A few players on postseason teams have cleared outright waivers after recently being designated for assignment.
- The Guardians have outrighted reliever Bryan Shaw to Triple-A Columbus, according to his transactions log at MLB.com. While the veteran has more than enough service time to elect free agency while still collecting the remainder of his guaranteed salary, Tom Withers of the Associated Press tweets that he’ll accept the assignment. Shaw remains in the organization and could technically factor into the playoff mix as a result, but it’s unlikely he’ll do so after Cleveland took him off the 40-man roster. Re-signed to a one-year deal over the winter, the veteran righty soaked up 58 1/3 innings across 60 appearances. He’s long been a durable bullpen workhorse, but his 2022 results were disappointing. Shaw posted a 5.40 ERA with a below-average 19.9% strikeout rate against an elevated 10% walk percentage. Cleveland will owe the 34-year-old a $500K buyout on a 2023 club option, and he’ll head to free agency at the start of the offseason.
- Yankees reliever Jacob Barnes has gone unclaimed and been outrighted to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, the team announced. It was a quick turnaround for the righty, who was promoted for his team debut on Saturday. He threw 1 2/3 scoreless innings but was immediately DFA as the club cycled through fresh arms at the back of the bullpen. Barnes had a tough run earlier in the season with the Tigers, allowing a 6.10 ERA across 20 2/3 frames. He’s previously been outrighted and has more than enough service time to refuse the minor league assignment, although he could choose to follow Shaw’s path and stick in the organization as a depth option. He’ll hit free agency at the end of the year regardless if not added back to the 40-man roster.
- Rays righty Cristofer Ogando was outrighted to Triple-A Durham over the weekend, per his MLB.com transactions log. The 28-year-old reliever has garnered a pair of brief looks with Tampa Bay, his first taste of MLB action. Ogando has made three big league appearances, working 4 1/3 innings of two-run ball. He’s spent the vast majority of the season in Durham, serving as a multi-inning bullpen arm and compiling a 4.56 ERA with a 23.5% strikeout rate and 11.5% walk percentage over 53 1/3 frames. Tampa Bay has outrighted Ogando off its 40-man roster twice this season, giving him the right to refuse this assignment in favor of free agency.
- Padres outfielder Luis Liberato also went unclaimed on waivers last week, according to the transactions tracker. He’s been assigned to Triple-A El Paso. Signed to a minor league deal last offseason after ten seasons in the Mariners system, the left-handed hitter spent most of his year in El Paso. He had an impressive .261/.354/.541 showing over 99 games there, briefly earning his first major league call last month. Liberato only tallied five hitless at-bats with the Friars before losing his 40-man roster spot, however. He’s never previously been outrighted and doesn’t have the requisite service time to refuse the assignment, so he’ll remain in the organization for the time being. That’s largely immaterial, as he’ll qualify for minor league free agency at the end of the season unless added back to the 40-man roster in the intervening time. Liberato’s quality work with the Chihuahuas should land him a number of minor league offers this winter.
Clayton Kershaw is tentatively listed as the starting pitcher tomorrow as the 110-50 Los Angeles Dodgers host the 67-93 Colorado Rockies at Chavez Ravine. Clayton Kershaw (2798) needs five strikeouts tomorrow to tie Cy Young (2803) for the 24th most career strikeouts all-time. This is Kershaw’s 15th season, Cy Young pitched 22 seasons. With the season wrapped up, Kershaw may only pitch four or five innings tomorrow. With one more win, Kershaw (196) will tie Dennis Eckersly (197) for wins. If Kershaw pitches in 2023, he will surely go over 200 wins, but it might be a challenge to make it to 3000 strikeouts in 2023 unless he is healthy for a whole season, which is unlikely at this stage of his career, where he has still has the elite talent, but maybe only pitches two-thirds of the season.
Without 200 wins, he’s not in the hall of fame.
Slider:
Wrong answer, but thanks for playing.
Compare Kershaw to Roy Halladay, 2.5 era to 3.3 era, 2800 Ks to 2100 Ks, and Halladay deservedly received 85% on his first HOF ballot.
Kershaw has more MVPs (1), more Cy Youngs (3) and more all-star appearances (9) than Halladay, and again, Halladay was himself an easy choice. Kershaw can give up ten runs in one inning tomorrow, retire, and will be a lock. Plus, the media and fans both like him.
