The Rockies have claimed right-hander Jesus Tinoco off waivers from the Marlins, per an announcement from both teams. Colorado traded Tinoco to Miami less than a month ago, receiving righty Chad Smith in return. The Rox will now have both right-handers in their organization. Tinoco has been optioned to the Rockies’ alternate training site.
Tinoco, 25, appeared in three games for the Marlins and tossed five hitless, scoreless innings. He walked three batters and picked up another three strikeouts along the way. Tinoco also logged 36 innings in the Colorado bullpen in 2019 and sports a career 4.17 ERA in his 41 frames. However, control problems have plagued Tinoco, and he appears rather fortunate to have maintained an ERA that respectable. The righty has averaged 5.5 walks and 2.6 home runs per nine innings in the big leagues, leading to an eye-popping 7.40 FIP and a 5.68 xFIP.
Originally acquired by the Rockies from the Blue Jays in the Troy Tulowitzki blockbuster, Tinoco has never missed bats or induced grounders at a particularly strong rate in the minors. The control issues that have emerged in the big leagues weren’t present throughout the bulk of his minor league career, however. Overall, Tinoco has a 4.71 ERA with 7.3 K/9 against 2.8 BB/9 in parts of eight minor league seasons.
Jeff Bridich takes a lot of heat for his GM skills, rightly so in many cases, but this was a nice bit of thievery. Even if neither Smith nor Tinoco turn into anything, this was a nice return for basically loaning a player for a couple of weeks.
Amazing how he just STOLE a bad middle reliever prospect from Miami.
It’s almost like it makes up for wasting over 100 million dollars on Wade Davis, Jake McGee, and Bryan Shaw. Then it hits you! He also wasted about 50 million more on Gerardo Parra and Daniel Murphy!
What a GM!
You forgot Ian Desmond. Or was that the previous GM?
No Ian was another Jeffrey debacle. My error
Colorado kills careers.
I never said anything about this making up for his mistakes. In fact I did the opposite if you bothered to read my whole comment. Regardless of his past mistakes, I think he did good here.
If you disagree, so be it. I’ll still sleep well tonight.
Tinoco was supposed to be one of the main pieces of the Tulo trade. So pretty he just reminded us that he botched that trade as well. God he’s terrible
Tinoco was never a main piece of the Tulo trade. Jeff Hoffman was the main piece. Miguel Castro was the secondary piece. Jose Reyes was included to offset money. Tinoco was basically the lotto ticket throw in.
BTW, you are linked to the wrong Chad Smith on B/R.
The one the Rickies have is a fringe player at the very most. Tinoco has some upside.
so basically they let the Marlins borrow him while they juggled roster spots. that’s an absolute win.
Tinoco sounds like it should be the name for a chain of gas stations.
Or a furniture store in Albuquerque, oh wait, that was Tampico
Isn’t Tampico a beverage company?
I thought that was a bum trade even though Tinoco has not developed fully. Getting him back makes it less poor. And hey, as sickening as the bullpen is, it can’t hurt having Tinoco back to improve it eventually, even if slightly.