The Hiroshima Carp of the NPB have announced the signing of righty Tayler Scott, as relayed in a tweet from Patrick Newman of NPBtracker.com (link). Scott, who is expected to serve in middle relief with the Carp, will receive a $525K salary and a $175K signing bonus.
A native of Johannesburg, South Africa, Scott made his MLB debut in 2019 with the Mariners after a seven-year minor league career in the Cubs, Brewers, and Rangers orgs. A rough sample of appearances (9.39 ERA in 7.2 innings) foreshadowed his placement on waivers, where he was scooped up by the pitching-needy Orioles.
Things went even more poorly in Baltimore, unfortunately, with the 27-year-old allowing 18 earned runs in 8.2 innings of relief. Still, the 6’3 righty has managed a 3.86 ERA over the course of his minor league career, armed with a sinking fastball that sits around 94 mph and a slider that elicited a respectable 36.1 percent whiff rate in Scott’s brief MLB tenure.
Good for him or anyone who seizes on an opportunity.
A worm-burning pitcher with imperfect control that was able to (eventually) hold his own in AAA should be decent enough in the NPB. For the international-ness of baseball, I hope he finds himself and can act as a representative of South African baseball.
Racist
Seriously? Are you just looking to race bait?
You looked at the picture, right?
May I ask what you find racist about my comment? From my perspective, I made a description of his player profile and a reference to his nation being very unrepresented in baseball (he’s probably one of only a handful-at-most South Africans to play in the MLB or NPB and the only one I’ve ever heard of). I see nothing that could be reasonably taken as a qualitative comment on his ethnicity or race.
If I inadvertently said something inappropriate, I apologize and wish to understand exactly what it was so that I may not repeat that mistake.
I wonder if he will get…Diplomatic Immunity?
If he joins the Diplomatic Corp…..
Well, he did join the Hiroshima Carp. Close enough.
“just been revoked”
Haha
Good luck Tayler!
id love to see this guy succeed over in Japan. the more countries represented in the Majors the more interesting.