March 25: The Blue Jays have now announced the signing. To make room on the 40-man roster, second baseman Devon Travis was placed on the 60-day injured list. Travis was already headed for the 10-day IL following surgery to repair a meniscus tear in his left knee, but it’s now clear that he’ll miss at least the first two months of the season.
March 24, 4:57pm: Davidi adds in a subsequent tweet that Hudson will receive a $1.5MM base salary, with the ability to earn another $1.5MM in bonuses.
11:52am: The Blue Jays have agreed to a one-year, major league contract with reliever Daniel Hudson, per Shi Davidi of Sportsnet. Hudson is a client of Jet Sports Management.
It was a short stay in team-less limbo for Hudson, whom the Angels released from his minor league contract Friday. Hudson struggled during the spring as a member of the Halos, with whom he allowed five earned runs and three home runs over 6 2/3 innings. But that didn’t deter Toronto, whose bullpen has been in flux of late. The Blue Jays just said goodbye to John Axford and have been dealing with injuries to fellow relievers Ryan Tepera and Bud Norris.
Hudson, a hard-throwing, 32-year-old journeyman, spent last season with the Dodgers and posted a 4.11 ERA/4.38 FIP with 8.61 K/9, 3.52 BB/9 and a 37.2 percent groundball rate over 46 innings. It was the latest passable showing from Hudson, who owns a 4.58 ERA/4.02 FIP with 8.98 K/9, 3.58 BB/9 over 241 2/3 lifetime frames as a reliever.
This probably means bad news for Ryan Tepera’s elbow. Hudson is a good potential sign and trade at deadline guy though.
Nevermind. Tepera is fine.
Blue Jays will sign Rollie Fingers next…mustaches will be the next “in thing” in Toronto…..
Just a body to fill out a jersey on a bad team with injury problems. Blue Jays are not willing to give any younger, inexperienced pitcher an opportunity during a lost season. Daniel Hudson is the type of player they’d sign. The team had an opportunity and open spot for Travis Bergen and left him unprotected. He might get lit up. He would have been the 2nd lefty and a pitcher deserving of a chance over the veteran AAAA pitchers (Hauschild, Drake, Hudson, Adams).
Meh, this is a great signing with high potential. There, a glass half full approach to this.
This front office has had a lot of success buying low and selling high on guys like this. Hudson certainly fits the mold and if all works out well they’ll have another high upside lotto ticket to add to the future.
Bullpen arms bring little to nothing back. Hudson fits the mold of being released by May.
Idk even a return like Pannone and Taylor has value. If either turns into an average player the Jays received lots of value based on a no risk signing. Same kind of goes for Oh and Loup. There’s really no downside at all if it means getting some decent lotto tickets.
Yeah. We know how often lotto ticket pay off.
Yeah Edwin Encarnacion and Jose Bautista didn’t turn out well
Ummm….Edwin was traded for a fringe Hall of Famer in Scott Rolen.
Technically correct, but Edwin was a throw in that at the time it was said the Reds insisted the Jays take. He was hitting .209 and positionless. The real targets in the deal were Josh Roenicke and Zach Stewart who didn’t do anything.
JD. They should be trying to keep improving via drafting just like bichette and Vlad jr. Even if Stroman and Sanchez bounce back they still won’t be doing well in this division Red Sox and Yanks are too dominate.
everyone in the free world knows the Jays aren’t expecting to be giant killers this year. this is a long term ride for that organisation not a win now ideology. BOS cannot stay dominant for long. they haven’t resigned kimbrel. ZB JD and mookie will all be looking at more money and they just paid sale so that team will be disassembling. HOU is in the same boat. in this era for the avg franchise you have 3-4 years of world series hunting sustainability. this isnt about beating NYY HOU or BOS this year.
Kimbrel was god awful and caused everyone’s blood pressure to go up when he came in hence why he wasn’t brought back. Big there is no way Boston would disassemble . Houston just locked up Bergman and Verlander so your one of the best third baseman’s in the game and pitchers. Neither team is going anywhere both have boatloads of talent to compete for years. Of course it’s not but realistically I’d be shocked if the Jays put up another World Series in my life time I’ve seen 2 but it’s just not gonna happen with cheapario!!!
kimbrel is historically one of the best relievers in baseball. its not his ability that is keeping BOS from signing him it’s the length of term. any team he plays for gets instantly better in the 9th inning. thats not debatable. Cole Springer and Correa will need to be paid in the next couple of years. BOS is almost hitting luxury tax thresholds they will not pay everyone. its dollars and cents.
Every player fades. I’m sure every reader can give at least ten CL who suddenly faded. I suspect that teams interested in Craig Kimbrel see that too, especially for his reputed asking cost.
The mlb draft is such a crap shoot, the highest paid player in North America (mike trout) went 20th overall, 19 teams passed on him, trying to purely build through the draft is hard to do
I think if Stroman and Sanchez pitch to their potential, Jays should keep both because they’d be entering their prime and with no great arms in the system both would be around for stability for all the young bats in the next few years. Just an opinion.
Hoperfully the Jays can produce enough guys to get the ball across the plate, even if the pitchers got to roll it up there.
Canada full of Curling champions.
The only thing they will produce is $5 beers and $1 hot dog nights that tells you it’s gonna be a long season. Stroman needs to shut up and just pitch he talks too much
Thanks big I let ya have that one I know he is I’m aware I watch a ton of sports and have the Rogers sports pak. I eat sleep breathe Red Sox. I’m aware of this thank you for education the unaware people. I see another ring in the near future for Boston.
Hudson probably won’t do great, but it’s a low risk signing. He’ll probably be back on the Dodgers by the end of the year.
I wish the Tigers had taken a chance on Daniel Hudson.
Going, Going Gone! Thanks Daniel Hudson.
Detroit 2, Jays 0 Homeopener in the 10th.
Jays 5-20 to start this season
Ahh….. tanking. Ahem….rebuilding.
Danny Barnes could have done that. Expect more of this from Daniel Hudson. Never been good. Never.
I like Atkins and Shapiro for their farm system building and drafting abilities but their ability to scout at the MLB level is scarily poor. They have hit on a few but missed on a whole lot. Don’t like them odds.
Fyi I am still hearing about significant front office changes coming. Not sure what is going on though. At least one departure.
I look forward to Sanchez pitching this year. I hear he is managing the finger better and he should be lights out.
I always liked Barnes too. Not the same since his injury. We need a long stretch of seeing him at the MLB to re-evaluate.
I wonder if Devon Travis could be an elite DH? When he is hitting, he is awesome and can carry a lineup. Trouble is his fielding and injuries,
I’d keep Travis in AAA if that allows Vlad to come up mid-late April. Travis should have been in-mind for DH after the 2016 season instead of signing Morales, Pearce and Bautista. Dumb. That would have also allowed Donaldson and Tulo to DH from time to time. Cater to your stars above 30. No brainer.
I don’t mind guys in the bullpen that have seen some success (Norris, Phelps), but not Hudson or Adams. They have no right to be placed ahead of current Blue Jays when they haven’t proved anything at the major league level to deserve it. I’d rather see a system arm (Romano, Bergen, oh wait….) or a Danny Barnes as a bounce back candidate. Depth should only be brought in to fill Buffalo’s roster, not Toronto.
Hudson threw such a fat one over the plate that my grandmother could have hit it out.