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The Mariners announced theyve claimed reliever off waivers from the division-rival Rangers. Seattle designated righty for a signment to open a spot on the 40-man roster. The Ms also announced that trade pickup has joined the team and will step into the MLB bullpen. lands on the 15-day injured list, retroactive to August 1, with biceps inflammation. Hernndez, 28, changes teams for the first time in his career. He spent more than a decade as a member of the Rangers organization after signing in January 2013. Hernndez reached the big leagues in the second half of the 2019 season, not long after his 23rd birthday. The right-hander had a couple solid seasons to start his MLB career. He turned in a 2.90 ERA acro s 31 innings during the shortened 2020 schedule. He lost the entire following season after undergoing Tommy John surgery in April 21. Hernndez returned for the second half in 2022 and looked to be picking up where hed left off. He to sed 30 1/3 frames of 2.97 ERA ball for the stretch run. He picked up four saves and 10 holds while Gary Sheffield Jersey finishing 16 games as a medium-leverage reliever. Things have gone downhill over the past two seasons. Hernndez struggled to a 5.40 earned run average a year ago. Texas shuttled him back and forth between Triple-A on a few occasions, burning his final minor league option in the proce s. That meant the Rangers needed to keep him on the MLB roster this season. Texas gave Hernndez plenty of runway, affording him 41 innings acro s 26 appearances, but his results didnt turn around. He allowed a 5.05 ERA with a career-worst 19.9% strikeout percentage and a lofty 14.4% walk rate. The Rangers pushed him out of their bullpen (and thus off the 40-man roster) on Tuesday with their deadline pickup of from the Tigers. Seattle will try to help Hernndez right the ship. Theyll also need to keep him on the big league roster unle s they decide to designate him for a signment themselves. Hernndez still averages nearly 97 MPH on his sinker and mi ses a decent number of bats with his slider. That solid raw stuff has too often been undercut by poor command, but theres minimal cost for the Ms in taking a look. Theyre a suming a little le s than $400K on his $1.245MM salary for the stretch run. Hernndez would be under arbitration control for another two seasons if he holds his bullpen spot in Seattle. The Mariners added de Geus to their 40-man roster back in April. He has made four big league appearances, working 3 1/3 frames of one-run ball. Seattle has mostly kept the 26-year-old on optional a signment to Triple-A Tacoma, where he has allowed a 6.60 ERA acro s 30 innings in the Pacific Coast League. de Geus is a former teammate of Hernndez with the 21 Rangers, who plucked him from the Dodgers in the Rule 5 draft. He combined for 50 innings of 7.56 ERA ball between the Rangers and Diamondbacks that season and didnt get back to the big leagues until this year. Seattle will likely put him on waivers this weekend. As for Santos, the offseason trade pickup mi sed most of the first half due to a lat strain. He returned to make six appearances before leaving Wednesdays appearance with biceps sorene s. Hell mi s at least the next two weeks, though Ryan Divish of the Seattle Times fortunately this afternoon that imaging came back clean. Daniel Hudson Jersey |
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