The Cleveland Indians today announced the club has signed right-handed pitcher Jamey Wright to a free agent minor league contract with a non-roster invitation to Major League spring training camp.
Wright, 35, led the Kansas City Royals with 65 relief appearances in 2009, going 3-5 with a 4.33 ERA (79.0 IP, 73 H, 38 ER, 44 BB, 60 K) and limited Major League hitters to a .247 (73-285) average against. He also led the Royals with 79.0 relief innings pitched (7th most in the AL) and recorded an ERA of 3.72 (29.0 IP, 22 H, 12 ER) over his last 25 appearances after August 1st. He spent the entire 2008 season in the Texas Rangers bullpen and led the Rangers with a career-high 75 appearances (T3rd most in the AL). His combined 163.1 relief innings over the 2008-09 seasons are a Major League-high while his 140 appearances are 5th most in the AL.
Wright owns a career Major League record of 82-115 with a 5.03 ERA in 420 games (246 starts, 1702.0 IP, 1847 H, 951 ER, 843 BB, 940 K) with six Major League teams since debuting with the Colorado Rockies in 1996. He was Colorado’s first round pick (28th overall selection) in the 1993 draft out of Westmoore (OK) High School. He won a career-high 11 games for the Milwaukee Brewers in 2001.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Indians Sign Jamey Wright
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2 comments:
Did they get the right Wright to training camp? Tony, why is it that Steven Wright doesn't appear on the invite to ML sprint training? I was going to ask this earlier when they added Hermann but this is getting insulting to Steven that he is left off with this long list of rejects from other clubs coming in.
Per PD --
The Indians have invited 17 players to spring training including pitchers Mike Gosling, Jason Grilli, Frank Hermann, Yohan Pino, Anthony Reyes, Saul Rivera, Alex White and Wright.
Yeah, I listed the NRI guys last week in my Putnam/Judy note. There only have been a handful of guys invited from inside the organization to big league camp....but overall there are a lot of guys.
The thing is, the 40-man roster is very young and already will have a lot of young pitchers there in camp. I mean they already have the likes of Todd, Herrmann, Ambriz, and Talbot on the 40-man there to battle for a bullpen spot, and then Judy/Putnam were invited. Only so many innings and only so many guys that they can look at.
That said, I am curious to see how Wright, Stiller, Tomlin, and Wagner are used this year. Those guys deserve a shot, but looks like they have been passed over. I hope Jamey Wright doesn't push a guy back to Akron again. We'll see!
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