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Tanner Roark Elects Free Agency

By Darragh McDonald | September 5, 2021 at 12:44pm CDT

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.

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30 Comments

  1. tstats

    4 years ago

    Bye bye tanner

    Reply
  2. johns-11

    4 years ago

    Nice for Atlanta to give him a chance somewhere else for september.

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  3. Compo

    4 years ago

    Padres?

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  4. miltpappas

    4 years ago

    He can be Boston’s (after Kutter Crawford) 23rd pitcher of the season.

    Reply
    • mafiabass

      4 years ago

      34th after Schrieber

      Reply
  5. bucketbrew35

    4 years ago

    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.

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    • bigdaddyt

      4 years ago

      Must really hate the Phillies

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      • bucketbrew35

        4 years ago

        I feel like evaluating a pitcher based on one bad anomaly year and 7 innings is a mistake. Especially one with this track record.

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        • bigdaddyt

          4 years ago

          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”

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        • SalaryCapMyth

          4 years ago

          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.

          Reply
    • DonB34

      4 years ago

      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.

      Reply
  6. bigdaddyt

    4 years ago

    Imagine where the jays would be I. The standings without him and chatwood ever being on the roster

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    • socalbball

      4 years ago

      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.

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    • smuzqwpdmx

      4 years ago

      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.

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  7. jimmertee

    4 years ago

    Tanner Roark looked done before he took the mound with the Jays years ago. I wish him the best.

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  8. dodger1958

    4 years ago

    Dodgers will take a flyer. Seems he would want to be in the thick of a chase for a WS ring.

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    • imissjoebuzas

      4 years ago

      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.

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  9. C-Daddy

    4 years ago

    Watching the home run derby this year was triggering for me because it reminded me of Roark’s time as a Blue Jay.

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  10. Rsox

    4 years ago

    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

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  11. BobGibsonFan

    4 years ago

    Solid 7 year run? He had 3 great years, the rest were mediocre at best.

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    • Deleted_User

      4 years ago

      LOL

      Reply
  12. Bart Harley Jarvis

    4 years ago

    Stick a foark in him. He’s done.

    Reply
  13. UWPSUPERFAN77

    4 years ago

    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>

    Reply
  14. Joe It All

    4 years ago

    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.

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  15. brucenewton

    4 years ago

    Needs a big pitchers park and sublime defense behind him.

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    • smuzqwpdmx

      4 years ago

      The A’s need pitching help. Perfect fit for the coliseum.

      Reply
  16. Peart of the game

    4 years ago

    An NPB signing target

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  17. bravesfan

    4 years ago

    I’d take him out of the bullpen, especially how well he was pitching in Gwinnett, over Tomlin any day.

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  18. dclivejazz

    4 years ago

    Come on, Nats, bring back Tanner. He’s gotta be better than some of the others in the Nats BP.

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  19. CASKIGUY

    4 years ago

    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.

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