Series Thread: Rangers at the Big Apple for four, 6/27-6/30

[Bmurph]

Athletics Claim Nick Tepesch, Designate Eric Surkamp

By Jeff Todd | June 27, 2016 at 5:55pm CDT

The Athletics have claimed righty Nick Tepesch off waivers from the Dodgers, per a club announcement. Oakland designated lefty Eric Surkamp to clear a roster spot.

Tepesch made a spot start for Los Angeles, marking his first major league outing since 2014. He was far from dominant, but obviously showed enough for Oakland to desire his services. Tepesch has battled through injury issues, but provided the Rangers with some good innings over 2013-14 and was carrying a 3.66 ERA at the Triple-A level on the year.

 

[Kelleyman]

Someone forgot to pay the light bill?

Ha thinking if I a, looking for a HR guy. Des and a few others ahead of Prince
Brown out ha

 

[DT LUNA]

Athletics Claim Nick Tepesch, Designate Eric Surkamp

By Jeff Todd | June 27, 2016 at 5:55pm CDT

The Athletics have claimed righty Nick Tepesch off waivers from the Dodgers, per a club announcement. Oakland designated lefty Eric Surkamp to clear a roster spot.

Tepesch made a spot start for Los Angeles, marking his first major league outing since 2014. He was far from dominant, but obviously showed enough for Oakland to desire his services. Tepesch has battled through injury issues, but provided the Rangers with some good innings over 2013-14 and was carrying a 3.66 ERA at the Triple-A level on the year.

Good

 

[Bmurph]

Ogando dfa'd by the Braves?

Braves Designate Alexi Ogando For Assignment

By Steve Adams | June 27, 2016 at 2:24pm CDT

The Braves have designated right-hander Alexi Ogando for assignment and recalled right-hander Mauricio Cabrera from Double-A Mississippi, the team announced this afternoon.

Ogando, 32, currently has a respectable 3.94 ERA through 32 innings of work out of the Atlanta bullpen, but he’s registered that mark in spite of averaging a whopping 6.5 walks per nine innings. He’s been particularly ineffective over his past 10 outings, yielding nine runs (seven earned) on seven hits and nine walks across just seven innings. The 8.2 K/9 rate he’s posted this season is his best since 2012, and he’s still averaging 94 mph on his fastball, but ERA estimators such as FIP (4.38), xFIP (5.45) and SIERA (5.13) all feel that there’s some significant regression in store for the former Rangers and Red Sox hurler.

Ogando has been the subject of some trade chatter over the past month, so perhaps Atlanta will be able to find a taker for him. However, if the team ultimately outrights him, Ogando has enough service time to reject the assignment in favor of free agency without forfeiting the remainder of his $2MM salary. He’s still owed about $1.06MM of that sum through season’s end, and the Braves will be on the hook for the majority of that unless they can find a trade partner. If he does become a free agent and latch on with another Major League club, he’ll earn the pro-rated portion of the league minimum for any time spent on a new team’s Major League roster, and that money will be subtracted from the sum still owed to him by Atlanta. In parts of seven big league seasons, Ogando has a career 3.47 ERA with 7.3 K/9, 3.3 BB/9 and a 38.8 percent ground-ball rate across 503 1/3 innings.

 

[WastinSomeTime]

Mitch needed to lay off that 2-0 pitch. Was ball 3.

 

[darrylgann]

Braves Designate Alexi Ogando For Assignment

By Steve Adams | June 27, 2016 at 2:24pm CDT

The Braves have designated right-hander Alexi Ogando for assignment and recalled right-hander Mauricio Cabrera from Double-A Mississippi, the team announced this afternoon.

Ogando, 32, currently has a respectable 3.94 ERA through 32 innings of work out of the Atlanta bullpen, but he’s registered that mark in spite of averaging a whopping 6.5 walks per nine innings. He’s been particularly ineffective over his past 10 outings, yielding nine runs (seven earned) on seven hits and nine walks across just seven innings. The 8.2 K/9 rate he’s posted this season is his best since 2012, and he’s still averaging 94 mph on his fastball, but ERA estimators such as FIP (4.38), xFIP (5.45) and SIERA (5.13) all feel that there’s some significant regression in store for the former Rangers and Red Sox hurler.

Ogando has been the subject of some trade chatter over the past month, so perhaps Atlanta will be able to find a taker for him. However, if the team ultimately outrights him, Ogando has enough service time to reject the assignment in favor of free agency without forfeiting the remainder of his $2MM salary. He’s still owed about $1.06MM of that sum through season’s end, and the Braves will be on the hook for the majority of that unless they can find a trade partner. If he does become a free agent and latch on with another Major League club, he’ll earn the pro-rated portion of the league minimum for any time spent on a new team’s Major League roster, and that money will be subtracted from the sum still owed to him by Atlanta. In parts of seven big league seasons, Ogando has a career 3.47 ERA with 7.3 K/9, 3.3 BB/9 and a 38.8 percent ground-ball rate across 503 1/3 innings.

Good luck latching on to any other team.

 

[darrylgann]

Not even the first time around, Chi Chi

 

[Bmurph]

gotta keep it down Cheech

 

[DT LUNA]

Stay calm Gonzo

 

[Bmurph]

he keeps throwing them there and he won't be long for this game

 

[Bmurph]

good play Roog

 

[darrylgann]

Not too bad, Chi Chi.

 

[WastinSomeTime]

Offense will have to be on tonight.

 

[DT LUNA]

Need a hit Choo

 

[darrylgann]

Need a hit Choo

Will that do?

 

[Bmurph]

atta boy Choo, nice AB

 

[Bmurph]

Got it done Ian

 

[Bmurph]

Offense will have to be on tonight.

Hopefully their pitching will keep us close too

 

[Bmurph]

that won't get it done Maz

 

[DT LUNA]

Maz should have walked.