A couple minor moves from around the sport…
- The Twins have signed infielder Wilfredo Tovar to a minor league contract, per an announcement from Nate Rowan, the director of communications for their Triple-A team in Rochester. The Minnesota organization’s already familiar to Tovar, who spent 2016 in Rochester, though he didn’t play a game for the Twins that year. Tovar has also garnered minor league experience with the Mets, Cardinals and Angels. The 28-year-old has picked up 110 plate appearances in the majors (including 88 with the Angels last season), but he owns an unimposing .188/.241/.238 line without a home run in the bigs. While Tovar has also put up below-average offensive marks in the minors, he is known as a quality defender.
- The Mets outrighted hurler Stephen Nogosek to Triple-A Syracuse after he cleared waivers, Anthony DiComo of MLB.com tweets. The club designated him for assignment earlier this week. The right-handed Nogosek, who will turn 25 next month, joined the Mets as part of the package they received from the Red Sox for reliever Addison Reed in 2017. Nogosek reached the Triple-A and major league levels for the first time in 2019. Although he logged encouraging results in Syracuse, evidenced by a 1.15 ERA with 8.62 K/9 over 31 1/3 innings, he walked almost four batters per nine and was the beneficiary of a 2.6 home run-to-fly-ball rate that looks out of whack in light of his 37.5 groundball mark. Nogosek wasn’t nearly as successful in a 6 2/3-inning cup of coffee as a member of the Mets, with whom he yielded eight earned runs.
Good AAA stats.,should find a job. He’s a RP in the making
Mets have done a good job unloading their terrible relievers from the last few years. They still have to get rid of this guy, Familia, and Sewald, and then start bringing in better quality relievers. Kela and Heder would be a nice start.
Familia will probably be fine this year. last year was such an aberration
He does have a job. What are you talking about?
And if you’d read, you’d notice he does have a job.
The Mets should look into bringing back the player they originally traded for Nogosek, Addison Reed, if he still can pitch at a high level.
Reed was topping out at 90-91 MPH last year when the Twins finally gave up.