As had been anticipated, the Indians have purchased the contract of Hanley Ramirez. To open a 40-man spot, the club designated righty Ben Taylor for assignment.
Ramirez is back in the bigs for the first time since he was cut loose by the Red Sox last year. He’s expected to serve as the team’s primary designated hitter to open the season.
Taylor, 26, turned in 57 1/3 innings of 2.51 ERA ball with 11.0 K/9 and 1.4 BB/9 last year at Triple-A. He also ran up eight strikeouts against one walk (but allowed two home runs) in his six MLB frames. Clearly, the Indians did not anticipate that sort of performance carrying forward into the future.
The Indians also announced several injured list placements, all of which were known in advance. Shortstop Francisco Lindor, second baseman Jason Kipnis, and outfielder Bradley Zimmer are all on the shelf to begin the season.
Taylor deserves to be picked up based on that stash alone.
I was hoping he’d make the roster because of it, but the results haven’t been there other than in the upper minors. Hopefully he clears waivers.
Someone will claim him.
It’s the time of year a guy like him is most likely to clear. But he has an option and I think someone will claim him just to stache him in AAA
I hope your use of “stache” there was intentional
It was 🙂
Yeah upper minors depth guys with options usually find a home