The Braves announced that right-hander Kevin Herget has been claimed off waivers from the Mets and been assigned to Triple-A Gwinnett. The Mets designated Herget for assignment on Thursday.
Herget came to New York on another waiver claim off the Brewers’ roster back in November, and his time with the Amazins ended up consisting of two innings in the Mets’ 8-3 win over the Diamondbacks on April 29. Herget was called up to the active roster that same day and optioned back to Triple-A the following day. His work at Triple-A Syracuse has seen Herget post a 2.87 ERA in 15 2/3 relief innings, but with some uninspiring peripheral numbers.
While he has now appeared in each of the last four MLB seasons, Herget hasn’t gotten much of an extended look, as his big league resume consists of 44 2/3 total innings of 4.63 ERA ball across 25 games with four different teams. A veteran of 14 pro seasons that includes a long stint in the Cardinals organization and a couple of stops in independent ball, Herget offers plenty of experience and some pretty decent numbers as a minor leaguer.
Atlanta becomes the latest team to get a look at the 34-year-old, and Herget becomes the latest in a very long line of veteran relievers the Braves have auditioned throughout Spring Training and into the season. The revolving door hasn’t brought much consistency to a bullpen that still around the middle of the pack in overall production, yet the Braves have had some luck in the past at finding hidden gems amongst less-heralded pitchers.
I’m watching the Red Sox game and the Red Sox suck they really do who is this guy Herget
I’m watching the Red Sox game who is this guy heard yet?
aronsond: Baseball Reference is your friend.
I thought the article was going to be about Maztek back in Atlanta
Unfortunately, Matzek may cost money.
The Braves don’t seem to want to part
with any $$ for pitching, but will gladly
dish out on high strikeout rate batters!
Don’t you ever get tired of looking like a moron?
he may be a troll but is he a moron if it is true?
They did not invest in their starting pitchers even though they lost 2 of their top pitchers then one coming off major injury and well out again along with another that has a serious case of injuries over the last few years. The only major league FA signing i can think of on the pitcher side was a split contract for a reliever.
@Flyby sorry bud, but he is a moron. The Braves did offer a contract to Nola, and signed Strider to an extension. Also Matzek is a reliever and the Braves do spend on their bullpen too. You can’t say they don’t spend $$$ on pitching because they do.
shouldnt someone not a moron especially with brave in his name know that strider signed his extension years ago and not this past year? Maybe not a Braves fan?
I also offered Nola a contract. Not sure why he didnt take the 20 bucks and a pizza to pitch for our softball team cant believe he turned it down. I even offered to pay for the train ride too. So what did they do from November to March? Nola signed damn near the beginning of the offseason.
@Flyby: Anthopolous has spoken extensively on the organization’s belief in their young pitching. They didn’t waste money this past off season on FA starters like Buhler, Gibson, Snell, Flaherty, etc because they planned on filling the open spot (due to not re-signing Morton) w/Elder and AJSS. That plan has worked well so far. They spent reasonably on pitching last year when they acquired Sale and Reynaldo Lopez. This past winter they reworked the contracts of (and extended) Joe Jiminez and Aaron Bummer. The Braves offered Nola 6 years @$162M but were outbid (thank goodness) $10M by the Phils.
You can offer whatever you want if you know they are not going to accept it. Players have been using the blue jays for that the last few years and in return the jays say well we offered them a better deal but they didnt accept it.
Also wasnt it just a week or two ago people were calling for elder to be demoted or put in the bullpen? Think he was demoted already.
If they were truly interested in nola why not sign your homegrown talent for 250K more that is slightly younger as well (27M for Nola on the offer above and 27.250 for fried on yankees deal). I would think you would know him the best as he had been with the team for 10 years and he might have even been less than what the yankees offered due to taxes (not much difference but maybe that 250k is now even). Seems like a miss to me so far.
But if you are going younger why are they going after nola and then why not go after fried? Also if you are going younger both flaherty and buehler are younger than nola and fried.
Braves were never going to pay Fried that awful contract for 8 years and he wasn’t going to give them a break. Union reps squeeze every dollar they can in the interest of “advancing the position.” They went younger by not paying Fried the largest contract ever paid to a lh pitcher and replacing him and Morton w/Elder and AJSS on pre arb contracts. Elder was only demoted to make room for Strider because they decided not to go w/a 6 man rotation. He wasn’t demoted for performance issues. His last 5 starts before the demotion were strong. Prove they knew Nola wasn’t going to accept their offer. You can’t. Your argument using the Blue Jays as “proof” doesn’t make sense. The Braves didn’t claim they offered Nola a better deal. They were outbid by $10M. They went after Nola because 2 years of negotiating w/Fried convinced them he wasn’t going to re-sign w/them on a reasonable deal. “Going younger” means going w/pre arb starters like AJSS, Elder, Holmes, and others high in the system—-not over paid, medically suspect aging starters like Buhler and Flaherty.
The Braves will be trying to get even for Griffin Canning for a while.
Canning didn’t cost the Braves anything. Their starting pitching is in good shape and they have plenty of young depth.
Braves have been shopping at the Dollar Store for pitchers all season to dip under the luxury tax. Hopefully next year they will open the wallet back up.