The Brewers have signed right handed reliever Adonis Medina to a minor league deal, according to Todd Rosiak of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The deal presumably comes with an invite to major league spring training, although that hasn’t been reported. Medina was reported to be close to a move to Korea last night, but instead will stay in the States and look to find opportunities in the Brewers’ bullpen.
Medina, who’ll pitch next season aged 26, threw 23 2/3 innings for the Mets last season, striking out 15.5% of batters and walking 5.5% on the way to a 6.08 ERA. He spent most of the year shuttling between Triple-A and the big leagues, and was optioned nine times during the season. At the top level of the minors, Medina had a 4.65 ERA through 31 innings.
Originally signed out of the Dominican Republic by the Phillies in 2014, he worked his way up through their minor league system, and went on to pitch 11 2/3 innings between 2020-21 to a 3.86 ERA. He was claimed off waivers by the Pirates prior to the 2022 season, but was designated for assignment and traded to the Mets at the start of the regular season.
Medina leans heavily on a sinker-slider mix, but works in a low-90s four-seamer, changeup and curveball into the mix. He’ll give the Brewers a bit of upper-minors pitching depth heading into the new season.
*sigh*
Big move!!
Mets are getting stripped.
Who mourns for Adonis? The KBO Kia Tigers. Would it have hurt them to gather a few laurel leaves?
Former top prospect of the Phillies, never got a real look at the show with them bc he hit a wall once he got to AAA.
Great, we got the guy who was about to pitch in Korea. That’s like picking up the last lady at closing time! Lol. Not that I’d do such a thing of course…
“Organizational depth”
Wanted to sign with KBO then dipped that contract.
The Pirates didn’t even want him. Must mean he’ll be the new 7th/8th inning guy in MKE, pitch 90 innings of sub 2.00 ERA and win reliever of the year…
We do have a great track record of turning no name pitchers into good relief options.
If only we could develop some decent bats
As I finished typing that I thought it really could go either way. 2 ERA, or 12.