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Cubs Return Rule 5 Pick Gray Fenter To Orioles

By Connor Byrne | March 12, 2021 at 4:40pm CDT

The Cubs have returned Rule 5 Draft pick Gray Fenter to the Orioles, per an announcement from Baltimore. The O’s have assigned the right-hander to major league spring training as a reserve.

Fenter was a seventh-round pick of the Orioles in 2015 who joined the franchise for a massive bonus ($1MM) relative to his draft position. While Fenter has since pitched to a 3.21 ERA and struck out over 10 batters per nine in 230 minor league innings, the 25-year-old hasn’t climbed above the Single-A level yet. He also underwent Tommy John surgery in 2016, wiping out that season and a large portion of the next year for him.

Fenter had an excellent year during the most recent minors season, 2019, when he logged a 1.81 ERA in 94 1/3 innings in Single-A. FanGraphs’ Eric Longenhagen wrote last December that Fenter “sat 91-93 and touched 95” that season.

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  1. Dorothy_Mantooth

    1 year ago

    Not enough advanced baseball experience to carry him on the team all season…makes sense

    Reply
    • PeteWard8

      1 year ago

      First name is spelled wrong. should be Gary and not Gray.

      Reply
      • Dorothy_Mantooth

        1 year ago

        It sounds like a car name: Cubs return Gray Fenter to Enterprise Rent-a-Car

        Reply
        • Dumpster Divin Theo

          1 year ago

          Fenter Benter

      • BaseballFuries

        1 year ago

        Take it up with his parents.

        Reply
      • jocpedersonsmom

        1 year ago

        Sox fans drunkest in baseball. It’s Gray.

        Reply
        • PeteWard8

          1 year ago

          Anyway it’s Grey and not Gary then.

        • PeteWard8

          1 year ago

          That’s how they spelled it when I went to school.

        • paddyo875

          1 year ago

          You went to school? Somewhat surprising…

  2. Cubfan Mike

    1 year ago

    Puig needs to go back home if the allegations are true.

    Reply
    • paddyo875

      1 year ago

      Or the woman can take seek payback in a more Ray Donovan-ish type avenue.

      Reply
  3. DolphLundgren

    1 year ago

    I think with a full healthy minor league season he’ll be an Oriole in 2022. He’s got the stuff but not the time on the mound. Or maybe not. What the hell do I know?

    Reply
    • PeteWard8

      1 year ago

      You know how to spell Gary. Or grey not gray.

      Reply
      • MrMet17

        1 year ago

        Is this shtick supposed to be funny?

        Reply
        • lukesdad

          1 year ago

          Not sure. It falls into a gray area.

        • rct

          1 year ago

          You sure it’s not Gary Area? Dude was great for the Padres in the 70s.

  4. baseballpun

    1 year ago

    Dumpster-Divin’ Jed gives something back to the dumpsters from which he’s taken so much.

    Reply
    • jkim319

      1 year ago

      If you are going to write something, say something worth reading .. keep the worthless, meaningless, brainless comments in your texts with your friends

      Reply
      • baseballpun

        1 year ago

        Hmmm…..

        Nah.

        Reply
        • Dumpster Divin Theo

          1 year ago

          Baseballpun yay. Jk nay. The public has spoken.

      • mcdusty49

        1 year ago

        Ditto to you negative Nancy

        Reply
      • johnrealtime

        1 year ago

        Don’t feed the trolls. Ignore them and they will get bored

        Reply
        • jkim319

          1 year ago

          Good advice.

          MLBTR, as a whole, has a good stream of info. The writers work hard to give readers timely, mostly accurate info from across the league and most fans comments (+/-) offer something to the conversation…

          These ‘Trolls’ comments are them throwing trash out their window while driving down the road… somehow they think they are being cool(?)

          Btw .. wishing Fenter luck w/the O’s he is good enough to deserve a shot, just not as a rule 5

  5. DarkSide830

    1 year ago

    Returning the favor for the O’s preemptively returning Rucker.

    Reply
  6. Dutch Vander Linde

    1 year ago

    How you know if he’s any good if you don’t give him a chance. Teams are ruining players career because they don’t have an ERA below 3.

    Reply
    • DarkSide830

      1 year ago

      ruining how?

      Reply
  7. RJNarvick

    1 year ago

    Rucker further along the path to MLB than Fenter. Cubs were able to strengthen staff after seeing full season with some fans possible. Made Fenter expendable.

    Reply
  8. extreme113

    1 year ago

    Drafting a Rule V player from the worst organization in baseball seemed like a poor decision from get-go, no?

    Reply
    • DarkSide830

      1 year ago

      that’s…not how it works.

      Reply
      • Jacob Cook

        1 year ago

        Not yet at least.

        As of 2031, every team will have their draft pick slot determined by their win-loss records. The decision was announced as being approved by the team-picked player representatives, team owners, and commissioner Rob Manfred the II.

        Reply
  9. Dumpster Divin Theo

    1 year ago

    Return to Fenter

    Reply
  10. jessaumodesto

    1 year ago

    The rich get richer

    Reply

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