The Mets have signed right-hander Yacksel Ríos to a minor league deal, reports Will Sammon of The Athletic. The righty also receives an invitation to major league Spring Training.
Ríos, 30, has 98 1/3 innings of major league experience, but scattered over six seasons. He’s pitched for the Phillies, Pirates, Mariners, Red Sox and Athletics, never topping 36 frames in any individual season. He has a combined 6.32 earned run average in his career, having struck out 20.8% of opponents while giving out walks at a 12.5% clip.
He started the year with the Braves on a minor league deal and looked in good form for a while. He tossed 25 1/3 innings for their Triple-A club with a 2.49 ERA, 30.3% strikeout rate and 8.1% walk rate. He was traded to the A’s in June in a cash deal and was quickly added to the major league roster, but he landed on the injured list after just three appearances. In July, he required surgery to repair an axillary branch aneurysm in his right shoulder. He was outrighted off the roster in October and elected free agency.
The major league track record isn’t especially impressive, but he’s been better in the minors. That includes a 4.12 ERA at Triple-A in 168 1/3 innings over six separate seasons. He has struck out a quarter of batters faced at that level, though he’s also given out free passes at a 12% clip. For the Mets, there’s no harm in bringing him aboard via this minor league deal to provide some non-roster depth. If selected to the roster, he is out of options but has just over three years of service time.
Still waiting for that first Twins transaction…
Did you miss Niko Goodrum and Josh Staumont?
Sorry, waiting for first REAL move lol…
I get Ya but Staumont was a pretty good pick-up. A lot of potential upside.Maybe a change of scenery helps.
I heard they only have a few bucks left to spend. They are just being frugal and wise.
You think they’ll trade Kepler?
I would rather they trade Polanco. We have solid replacements for him. Kepler, not so much. Unless we get an outfielder in a trade, but what we really need is pitching.
Ngl it really kinda makes me sad not seeing Buxton play at least 130 games a year. What a talent he is.
Yackety-yack don’t talk back!
Mets are feeling like Yackasses for missing out on Yamamoto and Ohtani
Score one for the Syracuse to Queens express.
He will get called up designated for assignment and sent back down to get called up again.
That’s his 2024 season unless he totally surprises everyone. Best of luck to him.
He has no options left. So he would have to be DFA’ed every time they would want to return him to AAA. But he can start the season there.
Correct. That’s what crash said.
Oops. I read it all, but didn’t reread before posting. (Probably because the “Syracuse to Queens Express” phrase stuck out in my mind.) Mea culpa. Live and learn!
Same sort of AAA depth every club makes. Cue the lame attempts at humor from the usual suspects of NYM fandom
A scrubb like this doesn’t even belong in pro baseball.
That’s not for you to judge.
Baron is a national cross-checker from way back! Don’t you tell him his business!
I got your back Baron, I’ve heard stories (legends) about your signings in the early 70’s and mid 80’s!
Syracuse is slated to have a good team. I hope they don’t stink up AAA with this 6.50 ERA Scrubb!
@Trumbo: Did my first fantasy draft in 1985, lol.
@mahalkita This “scrubb” as you call him, being a AAA or “AAAA” level player puts him among the top 1000 or so players on the planet. Being among the top 1000 on the planet in any sport is pretty damn talented.
The vast majority of ballplayers signed never make it past AA ball. This guy has a place in pro ball, probably shuttling between AAA and the majors for a few years and he deserves every penny of the pro rated MLB minimum salary for every day he is in the majors.
He’s awful. There are many players not in pro ball who would put up better numbers than that. He should be in Independent ball at best.
Lol. ‘Many players not in pro ball’. Did this guy give you an atomic wedgie in high school or something?
@malhalkita: What an amazingly dumb comment.
If the players not in pro ball were better than those in pro ball, they would be in pro ball themselves. Duh.
You do know he was making an Andre Scrubb joke whom the Mets signed earlier in the off-season, hence the spelling, right?
The fact that the Royals have even put themselves in the conversation for that division… Yikes
If the royals end up winning more games than us this year I’m totally done…:(
@Sid Bream: That’s not clear from his post. I think he’s just not a good speller.
Oh jeez, here we go again, who ?
What are we complaining about here? A minor league signing?
What’s there to complain about? This guy is for singing when the opportunities are there. He and the rest of his band, Guns-N-Roses, are very talented. Yackesl Rios can sing.
I TRUST UNCLE STEVE!
I am a fan of Pat Hoberg and Quinn Wolcott. There be some good umps. Heck, Hoberg umped a perfecto in the postseason baby!
C’mon guys. They’ve already said there’s not much out there in free agency and that they’d explore trades. Meaningful trades these days require prospects that you can either trade, or use as AAA depth to replace the prospects you have traded.
A successful strategy when done correctly.
Robertson, Moore, Neris, Maton, Suter, Peralta, Brebbia, Stanek. Real experienced relief pitchers. Not another bum. The $10 million budget is a farce. Sign 2 of these guys and a DH. Please!
They don’t need a DH. Why block and see what the young guys got in real playing time?
Sounds like Soler would be a nice fit for the Twins. Just don’t let him field too much and stick to DH. That would make your team pretty solid right?
I’d love Soler but apparently we’re broke and can’t spend anything…no tv deal is not helping either…
Sorry man. That does stink about the tv deal stuff. A lot of teams are having issues due to that. Except the Dodgers and their 8.4 billion dollar deal. Yuck. Anyway, is your name due to the band Lambchop per chance?
Nice baseball player name. They don’t make baseball names like they used to.
Yermin Mercedes still tearing it up for the Sox?
Why is a billionaire being frugal? I don’t buy it. Next winter they will go for Soto and Wheeler and lose out. Show these guys you’re going to chase next winter that you mean business now. Surprise everybody and swoop in and grab Bellinger. At least sign Soler or JD.
I was quiet about the other ones but come on. This guy’s a turd.
@DaOldDerbyBastard wow its almost like I was right about this team and the Front Office. You can apolagize if you want, I’m not going to force it. I’m always right. I’m always so right that I don’t get phased anymore by how right I am
It’s not that you’re not right sometimes. It’s the hyperbole that bugs me. Everybody’s the worst. You’ve also called for them to fire the manager before he’s gotten a chance. You’re the worst of the worst Mets fan. All you do is b***h and moan.
Yacksel Rios of Guns N Rioses?
Yackety Yack, this guy’s back.
Yacksel Rios is a great singer. I’m not sure if I like Paradise City or Sweet Child O’ Mine more. Welcome to the Jungle is pretty good too.
No no no no no . , . Yacksel Rios did his best work on the song Mr. Brownstone. Still their greatest ever.
I stand corrected.
This guy would have trouble pitching for my old high school team. What’s wrong with these people?
Anyone badmouthing him clearly did not see him pitch in the WBC, he was impressive.
@bravesfan1976 you say all this yet you’d be horrified for the Braves to have picked him over a guy like Reynoldo Lopez
I would? Thanks for speaking for me, you clearly know me better than I know myself. We signed him last year after the WBC and he did great for us as a depth piece at AAA til he got traded. I’d take him back.
Another dumpster dive. I guess Alex Garcia Cohen needed another 10 million dollar ring and her co-owner Steve needed to buy that 300 million dollar art piece. These players like Rios, Scrubb, Sulser, etc. should be pitching in the Mexican League right now, they stink. Dollar Tree David strikes again