The A’s claimed right-hander Tyler Cyr off waivers from the Phillies on Wednesday, per announcements from both teams. Cyr was designated for assignment on Monday when Philadelphia selected lefty Michael Plassmeyer’s contract from Triple-A.
Cyr, 29, made his big league debut with the Phils earlier in the year, though it spanned just one appearance and three hitters. He yielded a pair of hits, including a home run to Brandon Nimmo, and retired the other batter he faced. It was the tiniest of samples, but Cyr flashed a heater that averaged 94.9 mph that day, while also featuring a cutter and changeup.
It’s been an otherwise solid year for Cyr in Triple-A, where he’s logged a 2.50 ERA with a 24.8% strikeout rate, a 12.1% walk rate and a 51.1% grounder rate in 36 frames of relief work. This is his first season in an organization other than the Giants, who selected him in the tenth round of the 2015 draft and oversaw his development for parts of six seasons.
Cyr has now appeared in parts of three Triple-A seasons, pitching to a 3.62 ERA with a 28.3% strikeout rate and 12.9% walk rate in that time. He’s in the first of three minor league option seasons, as this marked the first time his contract has been selected to an MLB roster.
Potentially the worst Philly pitcher in history. Simply because he had 1 appearance and it was nightmarish.
Seriously?? You are going to make a claim like that based on ONE WHOLE appearance?
I clarified it right there in the original statement. I think it’s lame he doesn’t get another shot. I’m not saying he’s the worst based on talent or anything. He had one shot and got cremated and doesn’t get another opportunity with the team. Based on that, it’s one of the worst performances in team history. Is it fair? No.
2 hits in 1/3 of a inning is not the worse. By the way the A’s thank the Phillies for Cole Irving who is a solid starter. He gave up 11 hits in 3 innings in 2020 and now 3.33 ERA with almost a 1 WHIP. after a solid season last year.
One of the hits was a gane losing homer.
Texas and Anaheim could learn a lesson from this, it’s bizarre how they go into nearly every season with such high confidence in a small pool of mediocre starters. That’s always been the Texas MO but the Angels are wasting so many good years of Ohtani and Trout.
Before you make that statement, Look up Dave Wallace. Pitched for the Phil’s early 70s,went on to be a fantastic pitching coach.
A lot of people are missing the joke. Cyr threw two pitches. One was a game losing homer.
Don’t cyr Tyler it will be okay
Full Name: Tyler O’Neil Cyr
Pronunciation: \SEAR\
Nice try Tacoshells
Full context: “Joke”
Pronunciation: \Joke\
Nice try, Curly.
Lousy “joke” Steinbrenner2728
\choke\ on your part
I would say familia was worse. Who knows were you would be if you signed a good reliever instead of him.
Familia had more appearances. Most terrible. Some good. Cyr has 1 appearance. It was real bad. Cyr certainly has more upside than Familia.
Mike Zagurski
You can’t be Cyr-ious.
Now that’s the way to make a play on words, well done
A’s should be busy Claiming lefthanded Batters instead of Pitchers.
Our recent Platoon lineups, facing RIght-handed Pitchers, is embarrssing = Kemp, Vogt, Stevenson, Machin, etc. A bunch of 4A players, playing almost every game, and batting under .200 and slugging under .300.
Seth Brown is currently our only Lefty Batter with some juice in his Bat. Find some more.
Luv Stephen Vogt, and what he has done for the Franchise in years’ past, but … he should have Retired before the season.
Anyways, prior to next season, find some Lefty batters with more thunder, or rush Double-A prospects Logan Davidson and Kyle McCann to the big leagues.
They have plenty of time to gear up for the 2027 season.
Good hitters > left handed hitters
A’s should claim anybody they think has a shot of being a contributing major leaguer, at this point we aren’t really building a team for immediate contention.
Drat
Not sure what’s more embarrassing … a home game with an announced crowd of 2000 that is clearly overstated or a game featuring a couple in the upper deck having sex but nobody notices since there is nobody within 5 sections.
It’s time to end this new waterfront ballpark charade in Oakland and move this team to Las Vegas or someplace else. Oakland can’t support any professional sports team and with the increased costs for tickets at a new stadium, they won’t draw enough fans over the long run to support their investment no matter how nice the new ballpark is or how good the team is.
Yeah, the Giants ownership you speak on behalf of sure would love that, right?
Its A’s/Marlins. Neither are contending. What kind of crowd do you expect? Why don’t you trash the Marlins and Rays in the same way? Its just the same boring phony “trash California” narrative the national right wing media loves to always push in literally every arena, even MLB.
Kick this Oakland relocation nonsense to the curb and instead focus on the two teams who really might move: Arizona and Cleveland.
The A’s or any other MLB team wont think about moving to Las Vegas anyway. No MLB team these days would want to give up their position in a top-25 market for the 40th largest TV market in the United States. The LV relocation thing was Manfred’s bargaining chip to have both sides at least work towards something to get a stadium deal done. This isn’t NFL/NBA/NHL where teams and markets have next to little effect in how a team is run and how it affects their incomes in comparison to baseball (due to more reliance on nationally televised games and length of season and all that). So why is it then that we’ve only had the Expos relocation in 1998? Compared to the numerous relocations other leagues have had?
Nobody goes to Vegas to see a game. That is the problem for them is nobody wants a team there but a casino owner with lots of money to waste.
Yea, but the casinos would comp all sorts of high end luxury boxes. I’ve read that’s the major source of income for live attendance at stadiums (obviously not including tv deals). Still… I don’t think many people want to play in a boiling during the day/freezing at night desert.
Definitely agree. Checkout the secondary market for tickets to the Knights, or even worse da Raiders! $300+ for nosebleeds
Could be worse, could have a fanbase that still attends games when the ownership’s behavior is so embarrassing. We don’t want a Pittsburgh or Cincinatti situation.
It’s a bit ironic that those are the two best ballparks I have ever been to.
stat,
If you’re having sex at the ballpark, the upper deck seems like as good place as any. And give them credit for taking advantage of the low attendance privacy.
Oh wait a minute, a’s and marlins are a huge blah that nobody wants to see, that’s right. That explains the low attendance totals. Wait a minute though, 10,559 isn’t a bad crowd even for these two going nowhere cellar-dwellers, right? Oh wait another minute …. 10,559 was the total attendance for all 3 games … oh wow …. never mind, that is a truly horrid 3500 fans per game. WOW!!!
Statman why are you still angry that A’s coach didn’t sign your baseball? Give it a rest. You only come here to bash the A’s. Most people get over it but you still mad Chavez never signed that ball for you. Its been 20 years. Give it a rest.