A few minor transactions around the baseball world have occurred recently:
- Per his profile on MLB.com, right-hander Trevor Hildenberger has been released by the Giants. Hildenberger, who signed a minor league deal with the Giants back in December, last appeared in the majors in 2021 with the Mets. In that two appearance stint he allowed four runs on three hits and three walks in 2 1/3 innings while notching four strikeouts. Prior to his stint with the Mets, Hildenberger had been part of the Twins bullpen from 2017-2019 after the club selected him in the 22nd round of the 2014 draft. As a member of the Twins, Hildenberger pitched to a 5.35 ERA with a 4.08 FIP in 131 1/3 innings of work. In the minors, Hildenberger sports a career 4.43 ERA in 85 1/3 innings at the Triple-A level.
- The Dodgers recently released right-hander Rubby De La Rosa according to Chris Hilburn-Trenkle of Baseball America. De La Rosa, 34, has amassed 421 1/3 innings in the big leagues across seven seasons, but hasn’t pitched in the majors since 2017. With a 4.49 ERA (91 ERA+) and 4.55 FIP in the big leagues, De La Rosa headed to Japan to pitch for the Yoimuri Giants from 2019-2022 before signing a minors deal with the Dodgers back in February. With a 2.53 ERA in 124 1/3 innings of work out of the bullpen in Japan, it’s certainly possible another club could be interested in giving De La Rosa a shot on a minors deal.
- The Mariners recently signed left-hander Rob Kaminsky and right-hander Braden Shipley to minor league deals, per Hilburn-Trenkle. Kaminsky has five career games in the big leagues under his belt, all of which came during the 2020 season with the Cardinals. The lefty pitched to a solid 1.93 ERA over 4 2/3 innings of work, though he has amassed just 41 2/3 innings of work in the minor leagues since. Shipley, meanwhile, has 100 career innings in the big leagues across the 2016-2018 seasons with the Diamondbacks, though he struggled to a 5.49 ERA over those 26 games (14 starts). A former first-round draft pick, Shipley returns to the Mariners after pitching for their Double-A affiliate last season, with a 3.79 ERA in 54 2/3 innings of work.
Maybe the Mariners will bring the Kaminsky Method to Seattle…
Shipley was once supposed to be a part of that Diamondbacks next wave of really good, young SPs, but his career went off the tracks after only a couple seasons in the MiL…
It would be amazing if he was able to make some kind of comeback, even if he’s only used as a lefty out of the pen to face three batters, facing off against a couple LHHs..
The odds are certainly stacked against him, but wishing him the best. He actually had his best season so far recently, and hadn’t performed like that since his first couple years as a professional..
Shipley is a righty
Well that certainly throws a kink into those plans…lol haha
Idk why, but I definitely had him pegged as a lefty..
Probably one of those things I initially got wrong a long time ago, and then just been wrong ever since..lol It happens..
I remember when Cardinals fans weren’t thrilled about giving up Rob Kaminsky.
That’s not how you use “meanwhile.” It has to come at the start of the sentence, not in the middle.