The Guardians have outrighted left-hander Tanner Tully to Triple-A Columbus, tweets GuardsInsider. He’d been designated for assignment on Monday, just two days after being selected onto the roster.
Tully, 27, also saw brief major league action in April. That promotion came as a designated COVID-19 substitute, while he was added as a more traditional call-up over the weekend. The Ohio State product has made a pair of big league appearances, allowing four runs in five innings with five walks and a strikeout. He soaked up three innings out of the bullpen during Sunday’s loss to the Red Sox.
A former 26th-round pick, Tully will remain in the upper levels of the farm system. He’s never previously been outrighted and doesn’t have the requisite service time to refuse an assignment, so he’ll head to Columbus. He’s spent much of the season there, making 12 starts and tossing 63 2/3 innings of 5.23 ERA ball. Tully only has a 14.9% strikeout rate at the minors highest level, but he’s walked a meager 3.5% of opponents and induced grounders on over the half the batted balls against him.
They also just called up 2 top starting prospects – Xzavion Curry and Logan Allen (not the Logan Allen that was DFA’d earlier this year) – to AAA Columbus. Likely this means Tully is no longer going to be starting in Columbus.
Hell yeah!! Been wondering when Allen would get the nod after his last start and I guess 11Ks in 2 straight did it.
I live in Columbus and haven’t been able to make it to games yet this year. Definitely gonna have to make it to their starts. Now I’m just wondering when Valera comes
Uncle Louis is probably not really happy about Tanner being outrighted………