The Blue Jays announced on Friday that they’ve re-signed right-hander Taylor Cole to a minor league contract after releasing him earlier this week.
Cole, 27, missed the first several months of the season on the disabled list but worked his way back to toss 12 2/3 scoreless innings across three minor league levels before making his Major League debut last week. Cole’s release came at the tail-end of a 10-day stint on the DL for a broken fifth toe in his right foot, and the release may have simply been a means of preventing another team from claiming him on waivers. A 29th-round pick by the Jays back in 2011, Cole will presumably return to the club’s Triple-A affiliate and hope to build on the solid results he’s posted in the minors both this year and last, perhaps with a chance for a September call-up on an injury-depleted Blue Jays staff.
By his numbers he was okay in AA in 2016, not many innings to look at since then. He is 27 yrs old, so at best he may be a reliever piece somewhere in the system.He’ll probably go back and forth between MLB and AAA a few times. His ceiling is likely AAA.
Well, since he’s already reached the majors once, his ceiling is not AAA.
It’s about where he is going to stay and be successful, not where he is going to visit and do poorly.