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Guardians Sign Amir Garrett To Minor League Deal

By Darragh McDonald | July 25, 2023 at 8:57pm CDT

The Guardians have signed left-hander Amir Garrett to a minor league deal, according to his transactions tracker at MLB.com. He’s been assigned to Triple-A Columbus.

Garrett, 31, began the year with the Royals, tossing 24 1/3 innings. He allowed 3.33 earned runs per nine innings in that time, striking out 25% of the batters he faced while keeping the ball on the ground at a 47.5% clip. While those numbers are quite solid, he also walked 17.9% of opponents, more than double this year’s 8.6% league average. His 85.2% strand rate probably helped him keep that ERA down, with his 5.59 FIP and 5.08 SIERA being far less enthusiastic.

The Royals designated him for assignment a couple of weeks ago and later released him. Garrett has over five years of major league service time, meaning he would have had the right to reject an outright assignment while retaining what’s left of his $2.65MM salary. The club just skipped that formality and sent him to the open market.

He’ll now try to work his way back to the majors with the Guardians, who will likely try to help him with his control. His career has seen roughly the same split, as the southpaw has always had big strikeout numbers but also huge amounts of walks. In 322 career appearances with the Reds and Royals to this point, he’s punched out 26.4% of batters faced while walking 13.2%. His career ERA is 4.95, but he’s had wild fluctuations in that department. He got that figure as low as 2.45 in the shortened 2020 season but it shot up to 6.04 the year after.

The Guardians have a couple of lefties in their big league bullpen right now in Sam Hentges and Daniel Norris, though the latter might be more of a long-relief option. He was working as a starter in the minors before getting his contract selected yesterday, then tossed two innings last night in the club’s loss to the Royals. Tim Herrin is also on the 40-man but currently with Columbus on optional assignment.

Garrett will give them some non-roster depth to potentially call upon if he has some good results in the coming weeks, though he’ll be a free agent at season’s end whether he’s on the 40-man roster or not since he passed six years of service time with the Royals before getting cut from their roster.

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  1. Col_chestbridge

    2 years ago

    Called this one. He’s an upgrade over Caleb Baragar in AAA, but obviously he still has to work his way past several other options. The focus for him should be working with coaches he trusts to get him to the best version of himself, and I think Cleveland’s staff has a well earned reputation there.

    Worth noting that Hentges and Herrin are there longer-term as LHRP, and they also have Anthony Gose returning next year as an option. So this is likely a short term stay.

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    • momTurphy

      2 years ago

      Could easily return to a dominant reliever in the Guardians organization too. Absolute wizards with pitchers there.

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  2. Logjammer D"Baggagecling

    2 years ago

    Must’ve been really bad to be let go by the Royals. Too bad he didn’t sign with Detroit. Could’ve been a teammate of his BFF Javier Baez

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  3. This one belongs to the Reds

    2 years ago

    Columbus, eh? Me and Jim Day will have to recommend some restaurants.

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    • RandalGrichuksStubble

      2 years ago

      Yeah, hopefully he doesn’t stink up the Arena District

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    • GeronimoSon

      2 years ago

      Ray Ray’s Hog Pit????

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  4. Jay 30

    2 years ago

    Still searching for that Baez rematch. Bros gonna get it somehow.

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  5. nottinghamforest13

    2 years ago

    Typical bad attitude and low work ethic.

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  6. JTSmith Reds

    2 years ago

    Been funny if Amir had signed with the Pirates. Remember when he took on the whole team. Priceless

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    • momTurphy

      2 years ago

      That was amid the news of a trade too. I remember thinking it was amazing then freaking out that it could mess up the deal.

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  7. oscar gamble

    2 years ago

    Amir has a good opportunity with the Guardians if he can get it together. It’s a no risk move for Cleveland.

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  8. cleveland_spider

    2 years ago

    I see the WS just outrighted Bryan Shaw. I give it 48 hours and Guardians pick him up

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