The Brewers have claimed southpaw Donnie Hart off waivers from the Dodgers, per a club announcement. Milwaukee moved righty Bobby Wahl to the 60-day injured list to create roster space.
Hart was optioned to Triple-A to begin his tenure with the Brewers organization. He’ll wait there for an opportunity to arise. Hart had been claimed in the middle of camp by the Los Angeles organization but obviously wasn’t a key part of their plans.
Since breaking into the majors with an eye-opening 2016 debut — one earned run in 18 1/3 innings — Hart has seen his results decline. He managed a 3.71 ERA in 43 2/3 frames in the following season, but the peripherals weren’t terribly promising. Last year, he was knocked around in twenty appearances — a dozen earned runs on 31 hits with an ugly 13:12 K/BB ratio — and ended up spending most of the year at Triple-A.
Hart did continue dominate at the highest level of the minors. He has been tough on pre-MLB batters at all levels, but has been especially excellent at Triple-A, where he owns a 2.40 ERA with 10.4 K/9 and 1.9 BB/9 over 56 1/3 innings. If he can find a way to translate those K/BB numbers to the majors, and continue to generate groundballs as he has (52.6% in the big leagues), the soft-tossing 28-year-old could be an interesting pen piece.
So they end up with both guys from the Dodger’ transaction, the other being the designated and released Fields.
Surprised the Chokees didn’t claim him. They need all the warm bodies they can get.
with what money?
Donnie Hart is making 555k, 555,000. Every team could have found a way to fit that into the payroll if they wanted to. Try again.
Does he make that if he is in the minors?
No. He makes the same salary as every other minor leaguer on the 40 man (somewhere around 60K I believe) and gets a prorated portion of that 555K when he’s up in the big leagues.
Stfu Donnie
This is not Nam.
Donnie you’re outta your element!
Does he wear his sunglasses at night, or is that just Corey?
Jesse Chavez does now
That’s Corey but now I can break out my vintage Hart shirsey.
Low risk….not a bad signing.
I predict he’ll be this year’s Oliver Drake, cept from the left side
Hate the Drake!!!
Interesting, as I see that their Triple A team released Danny Reynolds a pitcher they moved up from Double A.