The Yankees have designated reliever Shane Greene for assignment, per the team. The move creates an open roster spot for Ron Marinaccio, who has been reinstated from the 15-day injured list.
The veteran Greene has made just two appearances on the season, one for the Dodgers and one for the Yankees. The 33-year-old, who began his career with the Yankees back in 2014, has since suited up for the Tigers and Braves, as well as the Yankees and Dodgers. He ascended to the closer’s role at the end of his time in Detroit, but transitioned back into a setup role after being acquired by the Braves at the 2019 deadline.
Marinaccio, 27, was a 19th-round draft choice by the Yankees back in 2017. He’s been solid for the Yankees this season, who are looking for more dependable arms out of the bullpen. Marinaccio has made 17 appearances while registering a 2.33 ERA/3.07 FIP across 19 1/3 innings with a strong 28.4 percent strikeout rate, too-high 12.4 percent walk rate, and 40.5 percent groundball rate, which is just a touch below league average.
Mets pickup for depth?
HOF second stint.
Dodgers again. Just watch.
You can’t “have it” forever. We are all told that we are done. Some at 18,some at 36. But we are all told.
Shane,you’re done. Find a nice coaching gig in Florida.
Greene has made almost $14M at 33 y.o. while still getting jobs at the highest level. He’s done when he can’t find a team and it hasn’t happened yet.
He’s always been a jobber
I knew it
Wonder what happened after 2020. He went the entire 2020-2021 off-season unsigned, re-signed with the Braves in May, and hasn’t ever recaptured what he did in 2019-2020. I get that the underlying numbers didn’t love him, but I find it hard to believe that no team offered him anything that entire off-season. Was he injured and we didn’t know it, or did he overvalue himself that off-season?
Yeah, it’s like he should have had offers because he was solid.
I will never understand the Yankees infatuation with acquiring random veterans for 24-72 hours
Hoping to catch lightning in a bottle. Just like with Carpenter, if a veteran comes in and blows them away, they’ll have a cheap veteran asset. If they don’t immediately impress they can just be released.
I, for one, thought Matt Carpenter was washed up. He was definitely a veteran who needed to be released to get his wake up call. He had been guaranteed a spot in the Cardinals 25 man for two years based on his prior track record. Glad to see him find his Fountain of Youth. He kills the Mets, and should be in the lineup both games against them this coming week.
Joe Says,
Also just a couple of outings has value to a top end team like the Yankees. Need to cover about 1500 innings per year. A couple of innings here and a couple of innings there doesn’t sound like much, but over 162 games it adds up.
Really? How do you “blow them away” when given only one outing?
I suppose if a newly called-up pitcher came into a tie game late with the bags juiced and dominated three tough opposing batters with filthy stuff and unexpected velocity on the radar gun to get out of the inning, a team might be blown away. At least enough to give him a second look.
It’s about long-term roster management, not the player. It’s about not burning minor league player options prematurely.
Time for Shane to hang it up
Shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaane.
Come back.
Awesome!!!
I feel sorry for Shane, but he was topping out at 91 and with poor control at that.
I was at the game last night. Not surprised here. I’m not familiar with Shane’s delivery, but it looked like he was short arming the ball to the plate? And from the 1st pitch.
I watched the game on TV and I agree. He looked bad and his delivery looked very different from a few years ago. He was definitely short arming it and was also throwing basically sidearm at times.
With his velocity in the low 90s, he has to have pinpoint control and he didn’t have that last night.
Go to the minors and rework your mechanics.
Gotta put the work in to evolve.
He’s been in the minors all year til yesterday
I was at the game last night. Not surprised here. I’m not familiar with Shane’s delivery, but it looked like he was short arming the ball to the plate? And from the 1st pitch. If he’s laboring because of injury, what a gamer.
Well, he’s done everything he’s needed to do to get a 1/100,000th share of an eventual World Series payout this year.
It’s time to start dealing!Get DRob and Happ from cubs,Trivino and Murphy from As,Fulmer from Detroit or Steckenrider from miami.
They aren’t going to trade for 5 players.
Tigers after they trade 2-4 relievers from their pen this week.
He had some of his best seasons with the Tigers.
Tigers can fix him and get him back on track.
Greene on the team for about 4 hrs
Zaidi will go dumpster diving again
Zaidi has put together some excellent rosters and winning teams.
They won 107 games last year coming from out of nowhere.
The next person who calls them the “Trashstros” or refers to the “cheating” thing in any way (all teams “cheat”- hate to break it to the deniers), there’s going to be a problem.
Trashtros, Asterisks, Astholes, cheaters, liars, scumbags, fake world series champs.
The Yankees cheated their way to the last 4 Titles with rosters loaded with roided up players and that was much worse than sign stealing and banging a few trash can covers,
Not saying either is acceptable.
But it cracks me up when a few indignant Yankees fans who don’t know baseball history make the Yankees out to be choirboys lol
He’s no Ryan Weber.
I agree studwinfield.he is certainly no Ryan DFA Weber
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Stankees still suck doesn’t matter what moves they make. Bunch of cheaters
What a downfall for Greene… complete downfall ever since he held out from the Braves.
King is a significant loss, but the Yankees are great at building depth knowing some pitchers will get hurt. I used to think the Rays were the best at this, but I believe the Yankees are even better. The lose pitchers and then pull other great arms up from AAA, all who miss bats.
Marinaccio and Schmidt are both very good.
I can’t believe what I’m seeing on the MLB site. German is scheduled to start against the Mets on Wednesday. Geez. Congratulations, Mets.
Uggh. Maybe we’ll have traded for Castillo by then. : -)
I like your optimism.