The Red Sox have signed right-hander Tyler Danish to a minor league contract, Tim Dierkes of MLB Trade Rumors reports (Twitter link). The contract contains an invitation to Boston’s big league Spring Training camp.
Danish recently took part in a chat with MLBTR readers, discussing his career and some of the ins and outs of being a professional ballplayer. As Tim wrote at the time, Danish “expects to sign with an MLB team within the next week or so,” and that deal has now come about with the Red Sox. Since Danish was a minor league free agent, the lockout didn’t prohibit him from signing.
A second-round pick for the White Sox in the 2013 draft, Danish posted a 4.85 ERA over 13 innings for Chicago, pitching in parts of the 2016-18 seasons. This represents his only big league experience, as subsequent minor league contracts with the Mariners (prior to the 2019 season) and Angels (last May) didn’t result in another call to the Show. In between those stints in affiliated ball, Danish also pitched for teams in the independent Atlantic League and American Association.
As Danish noted during his chat, he “kinda broke my whole delivery down and almost rebuilt it from the ground up” in 2020, resulting in some interesting numbers during his season in the Angels’ farm system. Mostly a grounder-specialist for the bulk of his career, Danish still posted a 47.1% grounder rate over 60 1/3 innings with Triple-A Salt Lake in 2021, but he also had a strong 25.8% strikeout rate.
Danish also improved his control, though became a little more susceptible to the long ball, with nine home runs allowed over those 60 1/3 frames. He’ll now get a chance to catch on with the Red Sox in Spring Training, with seemingly a decent chance at winning a job given the unsettled nature of the Boston bullpen.
First Straily, now Danish. These chats must be great résumé builders!
“Bartolo Colon on Line 1, Tim”
If these chats are indeed good luck then its time to bring sexy back…
See what happens when John Henry tells Bloom to “get him a Danish”?
Lets hope it works out better than the time the owner said “I hate Baby Ruths”.
Too bad MLBTR wasn’t around in the early 80’s when games at Fenway would immediately go from Rainey to Clear, we would have a field day with it!
Or in the 70’s when Cleveland beat the Guardians.
Have at it, boys.
Thankfully Bloom didn’t hop the first flight to Denmark to go scouting.
No disrespect meant but the only danish worth keeping for an emergency is prune…
With any luck, there will be more than a cup of coffee for Danish.
Can’t wait until they sign Ron Cruller and Jimmy Bear Claw.
Ask and you shall receive:
baseball-reference.com/players/b/barraky01.shtml
He had a 0.00 ERA his senior year of high school with 156 strikeouts in 94 innings. Can’t even do that in MLB The Show
The woman used to walk around here half naked, sucking Colt 45 from a can. Her big fat stomach hanging out, orthopedic hose up to her knees, screaming down the hall, “Come back to bed Albert you big hairy ape! And bring back that box of Danish.”
Drunk and stumblebum!
If he comes with some strong coffee and a glass of orange juice, I’m on board.
I watched this guy pitch in Tacoma a couple years ago. Holy balls, he got lit up
Now you need some Dunkin to go with that Danish.
They should’ve also signed Barraclough to go along with that Danish.
Good Luck Tyler Danish in Boston. For the life of me do not understand why you were not brought last year by Angels
Well done Tyler Danish. The MLBTR community is with you.
His name is Tyler Danish, his name is Tyler Danish.
Press conference scheduled at Bova’s Bakery Tuesday morning.
Todd Coffey saw this and un retired
Was a teammate of Ty Buttrey with the Angels? A Buttrey Danish in the pen.
Toast lol
A cup of coffee for Danish