Some minor moves from around the game…
- The Twins have signed lefty reliever Sean Gilmartin to a minor league contract, per his MLB.com transactions log. He had been pitching for the Long Island Ducks of the independent Atlantic League. Gilmartin has seen big league action in each of the past six seasons, although he’s only made three appearances over the past two years combined. Gilmartin had a strong rookie campaign with the Mets, pitching to a 2.67 ERA/3.44 SIERA over 57 1/3 innings in 2015. He’s never managed to follow up on that success, though. In 54 2/3 frames since the start of 2016, the 31-year-old has a 6.09 ERA/6.71 FIP.
- Catcher Ryan Lavarnway went unclaimed on outright waivers and has been assigned to Triple-A Columbus, per the Indians’ transactions log at MLB.com. Lavarnway has bounced all over the league for the past decade, logging big league time with eight different teams (primarily the Red Sox). He’s a career .216/.274/.344 hitter in 468 MLB plate appearances and a .271/.361/.432 hitter in parts of 10 different Triple-A seasons. Lavarnway has previously been outrighted (and also has the requisite three-plus years of service), so he can reject this assignment in favor of free agency if he chooses.
Lavarnway is making good progress at sampling as many organizations as possible. He’s played with 8 teams in the majors and another 4 if you count his time with the Dodgers, Blue Jays, Yankees, and Cubs.
Apparently Lavarnway signed a guaranteed $570K salary contract with Cleveland (at least according to info found on the Athletic) so my guess is he accepts the assignment so as to not forfeit his salary. Because the chances of another team signing him to a ML deal seems pretty unlikely… he’s probably not going to make more $ than he’s already locked in with the Indians.
Gilmartin started dating Kayleigh McEnany after that first year and it all went downhill after that.
Hillary lost. Time to move on.
She did and Mcenany was a broke Joesph Goebels
Well that’s just an insane statement lmao
You know the Nazi’s were socialist.
Nazis were socialists in the same way buffalo wings are made out of buffalo. Read a book.
Actually no Eric July lays it out well how the Nazi’s are socialist youtu.be/IHo6uPDf3aA
Hitler and the Nazis outlawed Socialism, and literally executed socialists. Like I said, read a book.
The Nazis were fascists, fool
They were socialists mises.org/library/why-nazism-was-socialism-and-why…
Hitler even said it “We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions”.
@Brian What?
A joke about a famous spouse doesn’t always have to been taken politically.
In this case I just find her obnoxious
Wark, you ought to know by now that everything is viewed under a political lens by members of both parties.
Gilmartin’s wife is attractive. I understand the jealousy. Sean is a lucky man.
For additional thoroughness of coverage it should have/could have been disclosed that this is a “homecoming” of sorts for Gilmartin, who was a member of the Minnesota Twins back in 2013 – 2014 but was lost to the Mets in the Rule 5 Draft..
We really need the ability to post face palms on this site.
Sean and Kayleigh both down on their luck in their careers right now — Gilmartin pitching in indy baseball and Kayleigh disgraced, out of power, and humiliated by the actions of her former boss.