Left-hander Manny Banuelos has signed a deal with the Fubon Guardians of the Chinese Professional Baseball League, according to several reports out of Mexico (hat tip to the CPBL Stats website). Banuelos had most recently been a member of the Mariners organization, before Seattle released him from his minor league contract at the start of June.
2019 marked Banuelos’ return to the majors, after he hadn’t pitched in the Show since tossing 26 1/3 innings as a rookie for Atlanta in 2015. Those interim years saw Banuelos bounce from the Braves to the Angels to the Dodgers before being dealt to the White Sox in November 2018. Banuelos tossed 50 2/3 innings for Chicago last season, starting eight of 16 appearances and posting a 6.93 ERA, 1.33 K/BB rate, and 7.8 K/9.
Once a very highly touted prospect coming up in the Yankees’ farm system, Banuelos’ career has been stalled by injuries (particularly a Tommy John surgery that kept him from pitching in 2013) and a lack of consistency at Triple-A, let alone during his brief Major League career. Still only 29 years old, Banuelos will now head to the New Taipei City-based Guardians to try and carve out a niche for himself in the CPBL. Chin-lung Hu, Henry Sosa, and Fu-Te Ni are other former big leaguers also playing on Fubon’s roster.
Another overrated former Yankees prospect who the media overhyped in order to potentially create trade interest on behalf of the Yankees, probably the most overrated Yankee pitching prospect of the last decade.
That’s just what the media does.
Nah he was a very good prospect for a reason. He wasn’t overhyped, he just stalled out because of injuries.
If your words were true why did 5 organizations give him a shot? His career never got started because of injuries.
He is right, manny was pretty dang good before he had TJ after that he just wasn’t the same he lost quite a bit of velocity on his fastball before TJ he was in the mid 90s and touching 97-98 after TJ he was like 89-92. Plus he had more injuries than just TJ
Hopefully Puig is next!
Puig wouldn’t get enough money to play in the CPBL.
Teams do have scouts. If they can’t do their part and go about a trade because of “media hype” then that’s there fault which it’s doubtful obviously that’s how they pull a trigger on a trade lol. Look at Jesus Montero, tore it up in the minors, comes to the majors for a cup of coffee as late season call up, does well a team trades for him and was a bust. It happens.
That was a bad reference cause it was another Yankees prospect. A better one you could have used would have been Matt Moore cause he was solid in the playoffs that one year for the rays then never really was good besides maybe one other year when he posted a modest low 4 era
For years all you heard from the little yankees shills and their lemming fan base was “watch out, the killer b’s are coming soon”… more like BS.
It’s not a Yankees thing, it’s a baseball thing.
Prospects get hyped. Move on.
You know you’ve hit the big time when…..
Will make his return to the US from china as a 99c trinket on ebay.
Big swing and a miss!
Betances, Banuelos, and Brackman. Didn’t work out as hoped.
Betances shouldn’t be grouped here considering he’s had success at the major league level. Yeah he’s had his downs and issues but he’s the only one whose hung around in the majors.
It’s not like Hughes, Chamberlain and Kennedy were world beaters, they were solid major leaguers but nowhere near the stars they were projected to be.
Again, the media overhyping the crap out of Yankees prospects. Cashman is a genius at playing the media game.
Do you really think GM’s pay as much attention to media overhyping as you do?
Ignore him, his tin foil hat is on a little tight today and it’s cutting off the circulation to his brain cell.
Exactly what does the media hyping Yankees’ prospects have to do with Cashman being a genius? What did he do?
Unless he’s turning that “hype” into inflated prospect stock and turning it into actual value ie trades, then..you’re speaking about absolute nothingness.
Betances has been dominant for 95% of his MLB career.
Tropico you need some math lessons… guy pitches 26 innings in 2015, then nothing in the majors until 2019 when he threw 50 innings of a shade under 7 era ball.
So if 2/3, or 67%, of his career mlb innings had an era of about 7, I can’t see how you claim he was dominant for 95% of his career…
Unless you meant he dominated the crap pile, he was up near top of the heap there
Pretty sure he is talking about Betances, not Banuelos. His math is correct, Betances dominated for 95% of his career, and could still be a huge bargain for the next team (unless the Mets keep him)
Talking about Betances, you dunce. You just played yourself.
That’s what I’ve been saying all along the Yankees biggest problem is that can’t sign/ draft and develope any decent pitchers. The next group of Garcia, Schmidt, etc better amount to something or Cashman should be gone.