We’ll kick off the morning here with a pair of recently DFA’ed players who’ve cleared waivers and remained with their prior clubs…
- Right-hander Mike Mayers went unclaimed on outright waivers and was assigned to Triple-A Salt Lake by the Angels. While he has enough service time to reject that assignment in favor of free agency, Sam Blum of The Athletic tweets that Mayers has accepted the assignment. That’s entirely unsurprising, because although Mayers has sufficient service time to reject the outright, he does not have the requisite five years of service time needed to also retain the remainder of his salary upon rejection. In other words, rejecting the assignment would’ve meant forfeiting the remainder of this year’s $2.15MM salary. Mayers, 30, posted a 3.34 ERA, a 30.5% strikeout rate and an 8.0% walk rate in 105 innings with the Angels from 2020-21, leading to that $2.15MM payday in arbitration. The 2022 season has been a struggle, however. In 16 2/3 frames, he’s allowed four home runs and seen his strikeout rate plummet to 18.7% — all en route to a 5.40 ERA. The Angels designated him for assignment last week.
- The Mariners announced that right-hander Riley O’Brien cleared waivers and has been assigned outright to Triple-A Tacoma. Seattle picked O’Brien up in an April trade that promised a PTBNL to the Reds, and the two parties completed that swap this week when Seattle sent 20-year-old Rookie-ball infielder Luis Chevalier to Cincinnati. O’Brien, 27, threw one scoreless inning for the Mariners and has a 2.70 ERA with 14 punchouts in 10 Triple-A frames so far, but he’s also walked 11 hitters in that time. Seattle moved him to the bullpen after he’d spent the bulk of his pro career as a starter in the Rays’ and Reds’ systems. He’ll continue to work on his adjustment to a relief role in Tacoma but will no longer occupy a spot on the Mariners’ 40-man roster.
Fire Maddon!
Yep. The Angels have a six man staff and he’s won’t let his starters pitch and can’t handle a bullpen. Which means he doesn’t blow one game out of 8 he blows 5.
Horrible manager.
Chillll, yall were ruining your knickers with glee three weeks ago. This is a rough patch, we’re probably not the best team in the league (early season) and were probably not a .500 team (now). This team is going to the playoffs and equally importantly, it seems like the future is bright.
We lost like 5 games due to bullpen meltodwns. Thats normally a random thing.
No I wasn’t. Nice strawman. You can’t make a point so you flat out lie.
My opinion of Maddon is the same as Epstein and Friedman. He has no clue what he is doing…none.
If you don’t see that, that’s on you. He’s the cause of the rough patch. Ortega pitching the 8th? How’d that happen? Oh yeah, it’s because he doesn’t le starting pitcher go five let alone 6.
Rengifo made a great play, then makes a poor throw to a player who shouldn’t be playing shortstop. So a middle infield that can’t play defense, a dp is blown, and next thing you know there is a three run home run. And wham, out of the game. That’s all on Maddon. These guys are not good enough to be playing middle infield. And Maddon is too stupid to be a major league manager.
fire effin’ maddon! sell the team, arte!
MLB is stealing baseball from the American public by trying to maximize profits.
Hotdogs are the traditional food at baseball games for a reason. Baseball belongs to the working class.
NOW THEY SERVE CHAMPAGNE IN THE EXCLUSIVE SKY BOXES……
NOW THEY HAVE RUINED THE MINOR LEAGUES FOR
THE WORKING MAN, TOO!
A BUNCH OF RICH, PRIVILEGED , SELFISH GREEDY, ALPHABET HOLES!
Now I get to watch 150+ games on TV a instead of 25 and on tape delay. They didn’t ruin it for me.
And the Angels have promotions that four can go to a game four 44 dollars. That’s a lot less than a tank full of gas.
That is an absolute steal for a major league game. AAA tickets cost more than that in my neck of the woods.
Don’t forget that 4-for-$44 plan includes hot dogs and sodas! Moreno does like to offer a bargain, that deal is nowhere to be found in SD.
If a family of four can go to a ballgame for less than a tankful of gas, that’s pretty darn good. I saw Doctor Strange a couple of weeks ago, it was double that.
These Alphabet hole baseball players want to paid like rock stars?
Guess what?
They ARE NOT ROCK STARS! In fact, they are not nearly as popular, have a MERE FRACTION OF THAT VALUE TO OUR CULTURE!!!!
When was the last time to saw 30-50k screaming people, going apeshite for three hours when the Yankees or even the Dodgers go on”tour”, everyday and anyday of the year?????.
NEVER, NEVER EVER. NOT EVEN AT THE WORLD SERIES!
STOP PAYING THESE SELFISH JERKS LIKE THEY ARE ROCK STARS….
BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT!!!!!!
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Bruh
Even for a message board, this comment is HOF stupid. I love you.
Sir this is a Wendy’s
20 bucks says this is the ‘baseball is no longer relevant in our culture’ dude from the lockout posts. And he’s still posting in a baseball board. LOL.
I was a little surprised Mayers cleared waivers. This year has been rough but I would think a non contending team like the Pirates would do well to claim him and see if they can get him back on track. If you could get him back on track he would be a flippable asset either at the deadline or in the offseason.
He costs two million and will likely not be tendered next year. It could have gone either way.
Mike Mayers assigned to AAA.
It’s All Going Perfectly to Plan !!
Shagadelic, Baby !!
YEAH, BABY !!
Or a perfect early Halloween minor league mask giveaway.
Mayers has always been prone to giving up dingers. He has a good arm but can’t seem to consistently put it all together.
This is likely his career path now. Minors deal, call up and DFA when he implodes. Maybe Japan or Korea would be a better alternative after this season.
I seriously don’t think Maddon will last the season if this continues.
I concur. Joe is on thin ice as Perry expects a winner this year.
As a side note, this wasn’t your intent, but I originally read your comment to mean, if the Angels lose the rest of their games, Joe will be fired.
Ha. I see how my verbiage can be taken that way. More clearly, I think if we fall back to hovering around .500 the rest of the season, Maddon will be gone. We have above .500 talent so in my opinion it falls to in game managing. Mediocrity has been our result for several seasons now. Perry wants to win. Seeing Girardi fired by the Phills, my first thought was Maddon is next.
I like the analysis by Yankee Clipper on another article where he said the Yankees success is coming from allowing their starters to pitch deeper and ignoring the “third time through” nonsense. Maddon should take some notes.