The Orioles have signed left-hander Tucker Davidson for the 2024 season, the team announced. Since Davidson has yet to reach arbitration, it seems likely the contract is for near the league minimum salary for whatever time he spends in the majors.
Baltimore claimed Davidson off waivers from the Royals a couple weeks ago. The 27-year-old split this past season between the Angels and Kansas City, working 51 1/3 innings over 38 appearances. He allowed 5.96 earned runs per nine overall. After posting a 6.54 ERA in 18 outings for the Halos, he turned in a 5.03 mark over 20 games with K.C.
Davidson worked out of the bullpen in 2023. He had been a depth starter before this year, opening 11 of 12 appearances with Los Angeles in ’22. He struggled in that capacity as well and owns a 5.98 ERA through 125 career innings. Davidson has far better results in the minor leagues, including a 3.68 ERA in parts of three Triple-A campaigns.
He isn’t slated to reach arbitration until the end of next season. Davidson is out of minor league options, meaning the O’s have to keep him on the MLB club or run him through waivers.
Tucker turned out better than Pete imo.
Pete appears to be going a little easier on the hard drugs of late, so that’s always good to see. But yeah, Tucker is a great 8th starter to have around.
And Davidson turned out better than Carlson.
Ehhh, that’s debatable lol
This isn’t as much news as something teams generally do if they are contemplating sending a pre-arbitration player outright to the minors. They can’t outright a player (they can still release him) without a 2024 contract at this point in the offseason if the player would have been eligible for minor league free agency.
Usually it’s people with two first names that we hear about. Today, it is a man with two last names.
Seemed like a late off season mi or league deal kinda guy to me.
He’ll be off their 40 man roster by March
As a Brave he was your typical “AAAA” type of guy. Someone that could randomly eat up some good innings in a call-up start, and he’d look very promising in short stints. Although, he was just so inconsistent, he couldn’t ever really stick.
He isn’t bad to keep around as a multi-inning guy/depth starter in case your original staff suffers from a rash of injuries.
He still even has some potential, but until he’s able to find a better pitch mix or make some mechanical changes to become more consistent, he’ll remain your typical “AAAA” guy.
Good for him. He’s one of those guys that is too good for the minors but never really does anything great in the majors. Depth piece that so long as he doesn’t fall apart, can have a long enough career in the majors kinda unnoticed..