The Yankees have claimed righty Cory Gearrin from the Mariners, according to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic (via Twitter). In a corresponding move, the New York club announced that it has released fellow right-hander Domingo Acevedo.
Gearrin is a well-established hurler who has seen action in eight MLB campaigns. He has long been effective despite uninspiring peripherals, with a career 3.59 ERA. That’s much the story again in 2019, as he owns a 3.92 ERA in 41 1/3 innings while carrying 8.5 K/9 against 4.6 BB/9 and a 46.6% groundball rate.
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As we explained in our recent listing of possible August waiver candidates — which included Gearrin and others — teams have a variety of possible motivations for exposing players to waivers at this time of year. With respect to a player such as Gearrin, who wasn’t dealt at the deadline, it’s likely the club considered factors such as salary savings, roster space for younger players, and a desire to allow a veteran a chance to play in a postseason race.
Acevedo, 25, has at times been considered a significant prospect. But he has had some health issues and was moved into a relief role this year. Evidently, the Yanks didn’t really love what they saw. Acevedo has maintained 9.4 K/9 against 2.4 BB/9 in his 51 2/3 total innings over 32 appearances, but has also allowed 11 long balls and 4.35 earned runs per nine in that span.
What’s the point of claiming all these relievers
Probably to prevent anyone from getting them? They have no room.
Because their starters are terrible and they need as many arms as they can get.
They just need to manipulate the roster one more week when it expands to 28. Then they will have a September Invitational for the last of the playoff spots and see what shakes out,
Still 40 this year. Next year goes to the 26/28 man rosters
Rosters go to 40 this year
I’m never getting used to that
Ellis, you have hit the nail on the head. If the cant get their starter into the sixth inning without putting then too far behind, then they need four full innings of relief if not more. OPen your eyes, Yankees fans, and you will see that the Yankees WILL NOT play the Orioles in the playoffs. Best to plan ahead.
Yankees have the best record in baseball against teams with a .500 record or better lol
A’s just swept them this week. Lols
You win some you lose some
That must be a common refrain among the lame Dodger media- my California buddy (uncharacteristically) made the same crack. When I woke up Saturday and saw the score and five dingers I thought they had played the Orioles…
Gotta catch ’em all.
Un-flippin believable Dipoto … are you kidding me?! Had no clue Seattle put him on waivers. This was one of our RP’s that Seattle should have gotten a return for prior to the deadline. Are the Yankees Dipoto’s King Pin?! Good grief! No reason to question why Seattle now sits at 17 years without a playoff presence! This is our life as a Mariner fan.
I’m seriously due to start rooting for a new team. This is just insane!
They would not have gotten much for him but some A ball long shot prospect having a good year is better than nothing.
They should sign Acevado then. He would be the equivalent of that A-Ball long shot.
Personally, I don’t get giving up on Acevado from the Yankees POV. Sell him off before the Rule 5 deadline if need be but don’t waive him for nothing.
maybe the m’s sign him in a 2019 version of a post deadline trade.
I encourage you to root for another team, fans like you don’t need to bother rooting for a rebuilding team because clearly you can’t comprehend what the team is trying to do. You should probably root for whatever team Jon Heyman does.
Ha harsh!
There’s a difference between rooting for a rebuilding team, and rooting for a team that has little hope of being good in the next five years. It’s difficult to root for a team like the Mariners, or the Pirates from 1992-2013, when they show no signs of turning it around and being competitive. If there’s no hope, why bother.
Are you Jon Heyman?
Yes. I’m Jon Heyman. That’s why I’m commenting on sports sites. It’s just what I love to do in my free time.
You don’t think there’s hope? They have a ton of talent due to arrive by 2022 and most of those top prospects will be debuting before then.
Dipoto will probably trade it all away to acquire several past-their-prime players. Honestly though, I don’t know very much about the Mariners’ farm system off the top of my head past the players that they acquired in the Edwin Diaz trade, so there may be hope. Just because there’s potential in a farm system though doesn’t mean it will all come to fruition.
I hear the Marlins could use a few new fans…
Gearrin is terrible, what you think he’d have brought back? Get real here, if he could’ve gotten literally anything for him, JD would have moved him.
Lol, the guy is a free agent after this year and due 2 appearance bonuses very soon.
Seattle saved half a million and will let a young pitcher take his appearances.
What are you so upset about? You think trader Jerry didn’t try to trade him?
They couldn’t get anything so he they saved a little money, relax.
If he had any trade value the mariners wouldn’t of picked him up off of wavers. He was worthless in San Francisco and no better for Seattle.
The NY Mets could’ve made him their closer.
Makes sense. Don’t have the starters pile up on relievers.
Lol based on his numbers I think I prefer him to Happ!!
What’s the deal w the Acevedo release? I know he was a sliding prospect but he was fairly well regarded as recently as last season. I’m surprised to see no bottom feeders claim the guy unless there’s an injury I’m not aware of.
He was gone after this year anyway. His velocity dipped after a move to the pen.
Can’t keep him on the 40 man anymore and he must of been so bad that no one would even trade a lottery ticket for him.
Hes always been up and down, strange pitcher. But with his size in sure he’ll get several more shots to see if he finds his velocity again
what i read injuries have moved him from starter to reliever and still walks a lot
Fall from grace for Domingo Acevedo. Apparently his near triple-digit velocity had greatly fallen off in recent years. Never made a top 100 list, but he was always a guy on the fringes of that prospect caliber.
Good luck Yankees, gearrin is trash. He was terrible as a giant and just as bad with the mariners.
His number absolutely disagree. Career 3.5 era and same this year
Every Fan says the same thing about accumulating Players,get over yourselves.Its about Building depth in your Organization and actually have a Contest of earning a Roster Spot,the more the Marrier,with working with a Guy with the possibility of getting his full potential plus it’s cheap and good Business.