Right-hander Mike Mayers has accepted an outright assignment to Triple-A Omaha, the Royals announced. He went unclaimed on waivers after being designated for assignment over the weekend.
Mayers will stick in the Kansas City organization. He signed a minor league deal with K.C. last December. They selected him onto the big league club in mid-May. The 31-year-old carried only a 6.88 ERA over eight Triple-A starts at the time, but the Royals needed another multi-inning arm for the MLB staff.
He pitched well over his first few appearances following the promotion. Mayers allowed just two runs in 13 1/3 innings over a trio of games. He surrendered four-plus runs in five or fewer innings in his next three outings, though. That saddled him with a 6.15 ERA over 26 1/3 frames. Mayers had a below-average 14.3% strikeout rate and a modest 8.4% swinging strike percentage before Kansas City took him off the roster.
It’s a second straight down season for the former third-round pick. Mayers posted a 5.68 ERA in 50 2/3 frames with the Angels last year. He’s now a couple years removed from an excellent 2020-21 run with the Halos, when he combined for a 3.34 ERA while fanning more than 30% of opponents in 105 innings out of the bullpen.
8 years in MLB ball…. Becoming just the average WAR (0.0) thru him time…. Posting up $4.4 millions in earnings (so far). Bravo!
0.0 WAR is actually below average. The R in WAR is to measure replacement level. EI, he has made $4.4 million while be measured as completely replaceable, which is almost more impressive.
This guy had one of the worst debuts I’ve ever seen and he still made it 8 years in the bigs. Talk about grinding.
“…with G.E. Smith and the Saturday Night Live Band…”
Ya baby