The Mariners announced that they have selected the contract of right-hander Brady Lail and designated righty Domingo Tapia for assignment. The club also optioned infielder Jack Mayfield to Triple-A Tacoma.
Lail was an 18th-round draft pick of the Yankees in 2012 who pitched with them, the White Sox and Mariners during the previous two seasons. He picked up just 19 innings in those years and registered a 5.21 ERA with a 17.3 percent strikeout rate against a 9.9 percent walk rate. The 27-year-old owns a similar 5.15 ERA in 327 Triple-A frames.
Tapia, 29, went to Seattle when it claimed him from Boston last offseason. He threw two scoreless innings with the Mariners before they designated him, giving him 6 1/3 frames of one-run ball in the majors. Tapia has notched a 4.21 ERA in 141 Triple-A frames.
Somebody will take a flyer on Tapia. With 0.2 career WAR in only 7 games, the sabermetrics and algorithms will eat that up for the humans that rely on them to make every decision.
He seemed pretty good pitching in Boston last year, I was a little surprised we let him go
Are you kidding….he pitched 4 1/3 innings in Boston.
In 2019 he put way too many men on base WHIP 1.608 in Pawtucket (Boston’s AAA). Frankly I was surprised the Red Sox brought him back in the spring of 2020 even in AAA.
It showed how far down the depth chart he was as the 27th and last pitcher used for the Red Sox. He is the definition of emergency depth.
Why are you trying to have the war on WAR about 6 years too late?
because it still sucks
Wrong
Because it’s not needed, especially multiple versions of it that nobody can calculate without a complex formula.
Marlins should take a flyer on Tapia because his name kinda sounds like tilapia
NOT EL FINAL 🙁
The Mariners should flip Kelenic and Crawford in the lineup.
I agree