Checking in a couple recent minor league deals:
- The Giants signed utilityman Drew Jackson to a non-roster contract last week. He’s been assigned to Triple-A Sacramento, where he’s appeared in five games. A former Seattle draftee, Jackson has played in the Mariners, Dodgers, Orioles, Mets and A’s organizations before landing with San Francisco. He got into three big league games with Baltimore in 2019 and returned to the majors for a trio of contests with the A’s this April. Jackson was brought up as a COVID substitute but quickly landed on the virus list himself and was then returned to the minor leagues. He hit .243/.353/.297 through 173 plate appearances with Triple-A Las Vegas, drawing walks at a robust 13.3% clip but striking out at a massive 32.4% rate. Oakland released the 29-year-old late last month.
- The Red Sox agreed to a minor league pact with right-hander Sterling Sharp on Tuesday, according to his transactions log at MLB.com. Sharp was released from a non-roster arrangement with the Nationals last week. Now 27, Sharp was regarded among the better pitching prospects in the Washington farm system during his time in the lower minors. The sinkerballer was a Rule 5 draftee of the Marlins in 2020. He broke camp and made four MLB appearances with Miami, allowing seven runs in 5 1/3 innings, before being designated for assignment and returned to Washington. Sharp has spent the past two years in the upper levels of the Nats’ system, including a 2022 campaign at Triple-A Rochester. He started 13 of his 18 appearances but was tagged for a 6.62 ERA with a below-average 19.3% strikeout rate over 66 2/3 innings for the Red Wings.
Those 18 TD’s in ‘94 were quite impressive.
Bloom is done!! Henry sell the team please
“We havent won a Championship in 4 years, sell the team” —- Some Red Sox fans are spoiled brats.
It doesn’t count as a thread for MLB-R unless some RS fan loses his $chitt over some AAA depth pickup.
as a sox fan, agreed. I honestly wish they would resign their own talent, and wish they had sold more at the deadline. true fans should be ok with sucking for a bit to build better farm going forward. look at what the dodgers and Astros were able to do.
Sharp seems to be a Corbin clone , one was enough for the Nats it seems
Boston could use Scott Sterling. Not sure what for, but they could uae him.
Throw batting practice
He wouldn’t be much good for that unless they wanted to teach their hitters to hit the ball right back at the pitcher.
Can’t be worse than Hernandez.