78

        6 years ago

        You are a bad man…..

        Reply
      • teddyj

        6 years ago

        #metoo LMFAO

        Reply
  5. Larry David's Joe Pepitone Jersey

    6 years ago

    Former SP Dillon Gee retired, according to social media.

    twitter.com/DillonGee35/status/1090078973499973633…

    Reply
  6. bobtillman

    6 years ago

    Texas is going to need more than a Nunn this year…they’ll need a whole convent……

    ya, ya, ya it’s better than some of the Dillon Gee jokes…….

    Reply
  7. msqboxer

    6 years ago

    Again….the Cubs are the home of misfit and broken down pitching prospects.

    Reply
    • Mikel Grady

      6 years ago

      And 2016 World Series trophy

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