The latest minor moves from around baseball…
- The Diamondbacks have signed right-hander Trevor Clifton to a minor league contract with an invitation to MLB spring training, Bob Nightengale of USA Today tweets. Clifton, now 24, had been with the Cubs since they used a 12th-round pick on him in 2013. He was the organization’s minor league pitcher of the year in 2016, when he dominated high-A ball with a 2.72 ERA/3.05 FIP and 9.76 K/9 against 3.1 BB/9 over 119 innings, and then ranked as FanGraphs’ eighth-best Cubs prospect before the next season. Clifton’s stock has dropped since then, though, thanks in part to his struggles in Triple-A ball last year. He managed a less-than-stellar 5.18 ERA/6.57 FIP with 7.64 K/9 and 4.55 BB/9 through 99 innings in 2019.
Im surprised the Angels didn’t sign this guy.
Angel is just stupid, they removed any dought of how dumb the whole angel team is run.
Trevor Clifton, wasn’t that Bill Murray’s Las Vegas lounge singer character on SNL? Maybe that was Tony Clifton… At least you have a Cubs connection there.
Not Bill Murray, Andy Kaufman was Tony Clifton. Bill was “Nick the lounge singer”.
Ahhh… You are correct.
decent depth. still young and posted okay enough numbers in AAA given the juiced ball. dont see him cracking their SP mix though.
Tony Clifton was Andy Kaufman or Bob Zamuda.
Clifton did series of shows to help fund victims of hurricane Katrina.
This player released by Cubs should be washing produce
Too bad Kaufman was already many years gone when the Clifton tour happened. Zamuda was good but not close to Kaufman