Right-handed pitcher Tanner Roark has elected free agency, according to Gabe Burns of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Presumably, the Braves had placed him on waivers, which he then cleared. Roark had enough service time to reject the assignment and elect free agency.
It’s been a rough couple of years for Roark, after a solid seven-year run before that. From 2013 to 2019, the righty logged 1100 1/3 innings with an ERA of 3.71, producing 14.6 fWAR. But after signing a two-year deal with the Blue Jays before the 2020 season, it’s been mostly rough sailing. In the shortened 2020 campaign, Roark pitched 47 2/3 innings with an ERA of 6.80. Toronto didn’t give him much room to improve this year, as they cut him loose after just seven innings over three appearances.
Roark latched on with Atlanta on a minor league deal and has spent most of this year with their Triple-A team, where things have actually gone well for him. In 46 1/3 innings, primarily as a reliever, he put up an ERA of 2.14. The Braves selected his contract in June but didn’t get him into a game.
Roark can now go back to the open market and see if any team is intrigued by those signs of resurgence in Triple-A. Because it’s now September, Roark would not be eligible for postseason play, but could help a club soak up some innings as the season winds down.
Bye bye tanner
Nice for Atlanta to give him a chance somewhere else for september.
Padres?
He can be Boston’s (after Kutter Crawford) 23rd pitcher of the season.
34th after Schrieber
I’d like to see the Phillies take a chance on him with Moore reverting back to normal and Eflin’s status so uncertain. Add Ranger’s potential injury and this add makes too much sense.
Must really hate the Phillies
I feel like evaluating a pitcher based on one bad anomaly year and 7 innings is a mistake. Especially one with this track record.
You should watch him pitch would change your mind. He’s got a attitude problem, has conditioning issues and just doesn’t have stuff anymore because of it. It’s not an “anomaly”
While I can’t verify attitude problems and lack of stuff it seems equally unlikely a ball club that needs relief pitching would simply discard a resource so flippantly. Probably more to this than that nice little, small sample, AAA ERA he has right now.
If he can pitch more than 3 innings without giving up 4-6 runs, he’s already a better option than Matt Moore. So I’m with you. Pick him up, send Matt Moore home. You’re already skipping Moore’s starts and he has no place in the bullpen unless it’s as mop up in a blow out.
Imagine where the jays would be I. The standings without him and chatwood ever being on the roster
Roark pitched in three games for the Jays this year; in one of those, the Jays were shutout. I don’t think he had much impact on the Jays place in the standings.
Imagine where the Jays would be in the standings if they hadn’t cut ties with Roark so shockingly quickly, and had decided to give him half the season to work things out because of his track record and all the money they had invested in him.
They’d be, well, still in 4th place but probably 10 games further back.
Tanner Roark looked done before he took the mound with the Jays years ago. I wish him the best.
Dodgers will take a flyer. Seems he would want to be in the thick of a chase for a WS ring.
A ring e cant get because he’ll be added to the roster after September 1 and he had already pitched in the major leagues this year.
Watching the home run derby this year was triggering for me because it reminded me of Roark’s time as a Blue Jay.
Roark worked mostly out of the bullpen for the Braves AAA team (24 games, 3 starts) so if Roark catches on anywhere he would probably be used as a reliever
Solid 7 year run? He had 3 great years, the rest were mediocre at best.
LOL
Stick a foark in him. He’s done.
He is still a ML pitcher! A lot of Ham and Egger and Ham and Egger minus players are in Baseball! Head up Mr . You will get another chance>
Tanner Roark was a part of the first ever Tanner for Tanner trade in MLB when the Cincinnati Reds acquired Tanner Roark from the Washington Nationals in exchange for Tanner Rainey.
Needs a big pitchers park and sublime defense behind him.
The A’s need pitching help. Perfect fit for the coliseum.
An NPB signing target
I’d take him out of the bullpen, especially how well he was pitching in Gwinnett, over Tomlin any day.
Come on, Nats, bring back Tanner. He’s gotta be better than some of the others in the Nats BP.
The monkeys making some comments here like Cucker & BobGibsonfan, C-daddy leads me to a question.
Which one of you were selected in the MLB draft worked your ass off for 8 years in the minors and made it to the Majors ?
Which one of you made it to the Majors and posted a 16-10 record with a 2.83 era ?
Which one of you ever had your name on a MLB contract for $ 10 Million dollars ?
You are all pathetic sandlot boys who never did jack squat.
But Tanner did.