Roy got the sympathy election. Perhaps if Kershaw develops a morphine and amphetamine addiction he too would amass 85% and will live happily ever after. Maybe.
Brah…Slider you must be eatin’ your own cheese my man!
Kershaw is first ballot. I’m a Doyer hater and sadly have to admit it. The guy has been quality and has the resume like no other.
Wipe the the cheese out of your eyes and eat a grilled truth sandwich! Kershaw is first round HOF!
Now do Koufax.
Hehe…
He may be in the hall but I don’t recognize him as being a hall of famer. In fact, every time I visit Cooperstown I turn my back on his plaque. He pitched from a higher mound. If he faced today’s hitters they’d crush him and call him Sandra.
Dang…throwin’ straight stinky cheese! At first I was going to say blue cheese but that was to Doyerish. You’re throwin’ that nasty stinky cheese.
Now, your takes are crazy! Koufax not a HOFer, Kershaw not making the HOF.
Give us your take on Nolan Ryan, Randy Johnson and Mariano Rivera.
Nolan was a fraud and complete cheater.
I have respect for RJ since he killed that bird.
Mariano was better before he started balding.
Your cheese keeps getting stinkier and stinkier…in fact your cheese is stanky!
Next three:
Don Sutton
Bert Blyleven
Randy Jones
The 200-win thing means little. Look at Luis Tiant, Tommy John, Jerry Koosman, Frank Tanana, etc. They all won over 200 and aren’t in. It’s important to be a Yankee or a Dodger. Also, in this era, players are getting in just for being ‘good’. Based on that, Kershaw will be a first-ballot choice.
I think sliders is constipated from too much cheese
Don’t forget he may get 5 starts in the post season for Ks and Wins
13-12 post season with a 4.19 ERA. Not exactly Mr October.
Seems relevant to this article.
Kershaw is already a first ballot HOFer. Slider is already a first ballot HOF moron for thinking W total is something valuable in this era.
Cool story, bro. Irrelevant to story.
please, baseball gods, let this be the last time that Bryan Shaw wears a Cleveland uniform! When he’s bad, he’s “pour gas on the fire” bad….even going back to the Indians years
I’m not sure if the rules regarding adding him to a postseason roster, but I think he knows something to accept the assignment. If it’s Shaw or Plesac, Zach didn’t do himself any favors Saturday night. Can Shaw be added to the ALDS roster of he doesn’t make the Wild Card roster?
They have to do some roster maneuvering to do it, but yeah they could put Shaw on the postseason roster. I imagine Shaw is only staying on in case of injury because right now the Guardians have no other relief depth. Their first round roster will likely see:
Bieber/McKenzie/Quantrill as starters (Civale un-rostered for a position player because he’s in line to start game 1 of ALDS)
Which leaves a 9 man bullpen
Clase, Stephan, Hentges, De Los Santos, and Karinchak are your backend 5
Sandlin and Morgan are 2 more relievers to use in low leverage spots
Plesac and Morris are starters who were just moved to the bullpen to give length if need be.
That’s your 9. If anyone gets hurt the only guys on the 40 are guys who didn’t do well as starters (Curry, Gaddis, Pilkington), and Carlos Vargas (who throws 100 but doesn’t have control coming off TJ surgery and wasnt trusted to make his debut earlier this year). Also Kirk McCarty who is bad.
So Shaw is sitting basically as a backup in case someone in the bullpen has an injury. Because you don’t really want to replace. It’s not an ideal situation but unfortunately they lost a lot of other depth at Columbus to waivers this year (Gibault, Jewell), and there aren’t really any better candidates.
trust me, as a cleveland fan, i totally get it. he has had some pretty epic blown games in his day. but you can’t deny the influence he’s had on some of these young bullpen arms like hentges, clase, stephan, sandlin etc
that’s why I think he was given the unofficial promise that he would be added back on a postseason roster.
The last 2 seasons, I have missed the Shaw roller coaster of 2016.
What would Shaw’s alternative be? I don’t think many teams would be interested in signing someone for the last few days of the season..
Barnes, not a good player since with the Brewers. Minor league deal at the most. Maybe time to hang it up! Good luck!
It’s messed-up that the Yankees didn’t give Judge at least one at-bat today, knowing that so many of the fans in Texas paid to see him in a losing season.