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Rays Sign Adam Conley To Minors Contract

By Mark Polishuk | May 10, 2021 at 11:39am CDT

The Rays have signed left-hander Adam Conley to a minor league deal, Baseball America’s Chris Hilburn-Trenkle reports.  Conley had previously agreed to join NPB’s Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles, but opted out of joining the team earlier this week.

According to a statement from the Eagles (hat tip to reporter Jim Allen), Conley decided against playing in Japan due to concerns over the country’s COVID-19 situation.  Due to entry restrictions from the Japanese government, Conley had been unable to even arrive in Japan until late March, and those same restrictions prevented Conley’s family from joining him abroad.

This isn’t the first time that the coronavirus has directly impacted the southpaw’s career, as Conley was one of many Marlins players placed on the COVID-related injured list last summer due to an outbreak within the clubhouse.  Conley ended up not pitching at all in 2020, after previously seeing some big league action in each of the previous five seasons.

Initially a promising starter in the Marlins’ rotation in 2015-16, Conley ran into some struggles and then turned to relief pitching, with some success in 2018 and then a rougher experience (6.53 ERA in 60 2/3 innings) in 2019.  For his career, Conley has a 4.82 ERA, 19.7% strikeout rate, and 9.5% walk rate over 414 1/3 innings, all with Miami.

It remains to be seen what role Conley will take with Florida’s other MLB team, though given the Rays’ flexible approach to pitching, Conley could potentially be used in a number of different ways.  He could be deployed in a traditional relief role or perhaps stretched out to be given a second look as a starter, or the Rays could use Conley as an opener, a piggyback starter, a long reliever, a swingman, or perhaps all of the above.

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  1. SFGbreezy

    1 year ago

    Solid pitcher 5 years ago

    Reply
    • The Baseball Fan (Doesn’t like the Cubs)

      1 year ago

      Like Shelby Miller

      Reply
      • bravesfan

        1 year ago

        Shelby was much better in my humble opinion

        Reply
  2. The Baseball Fan (Doesn’t like the Cubs)

    1 year ago

    Honestly, I don’t know what to think about all these minors signings of veterans.

    Reply
    • bot

      1 year ago

      I live in louisville and 90% of there team is made up of players like this every year with majority of top prospects at younger levels.

      This is a great signing though. Rays will build him up as a 2-3 inning guy and he’ll be ready to roll in a month or so. Rays will run him out there too ! Perfect place for Conley to re-establish his career

      Reply
      • ccahoe02

        1 year ago

        Their team as in the bats? I’m in Louisville too.

        Reply
  3. sascoach2003

    1 year ago

    Conley always “looked” like he would develop into more than what he was/is/did. I do think that the Rays will find something to hone in on, and “fix” him to the point where he may be a sneaky good pickup come the summer months

    Reply
    • balloonknots

      1 year ago

      A lefty is a lefty and every bullpen needs more options. In 2018 he was up at 95 mph and he can mustard that coming from the Pen he could be useful!

      Reply
      • HeedFrodo

        1 year ago

        Everyone throws 95 out of the pen. All about spotting up and he has a caveman mentality of “me throw hard”. I hope tje rays can teach him how to pitch and not just throw.

        Reply
      • StPeteStingRays

        1 year ago

        Hopefully he can ketchup to that velocity again…

        Reply
  4. mlb1225

    1 year ago

    Rays just found a guy who will have like a 2.0 ERA with them in 40 innings this season/

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