The Blue Jays are showing interest in several veteran relievers, including right-hander Adam Warren, per Robert Murray and Emily Waldon of The Athletic (Twitter link). Waldon tweets that Warren currently has offers from multiple teams in hand and is weighing his options.
Warren, 31, hasn’t been connected to many clubs this winter. It surely doesn’t help the righty that he missed time early in the season due to a back strain and then struggled following a trade from the Yankees to the Mariners. Warren posted a respectable 3.74 ERA in 21 2/3 frames with Seattle but saw his strikeout rate plummet from nearly 29 percent to to just 15.8 percent after changing teams. Warren’s average fastball dipped from 93 mph in 2017 to 91.9 mph in 2018, though he gained some velocity as the season wore on, and it’s possible that the early back troubles hindered his velocity to an extent.
Still, the sum of Warren’s efforts between the two clubs last year resulted in a 3.14 ERA, 9.1 K/9, 3.5 BB/9, 1.05 HR/9 and a 37.6 percent ground-ball rate in 51 2/3 innings. His 10.4 percent swinging-strike rate and 31.5 percent opponents’ chase rate were actually the best marks he’d turned in since 2014. Warren benefited from a sky-high 84.4 percent strand rate that he’s quite unlikely to replicate, but fielding-independent metrics such as FIP (3.94) and SIERA (3.84) still felt he was a solid, if unspectacular bullpen piece. He also has a history as a multi-inning reliever and has worked as a starter in the past, which one would think is all the more appealing to clubs around the league.
Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins said early this month that the “bulk” of the team’s focus between then and Opening Day would be on pitching additions. It’s not clear whether Warren is weighing multiple MLB or minor league offers, though Atkins noted at the time of his comment that he wasn’t ruling out adding another player on a big league deal.
Wish the braves were in this mix. He’d be an improvement in my opinion. Which he was a lefty though
Exactly what I was thinking. 3 million a year and hope for the best!
Indians and Cardinals should be looking at him. Cardinals have a decent bullpen but adding Warren can add consistency. Indians dont really have much outside of Brad Hand.
Warren is a bit versatile too. Can give you multiple innings
Once, twice, three times a Yankee.
+1
Cashman loves Warren and he does well for the most part as a Yankee. Not many can pitch okay never mind well for the Yankees. I hope he ends up back in New York.
They would just trade him for the third time. LOL! I would like to see him back in pinstripes but Boone never pitched him much. Don’t know why Boone didn’t like to use him.
What’s there to weigh unless they’re minor league deals. He needs to get in sooner rather than later, especially after last years minor struggles
I would love warren back as he’s a good multi inning man out of the pen who has late inning experience
Honestly, with this down market, I’d love to see the O’s pick him up to flip him at the deadline
That would be very smart. Baltimore’s version of lotto tickets. Baltimore would get more good young kids
I doubt Warren signs with them, more likely he returns to the Yankees or
Don’t leave us hanging.
I doubt Warren signs with them, more likely he returns to the Yankees, or joins the Indians, Red Sox, Twins, or Braves.
Sure….why not. Let’s go Blue Jays.
Tulo looks to be hungry and in-shape. Watched some of the game today. Took his Spring Training game serious. Looked like a leader because he IS a leader.
He hit that opposite field home run with ease and was pumped for it too !
I liked it. Considering the character assassination the Blue Jays and media committed against Tulo along with the Blue Jays acquiring Galvis, I hope nothing for the best for Tulowitzki.
And what character assassination would that be? Please clarify. Look this office has made some bone head moves but I don’t buy that fact that they did him dirty.
For two years he couldn’t stay healthy. When asked about his future role with the team he stated, “I’m a shortstop, if they have someone better, I’ll pack my bags and go home.”
As far as I can tell from reports (because I wasn’t in the room) the team sat him down and where honest with him about where the team was headed and his potential playing time based on his injury history.
They released him, rather than watch him pout on the bench all year, payed in full, and he signed with a contender.
Seems like this is the ideal scenario for Tulo. I don’t think they could’ve treated him any better after the comments he made last year.
The character assassination was when the media, through the team that owns the media, portrayed Tulo as a me-first, selfish player.
They released him and decided to pay $4 mil to Galvis and announced him as the starter over Gurriel. However, Gurriel was going to start over Tulo if Tulo was healthy. Despite paying $20-mil and $14-mil the next two years they opted to get rid of him. It may make sense to you, it does not make sense to me.
Tulowitzki is a disciplined defender and a leader. Would have been a great influence on Vlad and Bichette, the future SS in the eyes of management. Bichette is an errors machine and could have used Tulo’s mentoring.
It’s clear management doesn’t see Gurriel as the future SS. That meant they could have had Tulo play another year. The team already picked up Sogard. They aren’t going anywhere this year and could have gotten by on that along with the AAA guys. I’m sure Tulo was told Gurriel isn’t the future and that sparked his comments.
You see pouting, I see competing. Tulo proved yesterday he’s a competitor.
JDGout – What part of his comments were bad? Way to come out and grab upvotes for saying nothing with nothing to back your claim.
It was a spring training homer. Calm down. Saying he’d pack his bags doesn’t sound like a leader to me.
When he said he’d go home if one of the young guys was better than him instead of switching positions. He didn’t handle the situation like a professional at all.
Shane – took you two tries to come up with that gem. I guess a guy trying in Spring Training isn’t cool in your books. Loser mentality.
JD – Tulo wasn’t going to play 2B. He wasn’t going to play 3B. He wasn’t going to play 1B. And the Blue Jays, I am 100% certain, told Tulo and his agent that Gurriel wasn’t the SS of the future. Thus, Galvis. When management tells you a guy is better than you and that guy isn’t the future at that position, I’d probably say I should pack up and go home too because I’m finished as a ballplayer.
The comments make perfect sense now that we’ve seen what has transpired. The comments aren’t as bad as you’re making it out to be. Then again, you drink the media koolaid so I expect that from you.
Bro, he literally said if don’t start im going home. That is a child sorry.I agree see ya Tulo you couldn’t preform at all. Your bat was bad, your health was bad, and it ended up being your attitude was bad. Good leadership and defensive when he was there, bout it. But clearly wasn’t good enough in the end
Red Sox should pick him up, Warren is a very solid addition.to any BP.
They really should but man they are avoiding spending money at this point like the pox
Yeah, but they are $11.95 million over the luxury tax. However, some teams just keep spending big even when they are in luxury tax Hell.
In headline: “multiple offers” and “among interested teams.”
In article: only one interested team mentioned.
Is this how you usually roll? Yeah, I’m new here.
It was probably written that way since the Blue Jays are the only team to have publicly stated via their management of their interest in him.
I thought the Yankees chimed in a few weeks ago?
He’d be a great pick up for the Rays. He’d probably start in the minors but would have an early opportunity, with the way they use openers he could be very useful. Just to keep him away from New York.
Jays (aka Shapiro and Atkins) have developed a new system for rebuilding a team they have torn down over the past three years. The new system is get rid of all your veteran players (the team leaders) and replace them with all the other teams cast offs. And now Atkins says between now and opening day the plan is to build up the bull pen which means getting more players no one else wants. Boston and Yankees will be battling for 1st place in the east, Jays will be battling for last place with Baltimore,
Jays fan expect more of this for at least two more years then maybe the owners will say enough to Shapiro and Atkins when their contracts are up.