Right-hander Drew Hutchison has opted out of his minor league contract with the Dodgers, tweets Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times. The veteran right-hander, then, is a free agent and is now eligible to sign with any team.
Hutchison, 27, began the season with the Phillies and pitched to a 4.64 ERA with a 19-to-13 K/BB in 21 1/3 innings of work before being designated for assignment and ultimately landing with the Dodgers. While he never made it to the big leagues in L.A., he pitched brilliantly with Triple-A Oklahoma City, logging a 2.14 ERA with 8.6 K/9 against 2.8 BB/9 in 42 innings at that level. More impressively, Shaikin notes that Hutchison snapped off a 23-inning scoreless streak to end his tenure with the organization.
Understandably, after not being brought to the Majors on the heels of that type of success, Hutchison will re-enter the open market in hopes of finding a new opportunity with a clearer path to the big leagues. The right-hander has struggled to find his footing in the Majors over the past several years, but he looked like an intriguing long-term rotation piece with the Blue Jays back in 2013, when he pitched 184 2/3 innings of 4.48 ERA ball with a strikeout per inning, solid control and a 3.85 FIP.
Omg. Now what????
A’s Billy Beane needs this fellow in the athletics’ rotation…
Low key move that might work lol
With how Edwin Jackson and Trevor Cahill have worked out for the A’s this year not a bad idea at all
A’s will have him on the phone as we speak.
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Orioles. Need arms. should absolutely take a flier.
Actually, yes, that’s probably not a terrible idea. They really need someone serviceable to throw out there.
That’s actually a really good idea
Orioles or Rays.
Back to the Jays, quickly please. If he has regained his previous form, the Jays rotation is awful, he would be a great piece.
The question is he back to form?
Wouldn’t hurt to try, especially with Jaime roaming in the rotation/bullpen. When is he going to be released?
Who cares, at this point they Jays just need somebody to throw some innings so might as well give him a shot. That or finally bring up SRF but I don’t see them starting that clock yet.
Absolutely would bring him in to pitching. Start, relieve, whatever. Perhaps being back in Toronto energizes him the next two months. Send down Cumpton and release Nick Tepesch.
Yankees! Sign him! Then dfa Sonny Gray!
lol yeah dfa sonny gray. Great idea there
Friedman’s arrogance will be their downfall. No pen… no championship.
I suspect he’s banking on having one or two of his starters in the pen. Maybe maeda and buehler. Idk. They definitely have too many starters when healthy but none outside of kershaw are really scary. Maybe ryu or wood to the pen instead as well. Hard to say.
pen has been pretty good last couple of months
Good thing they have a pen
Geez, did Friedman rail your husband or something?
How about the Giants?
That’s what I was thinking.
Don’t have the luxury tax space. Even the MLB minimum pushes them over.
He’ll sign with Tampa
The Blue Jays don’t have a starter for Thursday. They might as well bring him back and see what happens.
Agreed. The Blue Jays should just take him back and try him out again. Can he be any worse than what they have now? He can’t be worse than Gaviglio or Biagini or Perez or Garcia. How bad can it be?
Frank, Agreed and agreed and agreed all those genius Atkins moves haven’t worked so it is time for a change…
Brewers were the team with the most obvious need to add pitching and they didn’t.
The Rangers could use him badly
He’s already been used badly. Needs someone to utilize him well instead.
lol
The __________ could try him, why not?
AAAA pitcher. Too good for the minors, but not good enough for the show.
He was good enough, in fact a stud major league pitcher for a short time, but injuries have left his arm probably AAAA at this point unless he can prove himself all over again.
Get him Tampa!!
Don’t they only have 1 active SP on the MLB roster?? And it’s the guy they got back from the Archer trade? It is amazing they are a .500 ballclub..
Oh man, the Pirates didn’t have to trade away the farm for Archer after all. Their ace is available once again.
He should have broken camp in the Phillies rotation instead of Lively. I thought he was solid and did everything Kapler and Klentak asked of him. He relies on deception and his defense but produces results. I’d argue that his 2018 ML stats are skewed because they were rung up in a long man role rather than as a starter. His minor league numbers are off the charts but he’d be somewhere in between back at the big league level. He’s a slightly less effective version of Jeremy Hellickson. Plenty of teams could use that down the stretch. I hope he finds a home and does well.
I was surprised he got DFAd by the Phils. They could still used him…in case Pivetta or Efflin implode.
I was surprised he got DFAd by the Phils. They could still used him…in case Pivetta or Efflin implode.
I was thinking the same thing, particularly if Kapler is going to a piggy back rotation in September.
Indians
Drew Hutchison did not pitch in the big leagues in 2013… that decent year in Toronto was 2014. In any case, he’s a useful piece as a late August-September starter for a team out of it (Toronto, Baltimore, etc) that just needs innings. Beyond that, he looks like the same old Hutchison — a pretty good AAA starter who can’t give you much more than a 4.50 ERA in the majors.
With that kind of fringy talent he’ll keep getting paid to play ball, but I highly doubt he’s “figured it out” or “regained his form” as people are suggesting. He’s exactly who he’s always been.
No, I disagree, he was a stud at times, not fringy MLB talent. That is why he keeps getting 2nd chances.
Injury has hurt him which means there is a shot at him fully recovering and regaining form.
He is who we thought he was!
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Wouldn’t he want to chose a potential post season team.
Gives him a chance to be seen.
Am League team?
Brewers or Giants.
His peripherals are lousy, even for a PCL guy. That said, he’s not totally useless. He’s just one of the those guys who was “meh”, then hit arbitration; in other words, he was fine at minimum wage, not worth much above that.
He’d be a nice pickup, probably for an NL team; I can see the Brewers in play here.
27 years old. I’d like to see Texas pick him up. We need arms, who knows, maybe he sticks.
He is who we thought he was!
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