The Braves claimed left-hander Daniel Young off waivers from the Mariners and outrighted right-hander Jesus Cruz to Triple-A Gwinnett, the team announced today. The Mariners had designated Young for assignment earlier this week.
Young had a 7.36 ERA over 2 2/3 innings with Seattle this season, marking his first appearance in the big leagues. Originally an eight-round pick for the Blue Jays in the 2015 draft, Young is now reunited with Braves GM Alex Anthopoulos, who was Toronto’s general manager when Young’s pro career got underway.
The left-hander has a 3.79 ERA over 299 1/3 career innings in the minors, working as a reliever in all but one of his 230 games. A grounder specialist for much of his career, Young’s strikeout rate shot up to 33.9% over his 28 innings with the Mariners’ Triple-A affiliate this year, while still inducing grounders at a 55.7% rate. This improvement in his age-28 season earned Young his first cup of coffee in the majors, and now another fresh start in a new organization.
Cruz’s big league resume consists of a single inning with the Cardinals in 2020 and 8 2/3 frames with Atlanta this season, with a 7.45 ERA to show for that brief sample size. The righty has missed plenty of bats over five pro seasons, but he has had some problems with his control and (this season especially at Triple-A) keeping the ball in the park.
Braves have two players out for the season (Pina, Duvall), who are on the 10-day IL. Curious that they didn’t move one of them to the 60-day and keep Jesus.
Oops. Never mind. They must have had an open slot.
Can certainly understand the Braves wanting to get YOUNG,
But to make room for him by outrighting JESUS ???
That might bite them in the ass.
Leave my donkey outta this…
Perhaps they WAIVERED in their Faith…
Perhaps they WAIVERED… in their Faith…
They need all the help they can get to keep up with the Mets!
Don’t need to keep up with the Mets. Just need to get into the playoffs.
New playoff format get in the door and see what happens. Baseball is so much about timing not sure that a break like the top two division winners will get is a huge benefit. I remember many times of the years teams there were hot and swept a playoff series and had to wait for next series lost the magic.
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I think your right, Thank You
The Braves should claim Freddie Freeman as well. Maybe if they had him instead of tier 2 Olson, they would be in first by now.
You’re not helping.
Neither is losing Freeman, signing a far inferior player, and trading your prospects needlessly. Maybe if they kept them, they would have improved this deadline.
His 70 RBIs isn’t helping? Lol get over it.
It is what it is man. Olson has played very good at times. Is he Freddie? Of course not but the club is asking him to be himself and he knows he can’t try and emulate Freddie. You can scream and yell until your blue in the face but Freddie is gone! It’s over. Support the team currently on the field at the same level that you expect them to preform!!