The Pirates have signed right-hander Jerad Eickhoff to a minor league contract, according to his transactions log at MLB.com. He has been assigned to Triple-A Indianapolis.
Eickhoff was a capable back-of-the-rotation starter between 2016-17 with the Phillies, but he hasn’t pitched much over the past few seasons. The Indiana native logged 63 2/3 frames between 2018-19, then didn’t appear in the bigs during the shortened 2020 season. He bounced on and off the Mets’ big league roster a few times this year, ultimately working 19 2/3 innings over five outings.
That big league showing didn’t go well, as Eickhoff surrendered 24 runs, including a staggering nine homers, with 13 strikeouts and 10 walks in that limited time. His production with the club’s Triple-A affiliate in Syracuse was more respectable, as he posted a 4.86 ERA with solid strikeout and walk rates (23.9% and 6.1%, respectively), although he also struggled with the longball at the minors’ top level.
Finally, a big signing!
Big mouth caused idiotic words out of your mouth
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out
Keeping Indy’s pitching staff up to snuff.
I always get a chuckle when I see J. Eickhoff
Not that we needed any more of it, but evidence that the Pirates are just not big players. I hope they actually TRY when some of their talented young prospects make it to the Majors.
The pirates got their guy
Hey let’s go easy on the pirates they haven’t done nothing 15 year
I believe the Pirates have made the playoffs 3 times since the Angels have sniffed the post-season. Idiot
You would be wrong. The Angels last made the playoffs in 2014, the Pirates in 2015. So the Pirates have made the playoffs once since the Angels last did.
So sue me. The OP was trolling anyway
Lol my words exactly
I can only imagine how the kids in school made a play of his last name.
He’s 6’5, 240, so I’m assuming it didn’t go well for the school children.
Lmao
Maybe he’s one of those guys that scraps his worst offering in favor of a cutter or something and the light goes on? I wish him the best of luck. No pressure in Pittsburgh.
Why not? These spaghetti on the wall minor league signings are no risk. Do a bunch more of these and if you find one guy out of 10 who can play…Win-Win.
Can I insert an, “Al Avila is an idiot”, here? Never did this once or even signed someone to trade for prospects during the entire Detroit Tigers rebuild. Now he says we are ready to contend.
Has anyone looked at Tiger batting averages? It’s a media conspiracy to ruin baseball by.making it an elitist, high dollar sport.that only rich people can go-to……
The problem is Eickhoff has basically proven for the last 5 years he gets hit hard
Problem with that is having to play them all at some point, and if one works out, great, but the other 9 will get hit hard, and it will hurt the team in the end….
There’s so many other options that they can go to. The unknowns and unproven have much more potential
Balls float up a lot with Eickhoff. If he could just keep the ball down consistently
I guess this was Plan B since they weren’t able to sign Max Scherzer.
MISSED IT BY THAT [ = ] MUCH !!
According to informed sources, The Marlins were in on Jerad Eickhoff right up until he signed the deal to join the Pirates.. The Marlins made a “strong” offer, but not one that matched the Pirates’ financial commitment. The Marlins weren’t the only team to be outbid.
The Minnesota Twins had also been linked to Eickhoff.
Eickhoff was good enough to be signed by the Mets THREE times last year. So there’s that…