The Red Sox announced this morning that they had designated left-hander Tayler Scott for assignment. Taking Scott’s place on both the 40-man and active rosters is right-hander Jake Faria, who had his contract selected from the minors in a corresponding move.
A fifth round pick by the Cubs in the 2011 draft, Scott is journeyman who played for five organizations in the minor leagues before making his big league debut with the Mariners in 2019 at the age of 27. In 13 appearances with Seattle and Baltimore that season, Scott posted a 14.33 ERA in 16 1/3 innings of work. He’d spend the next two seasons overseas, playing for the Hiroshima Carp in the NPB before returning to the majors in 2022 with the Padres. In San Diego, Scott struggled once again to a 7.45 ERA in 9 2/3 innings of work.
In 2023, Scott signed on with the Dodgers on a minor league deal before impressing at the Triple-A level with a 1.37 ERA in 19 2/3 innings of work. The lefty was unable to replicate that success at the big league level, however, as Scott posted an ERA of 9.00 in six innings of work with the big league Dodgers before being traded to the Red Sox last month. Scott’s run prevention numbers improved slightly in Boston, though he still yielded a 4.91 ERA in his 3 2/3 innings of work with the club.
Overall, the 31-year-old Scott sports a career 10.18 ERA in 38 innings of work at the big league level, though he’s had more success overseas and in Triple-A with career marks of 4.02 and 4.01 respectively. The Red Sox will now have a week to trade, release, or waive Scott. Should they successfully pass Scott through waivers, the Red Sox will have the opportunity to outright Scott to the minors, though Scott could reject that assignment as a player who has previously been outrighted in his career.
Replacing Scott on the roster is Faria, a 29-year-old right-hander who last pitched in the big leagues with the Diamondbacks back in 2021. In 203 innings of major league work with the Rays, Brewers, and Dbacks, Faria has posted a 4.70 ERA (90 ERA+) with a matching 4.74 FIP. Faria is capable of pitching both out of the bullpen and as a member of the rotation, with 29 of his 72 career appearances in the majors having come as a starter. He’s struggled in 55 2/3 innings of work with the club’s Triple-A affiliate in Worcester, with a 6.47 ERA and 13.3% walk rate, though given his decent big league track record it’s nonetheless possible he could offer a useful multi-inning relief option to the Red Sox going forward.
Faria was serviceable with Tampa Bay, bring him on to the stockpile.
Gotta love it! Last time the Sox selected his contract he was on the team for like one day, and he didn’t even pitch.
Would be nice if the 13 pitcher slots on the 26-man ML roster were actually occupied by major league caliber pitchers, instead of constantly cycling through washed up minor leaguers who get shelled in the majors like Scott did yesterday, giving up the mammoth 2-run homer to .192 hitter Wisdom that put the game out of reach.
Left hander when the pic of him is clearly as a right hander lol
Every team wants an ace and a couple if guys who give them innings. Why not start prepping pitchers to go 125 pitches or more like the old timers used to. There were so many less injuries when pitchers were able to go 7-9 innings regularly because they were conditioned to do it. They also didn’t have half of their pitches putting unnatural stress on their arms, and they used their legs instead of throwing all with their arms.
Prediction: Sox will DFA Faria today after that terrible performance and sign Matt Bowman.
Perfect use of the Faria today. Two meaningless innings that someone of value didn’t have to pitch. Five meaningless runs, only hurts the team ERA which is meaningless anyway. Good job.
Hayzee – So what you’re saying is Faria is the new Ort.
He’s the last resOrt. 😉
I’ve argued in the past for throw-away RPs. Those last 1-2 slots in the BP are fairly meaningless if you only use them in blowouts.
If you add up the 12 worst guys in our BP in terms of ERA, their collective ERA is 6.20. But their collective W-L is 5-.3. All things being equal, you always want the best guys, but the turnstile of RPs is only there to protect the top 6-7 guys..
There is a pretty good chance that Faria gets demoted in favor of another fresh BP arm just in case one of the A’s games are blowouts.
Faria will be a DFA within minutes (or at least before tomorrow’s game in Oakland) as he threw 62 pitches today, he sucks, and Cora said Bleier would be activated for the Oakland series (Bleier is on the 60-day IL), so a 40-man spot needs to be cleared. Faria has already a been DFA once this year and cleared waivers…
Faria ‘selected’ 4/16, did not pitch, DFA on 4/17, outright to Worcester after clearing waivers 4/19. Maybe he can make it back to be in the dugout for the next Worcester game on Tuesday…just like last time.
MLB limits teams to 13 pitchers, so there are endless up and down movements with players with options. The pitchers who do not get the DFA, and if they have enough MLB time can elect free agency and look for a team they might be able to stick with in the MLB…… lots of travel…
Anyone notice how well our boy Brasier is doing?
10 games 1.59 ERA. 0.71 WHIP.
There are more Dairy Queen’s nearer to Dodger Stadium than Fenway Park.
Besides in Boston, it’s more about BQ than DQ.
Yeah, there you go, that’s the sort of baseball knowledge we got around here.
Good for him. He has some talent, but needed to get away from Fenway. This has happened to plenty of other players on plenty of other teams.
I’m aware. It’s still rather amusing having this entire board clamoring for him to be waived when now the red sox are trotting out guys like Faria.
It’s not the entire board. A lot of RS fans are pretty sharp. But a decent amount are casual fans that know little about baseball, often less about the RS, and pretty much hate every RS player.
I actually think it is part of MLB-R’s operating philosophy to publicize every RS minor league depth move, knowing it will get a 100 comments.
Trust me sinister if anyone has noticed it was I!!! Glad to see my buddy Brais turn it around as for the rest of the trash we have shoveled out there since his departure I have NO COMMENT!!!( but Brais was stinking it up also) as much as it pains me … his leash stretched from Boston to ….well LA before they cut him loose…
Gentlemen.. trade deadline approaches… my only recommendation… Mayer/ Bello and Ort( Dodgers won’t make deal if Ort not part) to reunite Brais with us ( fine me) dodgers also ‘throw’ in some washed up guy… Betts…and senior citizen..JD someone… but make no mistake Brais is the nuts and bolts of trade….