10:18PM: Anderson will join the Hiroshima Carp of Nippon Professional Baseball, according to a report from Yahoo Japan (Japanese language link). Anderson receives a $300K signing bonus and a $700K salary for the 2022 season.
NOVEMBER 3, 5:45PM: The Rangers have officially announced the move, with team executive VP of communications John Blake (Twitter link) adding that Anderson will be signing with a team in Asia.
OCTOBER 30: The Rangers have released right-hander Drew Anderson, according to the transactions page at MLB.com. Signed to a minor league deal in the winter, he had his contract selected at the end of July to provide an extra arm for the team’s staff after they traded Joely Rodriguez, Ian Kennedy and Kyle Gibson at the trade deadline.
The 27-year-old has seen limited MLB action in five straight seasons now. Coming into this year, he had 22 1/3 big league innings over 2017-2020, and then added 22 further innings in 2021. Despite a miniscule strikeout rate of just 9.9%, he still managed to keep his ERA down to 3.27 over those 22 innings this season. In Triple-A this year, he logged 70 2/3 innings with an ERA of 3.06, strikeout rate of 29.9% and walk rate of 10.1%.
In the offseason, there is no longer any injured list and players on the 60-day IL have to take up a roster spot once again. With the release of Anderson, as well as players heading into free agency and those coming off the IL, the Rangers will have 42 players on their 40-man roster, per Jason Martinez of Roster Resource. That means the Rangers will surely have to do more roster scrubbing in the coming days.
that’s cool, but is his rookie status still intact?
Lol
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Not sure why a team as bad as the Rangers are dropping a decent arm like this.
~6.50 career ERA
Yeah but did pretty well this year in 22 innings in the majors and really well at AAA.
Because he sucks
42 of 40 rosters spots. They’re gonna have to cut 2 more
44 IP in 5 yrs probably doesn’t help. Either hurt a lot or ineffective
just generally bad
Rangers emptied there quota of Anderson’s from last season. Now they will try to be like the Texans and sign every player named Taylor available…
What other Anderson did they have?
Justin and Chase
So now they just need to sign Chris Taylor and trade for Tyrone Taylor?
Trade for Michael Taylor, Josh Taylor, Blake Taylor, and Beau Taylor. And replace Woodward with Jake Taylor or Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor
Who?
They explained that in the article. Can you not read?
Haha it’s over your head dude
When you finish where the Rangers did, you don’t have to “scrub” your 40-man; you need an enema. Really folks, lots and lots of room on 40-man rosters of the Rangers, O’s, Pirates, etc. etc.
It’s great that fans are cognizant of 40-man processes, but many are far too worried about it. MOST rosters have 5-7 players that can be let go without any consequence; many have more. I keep thinking back to Theo, who in 2003 said the only problem with the Red Sox 40-man was that they didn’t have 40 players worth protecting.
And THEY won the World Series a year later..
Speaking of which, RIP Jerry Remy.
This off-season the Rangers need to open the wallet and spend.
They say they will, but I’m not convinced. I expect their big signings to be resigning Lyle’s and 1 of Culbertson and holt
I don’t know. They have lots of young arms on the way and Jung is close. I would suspect they at least take a swipe at Story and a leftfielder.
I understand they have players close to being ready for a shot at the bigs, but why not wait until they have had at least a cup of coffee before spending your money? That way you can know where to spend it.
Instead of agonizing over who to keep on the 40-man roster, the Rangers should be asking whether anyone is worthy to keep at all. It’s an entire roster of mediocrity. Very few teams are in line to snap up the “talent” the Rangers would let go.
That’s true, but it’s also how a rebuild works. Get used to it we probably have 2 more seasons to go, unless 3-4 make giant leaps forward this year
So many pitchers named Anderson. Every team should have one.
“I like Anderson”
“No you dont. Nobody likes him”
What a crazy rollercoaster this has been regarding Trevor Bauer. Surprised that Bauer hasn’t sued the MLB, MLBPA, or LA Dodgers for not letting him play. Then again, he is getting paid regardless of if he plays or not.
What would he sue for? Being blacklisted for being a proven rapist?
Hiroshima? This dude’s gonna be the bomb
Proud of that of that one?
Speaking of the NPB league, I wonder if Tomoyuki Sugano will sign with an MLB team. He was injured and didn’t have a great season in 2021.
He will go and dominate over there next year and the Cardinals will sign him to a 2 year/$20 million deal lol