The Rays have signed left-hander Sean Gilmartin to a minor league contract, The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal reports (Twitter link). Gilmartin’s deal contains an invitation to the Rays’ big league spring camp.
Gilmartin only pitched 2 1/3 MLB innings last season, completing his two-season tenure in Baltimore with a 4.30 ERA, 4.9 K/9, and 4.0 BB/9 over 29 1/3 total frames. After an impressive rookie season with the Mets in 2015, Gilmartin has only tossed 50 1/3 total innings at the Major League level, pitching for New York and Baltimore while also having a brief stint in the Cardinals’ farm system.
The 28th overall pick of the 2011 amateur draft, Gilmartin has yet to make much of an impact in the Show, though he has held left-handed batters to a .251/.312/.339 slash line over the small sample size of 200 plate appearances. The Rays can use Spring Training a chance to evaluate the 29-year-old and see if he might yet be a candidate for their bullpen, or at least be for Triple-A depth given how the Rays like to shuffle relievers up and down from the minors.
December 18, 2013: Gilmartin Traded by the Atlanta Braves to the Minnesota Twins for Ryan Doumit.
Doumit in 2014 than received 150 at bats from the Braves and hit under the Mendoza line with 5 homers. This was his last year in the bigs.
That’s a name I haven’t heard in quite some time.
And he pitched decent for the Twins in AAA but never made the 40-man roster, and the Mets pulled him in the Rule 5 draft. So in a certain sense, the Doumit/Gilmartin trade was wholly inconsequential for the teams involved.
Ryan Doumit! Holy cow that’s a flash back
Ryan “No Mitt” was one of my favorite derogatory fan nicknames at the time.
They must want Gilmartin to pitch batting practice? That guy is awful.
In retrospect, Braves prob should have kept him. During the time period he was most successful in the pros was roughly when the Braves were rebuilding and didn’t have good bullpen arms. I mean, the biggest crime overall was when we drafted him and other players we could have gotten instead