The Twins have signed reliever Kyle Barraclough to a minor league contract and assigned him to Triple-A St. Paul, according to an announcement from the Saints. The right-hander was released from a minors pact with the Yankees earlier this week.
Barraclough has pitched in the big leagues in parts of five MLB seasons. A one-time setup man with the Marlins, Barraclough has always missed plenty of bats. The 31-year-old has struck out a lofty 29% of opposing hitters at the big league level, generating swings and misses on an above-average 12.6% of pitches. He’s always coupled that high-end stuff with poor control, though, walking batters at a higher than average rate in every season en route to a career 14.1% mark. Barraclough’s high-strikeout, high-walk tendencies were even more extreme with the Yankees Triple-A affiliate this year; he punched out 43.6% of batters while walking 20.0% across 14 innings of 3.21 ERA ball with Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
The 31-year-old Barraclough couldn’t crack a Yankees bullpen that has been among the league’s best, but there seems to be an easier path to the majors in Minnesota. Twins relievers have compiled a 4.89 ERA that ranks just 26th leaguewide. The Minnesota bullpen has been middle-of-the-pack in terms of strikeout/walk rate differential (15.2 percentage points) and SIERA (3.86).
So the journey continues!
With the Twins’ bullpen struggling so hard, it only makes sense to grab somebody who can take a couple innings and provide minor upside.
Does anyone know when the prospects come out for mid season on pitcher list
Unfortunately, although he is just 31 years old, the years have not been kind to toll taken on Kyle’s body by the baseball gods. He is no longer able to sit on a conventional baseball bench.
He instead brings his own……………………………………
Barraclough-Lounger !!!
Doors on the left
In my book, a groan is just as good as applause !!
At least SOMEBODY out there “GOT IT”
And made the effort to respond…
I like a cup o’ coffee with my breakfast barraclough
Henny Youngman would be proud..
Now get back to work. The drive thru at your McDonald’s has like 8 cars.
Buxton and berrios to Cubs for outfield prospect Edmond American 23 pitching prospects Ethan roberts 23 and yovanny Cruz 21
Buxton and Berrios to the Cubs? It would pretty much clear out the MiLB system for the Cubs.
Marquez and Davis as cornerstones to even start the conversation. Throw in Preciado to get close and a couple of the top 10 pitching prospects from the Cubs to close it. I really don’t believe the Cubs have the MiLB depth to do a move like this.
He walked a ton of batters but he would usually get out of his jams in Scranton. Surprised a contender didn’t take a shot on him. Yeah he would pretty much walk a batter every inning but damn he struck out almost everybody else.
Sounds a bit like the Shaun Anderson experiment. Hope they can fix his control issues. But if they couldn’t fix Anderson, I’m not holding my breath on Kyle B. Pitching coach Wes Johnson hasn’t been performing his miracles this year.
There have been a lot of guys they can’t seem to fix this year.
Like Duffey losing his velocity.. I have wondered since the crap show began if the twins took the No foreign substances memo the MLB issued BEFORE season.. and acted upon it and that is what we are seeing… because from Miracle worker to catastrophe doesn’t make sense.. where did that extra stuff go?
Kinda how lots of relief pitchers have trended. It really seems like they’re awesome one year and the bottom falls out the next. It may have a lot more to do with analytics. It takes a while to get a real good look at relief pitchers and potentially adapt to their weaknesses.