The Orioles announced a quartet of roster moves this morning, including the news that right-hander Dusten Knight has been designated for assignment. The 40-man roster spot will be filled by righty Thomas Eshelman, whose contract has been selected from Triple-A Norfolk. In addition, the Orioles have called up recent waiver acquisition Brooks Kriske from Triple-A and optioned righty Spenser Watkins to the minors.
Knight is one of many players who made their big league debuts with the 2021 Orioles, as the 31-year-old righty posted a 9.35 ERA over his first 8 2/3 innings in the Show. The Giants selected Knight in the 28th round of the 2013 draft, and after playing in the Giants and Twins farm systems into the 2019 season, Knight pitched in the Mexican League and in independent ball before catching on with Baltimore on a minor league contract this past winter.
Eshelman is back with the O’s after being outrighted off their 40-man roster earlier this season, which marked the third time Eshelman has been DFA’ed and then outrighted during his three seasons with Baltimore. All of Eshleman’s 92 career Major League innings have come in an Orioles uniform, and the righty has struggled to a 5.87 ERA and an 11% strikeout rate over that stretch. This season has been particularly rough, as Eshelman has an 8.02 ERA and more walks (10) than strikeouts (7) over his 21 1/3 innings pitched.
A couple more guys to help the Oriole’s lose.
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Tom Eshelman????? I thought he was on Dancing With The Stars with Sean Spicer!!!!!!!
I presume that Watkins was sent down until he learns how to spell Spencer correctly.
Props to Knight.. made it to the bigs at 31. After independent and ball in Mexico, to sticking on and getting cut by the worse pitching staff in baseball. None the less hope he gets his lifetime medical or whatever he earned.
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Yep. It doesn’t matter how you arrange the deck chair on the Titanic, its still going down.