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Orioles To Sign Wade LeBlanc

By Steve Adams | January 28, 2020 at 7:22pm CDT

The Orioles have agreed to a minor league contract with veteran left-hander Wade LeBlanc, tweets ESPN’s Jeff Passan. He’ll be in Major League camp during Spring Training and would stand to earn an $800K base salary upon cracking the MLB roster.

Baltimore represents a prime location for a 35-year-old veteran on this type of contract to make a legitimate bid for a roster spot. The Orioles have already traded away Dylan Bundy this winter, leaving their rotation with a composition of John Means, Alex Cobb (health permitting) and journeyman Asher Wojciechowski. The Orioles’ only other rotation moves this winter have been to sign former Twins prospect Kohl Stewart to a big league deal and to select righty Brandon Bailey from GM Mike Elias’ former Astros organization in the Rule 5 Draft. Other internal candidates for starting gigs include right-hander David Hess, who struggled substantially in 2019, and left-hander Keegan Akin, who has yet to make his MLB debut.

It’s the sort of woeful rotation mix one would expect from an organization that is more intent on securing the first overall pick in the 2021 draft than on winning games in the upcoming season. And while that may not be good news for O’s fans, it does provide an avenue for a veteran like LeBlanc to seek out a bounceback opportunity.

LeBlanc was harmed as much as any starter in the game with last year’s juiced ball, as he yielded a staggering 2.1 homers per nine innings pitched and saw his ERA balloon by nearly two full runs over its 2018 levels (5.71 in ’19 versus 3.72 in ’18). In spite of the poor bottom-line run prevention (or lack thereof), the veteran southpaw still maintained similar K/BB tendencies to the ones he showed in a solid three-year stretch that preceded the 2019 season.

From 2016-18, LeBlanc tossed 292 innings (35 starts, 66 relief appearances) and pitched to a 3.91 ERA with 7.2 K/9, 2.1 BB/9 and 1.4 HR/9 between the Mariners and the Pirates. His soft-tossing arsenal will face a tough task in the American League East if he does land on the big league roster, as he’ll be moving from the spacious T-Mobile Park and a division that generally skews a bit more toward the pitcher-friendly side of things to the cozier Camden Yards and hitter-friendly AL East. The lack of competition for a starting spot in Baltimore, though, should give LeBlanc a legitimate chance to land a roster spot this spring.

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  1. spinach

    1 year ago

    Nice signing, upside, was rather good couple years ago.

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  2. thorshair

    1 year ago

    The former Yankees great

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  3. Long Duc Dong

    1 year ago

    They didn’t want to. It was just there turn.

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  4. pburns65

    1 year ago

    gary thorne will tout him as an early cy young candidate

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    • dynamite drop in monty

      1 year ago

      Ugh I read this in his voice

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      • duffy126

        1 year ago

        I hope you pronounced his name incorrectly, too

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        • dynamite drop in monty

          1 year ago

          Lol nice touch

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    • mstrchef13

      1 year ago

      While mispronouncing his name repeatedly.

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  5. Rsox

    1 year ago

    O’a need depth, this about as depth as it gets.

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  6. sadosfan

    1 year ago

    I bet he has an awesome accent

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    • sadosfan

      1 year ago

      His nickname should be gambit.

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  7. coldbeer

    1 year ago

    Over/under total wins for the Os in 2020…12.5.

    What you taking???

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    • McNulty

      1 year ago

      Over/under coldbeer’s IQ…12.5.

      What you taking???

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      • AssumeFactsNotInEvidence

        1 year ago

        Cold beer once lost a game of checkers to a monkey

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  8. BirdBelters.com

    1 year ago

    LeBlanc is a veteran that will give us stability through innings. He can go deep in games and if he pitches well, we’ll flip him for some young flyer prospects.

    Cashner got us two International prospects last year. A Venezuelan SS and an a nice Outfielder , Elio Prado, who is on some Top30 lists for the O’s.

    LeBlanc is worth a shot.

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  9. Briffle

    1 year ago

    800k seems real low for a guy that’s been around as long as he has.

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  10. GoRav114

    1 year ago

    Great value, surprised he couldn’t score a 2-3 million major league deal.

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    • AssumeFactsNotInEvidence

      1 year ago

      A 36 year old with an ERA around 6? I’m not surprised that deal was not available.

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      • jorge78

        1 year ago

        He’s just turned 35 and next year is considered his age 35 season…..

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        • AssumeFactsNotInEvidence

          1 year ago

          He is 35 years old and 175 Days, Jorge!

          Let me ask you a question.

          Will major leagues teams be playing baseball on August 7th? Wade LeBlanc will turn 36 that day. Better luck next time, Hip hip Jorge!

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  11. Amanda2019

    1 year ago

    thank you baltimore you just gave boston atleast 15 more wins this season

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  12. moody

    1 year ago

    He’ll crack the rotation, but a bounce back? Has any pitcher ever bounced back in Baltimore?

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    • Moneyballer

      1 year ago

      You bounce worse on that team. I see a full season statline of around 7-12 with a 4.56 era as being a moderately successful campaign all things considered.

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  13. manrock

    1 year ago

    As Boston finishes 3rd in that division

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  14. Moneyballer

    1 year ago

    LeBlanc keeps LeBlancin along! (I’ll see myself out)

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  15. D0m

    1 year ago

    I mean they some how got two very solid 17 year old international prospects for Cashner so why not? I guesses dumbrowski inst a GM anymore tho.

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  16. LosPobres1904

    1 year ago

    Damn he’s still around?

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  17. LosPobres1904

    1 year ago

    Damn he’s still around?

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