Julio Teheran has elected free agency after clearing waivers, tweets Anthony DiComo of MLB.com. The Mets had designated him for assignment on Tuesday.
Teheran’s stint as a Met couldn’t have been much shorter. The veteran righty agreed to terms on a major league deal on April 3, a move that was announced by the team two days later. Skipper Carlos Mendoza tabbed him for a start in Atlanta on Monday. Teheran allowed four runs without making it out of the third inning and was DFA one day later.
While it wasn’t the most productive tenure, Teheran banked a major league salary for around a week. His contract called for a prorated $2.5MM salary for time spent in the majors, so he collected upwards of $80K. That’s a decent outcome for a player who had opted out of a minor league pact with the Orioles at the end of Spring Training.
The 33-year-old now sets out in search of his third organization of the 2024 campaign. He may need to settle for a minor league contract this time around, but he should find interest from teams looking for experienced rotation depth. Teheran started 11 of 14 appearances with the Brewers last season, allowing 4.40 earned runs per nine innings.
That was Teheran’s heaviest workload at the major league level since 2019. A two-time All-Star during his nine-year tenure with the Braves, he has pitched for four clubs since the start of the ’20 campaign. Over the last four-plus seasons, Teheran owns a 6.10 ERA with a well below-average 16.1% strikeout rate against a solid 7.2% walk percentage.
Teheran, a two-time all-star, had a spectacular win of the last game at Turner field. But he is 4-9 with a negative cumulatve WAR of -0.4 since January 2020.
Is it just me or is it actually surprising he’s only 33 years old?
This guy is bugging! He’s would have been called back up soon. He just threw guaranteed money away.
There is at least 1 idiot Braves fan who thinks the Braves should sign him
@Should Have Acquired Dylan Cease
You would have traded Acuna, ‘trade Acuna’, and you would have given up plenty just for Cease, imagine talking about “1 idiot Braves fan who thinks the Braves should sign Julio”, the irony indeed.. You’re not a Braves fan though, that much is certain, it’s time to change your username again.
Close, but honestly, at this point, win or lose, my passion is declining for the team. They didn’t fix the root problem and now feeling the impact of it.
@ Should Have Acquired Dylan Cease
“Close, but honestly, at this point, win or lose, my passion is declining for the team”.
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Hilarious sarcasm and irony.
I’m sure he would have did better then winans last night.
@Mets6986 If you’re referring to Julio, I agree.
And some folks here were arguing that he would collect the full $2.5MM.
Paraphrasing: “STEVE COHEN IS SUCH AN IDIOT LOLMETS”
Time for the Rays to step in?
What happened to this guy? His first 222 starts had an ERA+ of 111 with seven years in a row of at least 30 starts.
Five awful seasons after that with only 110 innings…
Heard he stopped juicing
It’s usually when they continue to throw 95+ mph into their late 30’s/early 40’s that they’re juicing in my opinion. Teheran is just showing the normal effects of pitching several years in MLB.
Liberalsteve
Based on the eye test, Julio never used PEDs. No other red flags in his profile.
Where did you allegedly “hear” that?
@MannyBeingMVP,
Maybe @Liberalsteve is raising the issue of Julio Teheran no longer making healthy drinks from liquified fruits and vegetables? Let’s give him the benefit of the doubt.
To me Liberal Steve is calling Julio Teheran a cheater. So I would like to hear the source of this strong accusation. Julio started young and has failed to fully bounce back, I have everything to think that he is just bad now, and zero reason to think that he ever cheated as Liberal Steve alleges.
I’m good buddies with one of the “lower” prospects of the braves when Teheran was a top prospect. He hinted to me that Teheran was shady in that stuff
Reds need bullpen help.
Red Sox could definitely use him right now with all the injuries, maybe Bailey could teach him new tricks too..
80k for one game has to be the most expensive player in MLB history?
Not even close. Today’s top starters get more than $1 million per start.
I guess you didn’t do very well in your math classes.
Teheran looked really good on his first game… for about 2 innings. Maybe he should move to a reliever
The Mets should’ve just brought up one of the young pitchers instead of Teheran,
They couldn’t. They had to wait 15 days to call them up.