The Mariners announced that they have claimed right-hander Eduardo Salazar off waivers from the Dodgers and assigned to Triple-A Tacoma. The Dodgers designated him for assignment earlier this week. In a corresponding move, left-hander Sammy Peralta has been designated for assignment.
Salazar, 26, signed a minor league deal with the Dodgers in the offseason and he was added to their roster in mid-April. He only made one appearance for the big league club, tossing two scoreless innings, spending most of his time this year on optional assignment.
He made seven starts for Triple-A Oklahoma City this year, tossing 33 2/3 innings with a 5.61 earned run average. He only struck out 13.7% of batters faced but limited walks to a 7.8% clip and got grounders on 58.6% of balls in play. With a .389 batting average on balls in play, it’s possible that luck played a role in how many runs he allowed to cross the plate.
Keeping the ball on the ground has been a feature of his game in the past as well. He made his major league debut with the Reds last year and had a 51.1% grounder rate in 12 1/3 innings, while also getting opponents to pound the ball into the dirt at a similar rate in the minors.
Salazar has worked both as a starter and a reliever in his career and could perhaps provide the Mariners with depth in both departments. He can be optioned for the rest of this year and for one more season as well. He also has just a handful of service days, meaning the Mariners can hang onto him for the foreseeable future as long as he continues to justify his roster spot.
Peralta, 26, was claimed off waivers from the White Sox in early April. He has made 12 appearances for Triple-A Tacoma but allowed 13 earned runs in 12 1/3 innings. His 20% strikeout rate, 13.3% walk rate and 36.8% ground ball rate are all subpar.
That poor performance has led to him being bumped off Seattle’s roster and they will now have one week to trade him or pass him through waivers. Perhaps some club will be interested based on his previous work. He made his major league debut last year with the White Sox and had a 4.05 ERA in 20 innings. His 5.09 ERA in Triple-A last year wasn’t especially impressive but he did strike out 23.1% of batters faced while walking just 6.4%.
“World Series drought”..Maybe by then you’ll have an original thought and can just stop posting(and reposting)provocative nonsense designed to get(old) arguments started. Virtually all major sports had truncated(or altered) seasons of some sort in Covid 2020, so apparently, you’re ignorantly suggesting the World Series, NBA Playoffs, Hockey championships or even the Super Bowl didn’t happen in 2020, right?
Is Scully the authority on this topic? Absolutely not. Do announcers’ opinions hold more weight than a well-informed fan? They shouldn’t.
So it’s even more pointless then?
The Trojan Moron: “No. This is not a real intelligent point of view. Just no”
Grab a bat and report to BP on your way to the bullpen. Offense needs all the help it can get
Why JD?? Don’t get it!
Because he’s better than Salazar? What don’t you get exactly?
Salazar gives up way too many hits, walks too many, and strikes out hardly anybody? Just wonder where his value is? That’s what I don’t get.
The only thing that matters is if he’s an upgrade over Peralta, which this year, he is. Not every move needs to move the needle big time. Baseball is a long season.
Yawn
Maybe every team but the Rangers (and Diamondbacks) will finally end their “World Series drought” this year.
I hate it whenever Yankees fans complain that they haven’t won a WS since ‘09 because my name describes the mariners franchise in 3 words
No WS no pennants takes a decade just to get to the playoffs flaky ownership
I wonder if Seattle might immediately attempt to pass him through waivers to make room for Baumann.
It would be cool if they could activate and recall Haggerty and immediately place him on the MLB 60-day IL. He’d gain service time, better pay, and Seattle would open a roster spot for Baumann.
Holy crap did I miss this one. I didn’t realize he had already reported and they had room on the 40. They didn’t have room for Salazar, hence the Peralta DFA, but they simply optioned Bolton to make room for Baumann.
I need to quite my job so I can follow baseball full-time.
Baumann even pitched today for Mariners.
The rest of league is busy snapping up Dodgers dispensable AAAA pitching chum. Dodgers staff is deep n they got reinforcements coming down the road. Can’t ever have too much pitching.