The Yankees announced Wednesday that they’ve claimed right-hander Ryan Dull off outright waivers from the Giants. In order to open a spot on the 40-man roster, right-hander Brady Lail was designated for assignment.
Dull, 29, was designated for assignment by both Bay Area teams in the span of nine days this month. The longtime Athletics reliever never made it to the Majors with the Giants in his extremely brief time with the organization, as San Francisco optioned him to Triple-A Sacramento immediately upon acquiring him.
Dull has been up and down with Oakland over the past five seasons, pitching to a collective 4.08 ERA with 8.7 K/9 against 2.6 BB/9 in 167 2/3 innings of work. The right-hander’s best year came with the 2016 A’s, when he logged 74 1/3 frames of 2.42 ERA ball, but he’s been hampered by knee and shoulder injuries since that time. In a total of 76 1/3 big league innings since Opening Day 2017, Dull has posted an underwhelming 5.66 ERA with a 74-to-27 K/BB ratio. He’s averaged just over 11 strikeouts and 2.3 walks per nine innings pitched throughout his minor league career.
Lail, 25, was the Yankees’ 18th-round pick back in 2012 and made his MLB debut just last week, tossing 2 2/3 innings but allowing three runs (two earned) on five hits. He’s been solid out of the bullpen across three minor league levels this year, as evidenced by a 2.79 ERA with 11.8 K/9 and 2.8 BB/9 in 42 innings of work.
They signed Dull? That’s some exciting news!!
Well played
Baltimore gave the Yankees quite the fight today.
The Os looked a lot better today than they have been.
When a major league gets credit for putting up a good fight, that’s when it’s not really a major league team.
The O’s continued play hard and didn’t do anything stupid, like throw at Gleyber. They are a well coached team and I wish them well. #respect
It was either him or the former Pirate Josh Sharpless
Boring.
Hang in there opening kickoff is Sept 5th.
That was a Dull story.
You can do better than that!
The Yankees are getting creative with the loss of the waiver period trade deadline. With a number of 60 day IL players set to return soon, rather than have to expose any of their good or decent minor leaguers to waivers when the 60 day IL guys return they are just recycling fresh arms from the waiver wire. Look for Dull to be waived again in the next week or two.
Exactly
It works well when they need guys to eat innings when an opener is used. I hope one of these guys can stick. Luis Cessa could use time down at AAA to pitch regularly and gain some consistency.
Cessa is out of options.
Agreed, but he’s out of options. He’ll also be a casualty when Seve and Betances return…
Meh.
I’m surprised they designated Lail for this Dull guy. 2.79 ERA with 11.8 K/9 and 2.8 BB/9 in the minors this year are pretty solid stats. Wouldn’t be surprised to see someone pick Lail up quickly. Red Sox should grab him!