The Phillies released Beau Burrows from his minor league deal, per the transaction log at MLB.com. The former first-round pick had signed with Philadelphia at the end of Spring Training.
Burrows was selected by the Tigers with the 22nd pick of the 2015 draft. The Texas native was a top 100 caliber prospect early in his professional career. His results began to level off once he hit the Triple-A level. Burrows pitched in the majors for the Tigers and Twins between 2020-21, allowing eight runs in 8 1/3 innings covering six relief appearances.
Since then, Burrows has bounced around the upper levels of the minor leagues. He spent 2022 with the Dodgers and worked in the Braves’ system a year ago. Burrows split his time with the Phils between Double-A Reading and Triple-A Lehigh Valley, allowing 6.45 earned runs per nine through 22 1/3 frames. He walked more than 20% of opposing hitters. Burrows now owns a 6.10 ERA in 317 1/3 career innings at the Triple-A level. His camp will presumably search for another minor league opportunity, though it doesn’t seem out of the question he could head to independent ball to dial in his command.
Clemens,Burrows,Soto,Spencer,Castellanos
Lots of busts and bad moves from Phils from Tigers.(Spencer will be bust very soon)
Turnbull and Clemens have been quite good here.
Turnbull is what you say to your friends when you wake up from your drunken slumber on Eurotrip when you thought you were crushing tomatoes with your feet but find yourself on the pavement in Pamplona as the stampede turns the corner
What makes you think Turnbull will be a bust? And Castellanos is still hitting at an above average level
hitting Above average level if he were a pitcher maybe
I love Nick the Stick and want him to do well… watching him field his position is excruciatingly painful.
Turnbull gamed the injury system in Detroit to avoid being sent down and continued to accrue service time. Kudos to him, you see organizations holding players back to game the system more than the other way around, but to team oriented thinkers, this type of selfish action usually repeats itself again in the future at critical moments.
More like Nick the Stink amirite?
In the case of Turnbull, his performance almost two years after TJ was horrible. The Tigers attempted to send him down and he then informed them of an injury. That’s what started the bad blood. It was on the player this time.
Turnbull pitched terribly last year and showed he was not a team player by playing games when they went tobsend him down. He could win the Cy Young and I wouldn’t want him back in Detroit.
Beau Burrows. Jeff Burrows homelier younger brother. All downhill after the Fabulous Baker bowl.
“Say it ain’t so, Beau?”
Beau not knows pitching.
Was he eaten by cannibals?
Drafting high school pitchers in the 1st round is a real crap shoot.
Especially when Walker Bueler was available as he went 2 picks later to the Dodgers. Imagine that since he was pitching for Vanderbilt and not in High School that was a deal breaker for the Tigers
Think the Phillies are going to make a move soon. If they could acquire Mason Miller & J.J. Bleday from the Oakland A’s for 5 or 6 guys not named Painter, Crawford, Starlyn Caba or Aiden Miller – they should. How about this hypothetical:
Johan Rojas
Darrick Hall
William Bergolla (#8)
Simon Muzziotti (#18)
Samuel Aldegheri (#10)
Mick Abel (#2)
George Klassen (#9)
For:
M. Miller CL
JJ Bleday CF
S. Maguire C/1B
Look at Aldegheri & Klassen’s numbers, they are phenomenal. Sell high and bring in a player that will be a bonafide Closer – a move that would allow Alavardo, Hoffman & Co. to fall back into their natural roles. Alavardo for those 8th inning jams he gets us out of. Hoffman for those tight games late. It’s a move that puts this team over the top. Look how deep the lineup and pitching stafff would be- in exchange for a few older, over performing prospects that are blocked.
Vs. RHP
1. K. Schwarber DH
2. T. Turner SS
3. B. Harper 1B
4. A. Bohm 3B
5. B. Stott 2B
6. JT Realmuto C
7. D. Dahl / B. Marsh LF
8. N. Castellanos RF
9. JJ Bleday CF
Vs. LHP
1. K. Schwarber DH
2. T. Turner SS
3. B. Harper DH
4. A. Bohm 3B
5. JT Realmuto C
6. N. Castellanos RF
7. E. Sosa 2B
8. C. Pache CF
9. W. Merrifield LF
Bullpen:
M. Miller CL
J. Alavardo LHSU (8th)
J. Hoffman RHSU (tie games/up or down 1 run)
O. Kirkering RHSU (with lead)
Seranthony (trailing or up by 3 or more runs)
G. Soto (trailing or up by 3 or more runs)
M. Strahm (best middle reliever in NL)
J. Ruiz (mop up)
S. Turnbull (Swing/long relief/extra inning games)
Could also see a scenario where Taijuan Walker gets traded. So many SP injuries around MLB, it’s an epidemic. How about Taijuan Walker to the Orioles for Austin Hays or Cedric Mullins.
Or Maybe to the Red Sox for Kenley Jansen?
There’s only a handful of teams that are “out of it” so I think the Phillies could deal Walker, reinsert Turnbull, and have more money to play with this winter.
I mean 32nd pick in 1st round. Tim Anderson, Hunter Renfrow, Clint Frazier, Austin Meadows to name a few were drafted ahead of him