Here are the latest minor transactions from around baseball:
- The White Sox have signed left-hander Justin Nicolino to a minor league contract, according to Roster Roundup. The 27-year-old Nicolino’s back to work just a few days after the Twins released him. He opened the season with Minnesota’s top minors affiliate and struggled over 19 1/3 innings (four appearances, three starts), notching a 5.12 ERA with 6.05 K/9 and 3.72 BB/9. Major league success has largely eluded Nicolino, once a quality prospect whom Toronto selected in the second round of the 2010 draft. Since then, the strikeout-challenged Nicolino has posted a 4.65 ERA with 3.8 K/9 and 2.7 BB/9 in 201 1/3 big league innings – all of which came with the Marlins from 2015-17. He has managed somewhat better production across 432 2/3 Triple-A frames, though, with a 4.01 ERA and 5.4 K/9 against 2.3 BB/9.
Oh look Sox again are garbage picking through the trash from other MLB teams curbs.
SELL THE TEAM ALREADY, REINSDORF!!!!
Overreact much? Every team signs players like this to play in the minors at least once per month in during the season, if not more.
@mjc71
Yes, because the Sox are only 1 reliever away from having an elite pen. Pretty sure the only reason they’re even looking at him is to attempt to save the few arms worth saving in their pen. The pen is already taxed because the starters are lucky to make it through 5 innings any given day.
The team’s still in rebuild mode, bud. The only reason the Sox won’t lose 100 again is 2 other division teams are in an even deeper rebuild.
I laugh when people scream for Reinsdorf to sell the team. Should he? Yes. But the only way he parts with the team is when they get pried from his cold dead hands. He won’t sell the team while he’s alive.