The White Sox announced that they have claimed right-hander Yohan Ramirez off waivers from the Pirates. The righty will report to Triple-A Charlotte, per Daryl Van Schouwen of the Chicago Sun-Times. Chicago’s 40-man roster count is now at 39.
Ramirez, 28, has generally combined high strikeout and ground ball tallies in his career while also giving out his fair share of walks. In 34 1/3 innings for the Pirates this year, he had a 3.67 earned run average, striking out 20% of batters faced while walking 9% and keeping the ball on the ground at a 59% clip. In 22 1/3 innings at the Triple-A level, he had a 4.43 ERA, 33% strikeout rate, 12.4% walk rate and 54.2% ground ball rate.
The Bucs designated him for assignment last week to make room on the roster for their September call-ups and the White Sox have decided to grab him. The latter club had a couple of open roster spots anyway, having recently bumped out-of-options players Seby Zavala and Brent Honeywell Jr. off their roster. They have used one of those open roster spot to grab an intriguing arm to add to their depth.
Ramirez is in his final option season, meaning the Sox can stash him at Charlotte for the rest of the year while they get a look at him, but he will be out of options next year. If he continues to hold onto his roster spot, he can be retained for four more seasons beyond the current campaign.
It’s funny because it’s bigger than a normal-sized hat.
Hey, look what I found backstage!
I certainly laughed, great pic!
Rob Manfred and New Era want this pic taken down
Get him the glove from Mickey Hatcher’s 86 fleer card
New pitching coach will fix him right up .
Oscar Moran has fixed every pitcher with potential on the Bucs, so I’m not sure what the W-Sox pitching coach can do that hasn’t already been tried
Just don’t look and see what Stephenson Wilson Holmes are doing.
Stephanson pitched well last year but was getting torched this year and your buddy BC saw a chance to get a slick fielding young shortstop for a pitcher who had bounced around and was going to be a free agent.
Holmes was useless in Pittsburgh for both pitching coaches and the trade and him shaving his face evidently made a difference.He always had great stuff but walked way too many people,just like Ramirez.
I thought that they should have made Wilson a reliever and kept him but they gave up on him too soon.The Brewers were smart enough to make him a 2-3 inning pitcher.
I wish Ramirez luck and he has great stuff but the Pirates are running out of open spots on the roster.
Huh? This isn’t TB or the LAD. Katz did a pretty good job with pitchers his first couple of years with the Sox. He did get Gio so good that he got some Cy Young votes one year. Now look at him. On Katz’s behalf, it’s got to be hard to make anything of pitchers who were dropped from teams with under a .500 record. So much for yet another Reinsdorf lie about going after FA. Never gonna happen.
DFA Chris Getz & Jeremy Haber.
SupremeZeus: Getz got the job almost immediately after Hahn and Williams were fired. Reinsdorf lie number 102: “I know the people out there who are good, but Getz has been here 7 years and knows the organization.” He appointed Getz before interviewing anyone. During his time with KC and Chicago, he drove both team’s farm systems into the ground. What they need is someone from outside of the organization, someone with fresh eyes who can see the tons of problems this team has. Even if it took the new guy a year to learn the players throughout the org., which it wouldn’t, there would be changes in the personnel because it’s not hard to see who doesn’t belong on the team and in the minors.
That’s another thing. The Sox, Despite consistently drafting in the top half of the draft have a Farm system that sucks. So who do they give the GM job to? Yep The guy who was in charge of Scouting. You can’t make this crap up. KMN.
What’s the definition of Mass Confusion? Answer- Chicago White Sox. They had a great plan didn’t they? Drop and trade everyone on their team and scour the waiver wire for future stars. Awesome. Because the waiver wire is a better place to look than their own farm system apparently. Well played gents.
Why rush development and service time. No reason to try and win games at this point. Get draft lottery odds.
What’s the point of getting better draft picks? Most of the decent players they have are either international signings or acquired by trade. They’ve drafted like crap for years.
Will hit on a draft pick sometime. Higher the pick better the odds.
You would think so, but remember, these are the White Sox. They don’t have anyone with enough brains to know how to pick good prospects. That includes their scouts, who Reinsdorf probably fired and instead walked the halls after games and told the ladies to put down their mops and report to the scouting department. I see nothing good coming from this Reinsdorf led team until the Angels sing.
One of the worst run teams for sure. Why not root for another team? Got a good team in same city. My childhood team kept making and still does awful decisions. I picked 2 smart teams who have a similar management style to myself to root for.
In a few drafts, there’s been a pretty clear #1 or top 2 or something. I think the drafting is only part of the problem. The Chris Getz-led development team couldn’t get players MLB ready after drafting them.
And they seem to have picked well with Schultz and Montgomery. Will have to see if/when they get to the majors, but certainly doing pretty good so far.
He’s young, still has time work out kinks. We need aaalllll help we can get
Outstanding sinker and sweeper. Just very inconsistent command. One game he’ll look like he could take over a closer role. The next, he would struggle to hit the broad side of a barn.
mlb1225: Perfect description of the kind of pitcher the Sox are looking for.
Pretty lethal Mossad agent, hiding out all this time in Pittsburg as a hairdresser
Dumpster Divin’ Chrissy!
Pittsburgh didn’t need him is enough said.