The Mariners announced that right-hander Hagen Danner cleared waivers and will be outrighted to Triple-A Tacoma. The righty had been designated for assignment last week when the club added Luis F. Castillo to the roster. Seattle also placed Victor Robles on the 10-day injured list with a dislocated left shoulder and recalled Dominic Canzone — moves that were reported yesterday.
Players have the right to reject an outright assignment and elect free agency if they have either a previous career outright or at least three years of major league service time. Neither applies to Danner, so he’ll stick with the Mariners as depth but without taking up a roster spot.
The M’s are likely glad about that. They were intrigued enough by Danner to grab him off waivers from the Blue Jays in January. His track record isn’t long, for a few reasons. He was drafted as a catcher and tried his hand at that spot for a few years before moving to the mound. Since taking the hill, he has posted some decent rate numbers but has also been held back by some injuries.
In the majors, he has just one third of an inning to his name. In the minors, he has tossed 116 2/3 innings from 2021 to the present. Thanks to various injuries, he hasn’t hit the 40-inning mark in any individual season. But he has a 2.93 earned run average, 28.3% strikeout rate and 8.7% walk rate.
Over the course of a long season, the Mariners will surely need fresh arms from time to time, as all clubs do. If Danner gets back to the majors, he still has one option year and just 52 days of service time.
Photo courtesy of Mark J. Rebilas, Imagn Images
GOD DANNER
Hagen Danner! Das is good
Like the ice cream brand!
Hopefully it’s cookie dough 🤤
J.P. Crawford, Mitch Garver, and Rowdy Tellez need to be DFA. Their problems are beyond the slow start.
I’ve never understood Dipoto’s fascination with J.P., other than he comes cheap relative to a real Shortstop.
He’s one of Dipoto’s few success stories from the many trades that he’s made, so he’s probably more emotionally attached to him than other players. I’m sure that’s also why Mitch Haniger and Marco Gonzales stuck around for so long.
M’s should focus on limiting his innings threshold to maybe 50 innings in order to keep him in healthy condition. With that 2.93 earned run average and 28.3% strikeout rate, he could definitely be a useful specialist to keep the M’s in the game.
Can afford to throw day old Hagen Danner in trash cuz they be reveling in Batman’s sidekick presently: Basking Robin
*Haagen Dazs
His grandmama Blythe would have been sad, not to mention Auntie Gwynnie.
The pics of Danner and Bolton are identical… same floating baseball by their right shoulder, same beard, same hair…