September 23: Edwards was outrighted off the roster, reports Shawn McFarland of The Dallas Morning News. It’s not clear if the veteran reliever will spend the final few days of the season in the minors or elect free agency and look ahead to next season.
September 19: The Rangers announced that right-hander Carl Edwards Jr. has been designated for assignment. That’s the corresponding move to open a roster spot for right-hander Tyler Mahle’s reinstatement from the 60-day injured list, a move that was reported earlier this week.
Edwards, 34, was selected to the roster just under two weeks ago. He made two appearances for the Rangers and tossed three scoreless innings, though in fairly low leverage scenarios when the club was trailing.
It’s been a bit of a nomadic year for Edwards. He signed with the Tigres de Quintana Roo of the Mexican League in March but then was able to get a minor league deal from the Angels a few weeks later. He was called up by the Halos in late April but was designated for assignment after just three days on the roster. He cleared waivers, elected free agency and went back to Quintana Roo to rejoin the Tigres. The Rangers then gave him a minor league deal in July.
Around all those transactions, he has a 4.50 earned run average in six big league innings and a 3.38 ERA in 74 2/3 Mexican League innings. He has also logged 50 2/3 minor league innings with a 4.44 ERA, 25.8% strikeout rate, 7.2% walk rate and 54.9% ground ball rate.
With the trade deadline having passed, he’ll be on waivers in the coming days. There isn’t likely to be much interest. The season has barely a week remaining and Edwards wouldn’t be playoff eligible with any claiming club. He’s an impending free agent, so there’s no long-term benefit to a claim. If he clears waivers, he has enough service time to reject an outright assignment and elect free agency.
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How does this guy not have a full time roster spot. Is a 3.35 ERA and a high k/9 not good?
He’s a walk machine when facing actual MLB hitters.
This guy’s been around a long time and only has 7 service years? I’d be in favor of awarding guys like this, who’ve devoted their entire adult lives to baseball, a fully vested pension.
Maybe a pension committee like they now do for the overlooked Hofers. Of course this type of designation should be used and applied very conservatively.
He’s been hurt a lot.
If you’re hurt while on a major league roster, you continue to accrue service time.
Where are you seeing 3.35? His Mexican league numbers? He’s 4.50 in the bigs and 4.4’s in the minors. He’s exactly the guy who loses a roster spot for a guy returning from injury
@TheGreatOne According to baseball reference, he’s got a 3.56 ERA across his MLB career.
As for why he doesn’t have a full time roster spot @ns02 is that he’s inconsistent. He was great for the Cubs in his first couple years but struggled in his final year with them so they shipped him off to the Padres where he was much, much worse in the second half of the year. Same thing the following year. Great with the M’s first half, sucked with Atlanta the second half.
Career numbers are overrated. What have you done for me lately 34 year old? He deserves a job cause of what he did in his prime that he’s not in anymore? Nonsense
Ranger management is the biggest joke in major league baseball. Top to bottom just plain clownish.
Not a fan of Chris Young I take it? But he was supposedly the boy prodigy, Ivy Leaguer plus successful MLB pitcher. How could you go wrong with such a resume ??
Carl Edwards is now FREE from MLB and is set to rejoin NASCAR !!
He should sign with the White Sox next year and wear 99, would look awesome in their black alternate jerseys. He’s from the heart of NASCAR country too.
The String Bean Slinger will always be a legend in my book.
I’ll always remember him running around on the field with the Cubs banner as a cape in the 2016 World Series. Good luck to you Carl!
Well, at the very least, he’ll be available for the 10 year reunion of the 2016 WS Cubs celebration at Wrigley next year.
Good, he sucks and so do the rangers. Rangers are the mariners graveyard. Any bums the mariners release, the rangers sign immediately. Shameful with almost a billion dollars between degrom, seager and semien alone.
That “billion dollars” contributed to a ring at least.
No back flip.
Pretty good fast-food hamburger chain.
It’s been a messy late-career for the Stringbean Slinger. He *almost* got the last out of the 2016 World Series for the Cubs, but did not quite have the ability to do it; I suspect even most Cubs fans would have to think hard to remember who finally did.
Because Alan53 is too arrogant to share it,
Mike Montgomery got the final out in the 2016 World Series, which was also his first save too