The Dodgers have signed right-hander Jesse Hahn to a minor league deal, reports Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic. They have also signed left-hander Stephen Gonsalves to a minor league deal, per J.P. Hoornstra of Dodgers Nation. The lefty is represented by John Boggs & Associates while the righty is with Excel Sports Management.
Hahn, 34, pitched in the big leagues from 2014 to 2021. He made 82 appearances, 50 of them being starts, suiting up for the Padres, Athletics and Royals. He allowed 4.22 earned runs per nine innings in that time, tossing 311 1/3 frames. His 18% strikeout rate wasn’t especially impressive but he kept 49.5% of balls in play on the ground.
Most of that work came in the earlier part of his career. He missed the entire 2018 season due to a UCL sprain that ultimately required surgery, then was held to less than 18 big league innings in each of the next three seasons. In early 2021, he landed on the injured list due to right shoulder impingement syndrome and he doesn’t appear to have pitched anywhere since that season.
Gonsalves, 29, has just 10 major league appearances on his track record. He tossed 24 2/3 innings for the 2018 Twins and another 4 1/3 for the 2021 Red Sox. He has a 6.21 ERA in that small sample of work. He missed most of 2022 due to Tommy John surgery but return to the mound last year on a minor league deal with the Cubs. He tossed 28 1/3 innings on the farm last year with a 5.72 ERA.
He was once a notable starting pitching prospect with the Twins but seemed to stall out upon reaching Triple-A. While he has an ERA under 3.00 at each minor league level below for the top one, his Triple-A ERA is 4.09. Across six separate seasons, he’s walked 15.2% of hitters at that level. He has transitioned from the rotation to the bullpen in recent years but hasn’t been able to log many innings due to the surgery.
The Dodgers are generally unafraid of taking a shot on talented pitchers with injury histories, with Blake Treinen, Daniel Hudson, Jimmy Nelson, J.P. Feyereisen and Alex Reyes just a handful of examples. There’s no real risk in bringing these two aboard on minor league deals to assess their arm health up close.
Neither of them would be optionable if added to the roster but Gonsalves has less than a year of service time and could be retained beyond the upcoming campaign if he clicked for the Dodgers. They only have three southpaws on their 40-man right now, with Caleb Ferguson, Alex Vesia and Ryan Yarbrough making up the club’s lefty contingent. That perhaps leaves a path open for Gonsalves to get back on track here in 2024.
How much of it is Deferred???
The only deferred part here would be playing time. Lol
Welcome to Los Karens
I’ll go out on a limb and say your Karen schtick is worse than the “deferred” jokes.
At least the deferred jokes make sense, Karen’s have nothing to do with the dodgers. And he makes the same joke over and over and no one laughs.
Crybabies, Joe Karen Kelly pretty much sums it up with his antics on the mound. Basically the embodiment of their earned nickname.
So very clever.
Rocker was rocked in the head too many times
I’m convinced this is actually John Rocker’s account and Joe Kelly slept with his wife
ah ok. you’re one of those trash can bangers. and since you’re on the internet all day, it’s the only thing you bang.
@rocker you must be a carlos correa and an astros fan. No other reason to hate on Joe Kelly.
Not enough likes/responses yet- you can ask anybody. Slusser, Axisa, Kahrl, Verducci, etc. I’m out of here.
I thought Jesse Hahn was the model who dated Sam Kinison back in the day? Cool career change – hope it works out!
I don’t agree that these signings truly come without any risk. If that was the case everybody would sign them. The cost might not be high, but it isn’t nothing.
seems like a back fill for minors, and thats pretty much it. These guys wont sniff the big club
One hopes but my point is even rich clubs can’t sign everyone who looks like they might have some potential, so they have to make choices. This is where the risk comes in. To me this makes the choices more interesting and more challenging than they are often made to sound.
I’d say you are over thinking it. Teams just filling out MiLB depth. Each team does so based off of potential depth needs and injury status of their MLB roster. Wouldn’t deem it notably risky unless a team was doing it with reckless abandonment.
Nah just thinking thinking. The teams only have so many choices, which means that every one comes at a cost.
I am going to spend my entire week thinking about these moves and especially the comments.
I guess Steve Gonsalves got tired of being a ghost hunter?
Cue the stupid and robotic responses:
* “Who?”
* “____” are so cheap, here they are dumpster diving again.” (esp ironic on a Dodger thread)
* “Print the World Series tickets, this move will get us there.”
* Any silly deferred money comment
* “That/those guy(s) suck
The 4th one is actually not that dull. Smh
Most people who defend deferred value NPV calculations fail to understand the basic principal of time value of money/NPV – that inflation impacts time value of money for backloaded contracts just like it impacts “deferrals,” and yet those get treated differently for tax purposes
What does this have to do with ghost hunters? Talk about a robotic response
Que the comments from fans that just learned about deferrals and thinks it cheating!!
Dodgers even sign Jessica Hahn just to scoop rights to Jimmy Swaggert’s soul…
Funny thing is, Jesse was born right at the time of the whole Jessica Hahn fandango. You’d think they’d have named him anything but Jesse.
I believe you’re thinking of Jim Bakker, a different corrupt televangelist.
In all seriousness, is it “cue” or “queue”?
Sugoi
“Cue” is to prompt someone or something
“Queue” is to put things in a line
So, “cue” in this instance
Thanks @filihok!
Acoustic. Something you use to shoot pool.
Jesse Hahn had a great curve, if I recall that correctly. He really had promise that first year while in San Diego.
all that money and we still only have 3 lefties (4 if you include Kersh)… going to make it very easy for the league to set lineups. Are the righties that much different from each other that it negates a lack of southpaws?
Something tells me a hader signing is coming…
The Dodgers seem to always do odd stuff like this where they sign garbage players and then they tinker with their mechanics and they become superstars. Except for Andruw Jones. He went to the Dodgers and stunk it up.
Syndergaard and lynn as well.
remember Jason Schmidt, traded to the Doyers in 2007 from the Giants for 3 years, $47M? Schmidt did not become a superstar. made 3 starts, went on the DL and was never right again. plenty of swing and miss in their pitching adventures…
Schmidt signed as a free agent. Not trade. But yes that wasn’t the best $ spent.
Steve Gonsalves the Ghost Hunters guy?