The Giants have claimed right-hander Andrew Moore off waivers from the Rays, according to Andrew Baggarly of The Athletic (Twitter link). Moore will report to San Francisco’s Double-A affiliate in Richmond. To create a 40-man roster spot for Moore, the Giants have also designated infielder Breyvic Valera for assignment.
Valera’s stint on the Giants’ 40-man roster has come to an end before he appeared in a game with the team, which acquired Valera in January when he was designated by the Orioles. In 24 games at Triple-A this season, Valera has posted a .257/.397/.338 slash line, including an impressive 16-to-10 BB:K ratio. The 27-year-old Valera has made only 86 MLB plate appearances and has produced a .529 OPS across parts of the last two seasons, which he spent with the Cardinals, Dodgers, and Orioles.
Moore has appeared in only 11 games in the Major Leagues — nine starts with the Mariners in 2017 — posting a 5.34 ERA in those games. Triple-A has not treated him well this season, as Moore has conceded 9 home runs in 17 1/3 innings while walking as many batters as he has struck out. Moore, a former second-round selection of the Mariners, was recently DFA’d by the Rays, but will hope to make a home in San Francisco. He is just 24 years old and is not far removed from successful seasons in the minors in 2016 and 2017.
It would be cool if MLBTR included a brief scouting report on these largely unknown guys.. we are one click away from knowing his stats. I’d rather read about his repertoire. Fireballer? Junk pitcher? Hard slider? Slow curve? Just a thought.
Or you could stop being lazy and look it up yourself! Half of these writers don’t even get paid. Geesh, talk about being lazy…
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On a pc that’s easy but it is a bit more annoying for a mobile user. Still not hard but it’s not a earth shatteringly unreasonable suggestion either.
Go to fangraphs. Search Andrew Moore. It’s not a completely unreasonable suggestion but it’s probably a bit too much to do for every waiver claim.
Antibelt, your logic eludes me. You just told me it is easy to look up, and in next sentence told me it is too much work for these writers. Huh. Hope your baseball knowledge exceeds your ability to reason. But like jbigz said, that might be a little much for every waiver claim. I can vibe with that.
Giants fans be salty these days.
Benito Santiago to be coaxed out of retirement soon.
the Orioles have some affinity to claiming DFA’d pitchers i swear.
The Giants claimed him, not the Orioles
The orioles haven’t claimed many pitchers this season so it doesn’t really fit that either. Armstrong is the only one. So I’m not sure he thought the orioles claimed him or he didn’t know what the word “affinity” meant.
The Giants have some affinity for claiming DFA’d *insert position here*
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