Tigers sign Mariano Gomez
by Kurt Mensching on Jan 13, 2011 8:57 PM EST
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PrintThe Tigers signed left-handed relief pitcher Mariano Gomez to a minor league deal. OK, like a couple days ago. I'm a bit late to the story.
The Toledo Blade's John Wagner, who has been blogging more frequently about the Mud Hens, shared a little insight on the deal recently at Coop Scoop.
At the most, Gomez could provide a southpaw arm to the Tigers’ bullpen – and with Triple-A ERAs under 3.00 for each of the past three seasons, that’s entirely possible. "He’s got the stuff and the mentality to be in the big leagues right now," Gwinnett pitching coach Derek Botelho said in 2009. Further, Gomez has an intriguing back-story: he’s vying to become just the second player, and first pitcher, from Honduras to play in the major leagues.
Baseball America's Matt Eddy, who reported the signing, tweeted that Gomez has good secondary stuff but no overpowering pitch.
The 28-year-old Gomez has been pretty successful in the Braves' organization over the past few years of Triple-A ball. He had an ERA of 1.99 in 2009 and 2.89 (or 3.02, depending which place you find the stats) last season. However, his FIP was a bit higher, closer to 4.00 for both seasons.
It's easy to see why Gomez has the higher FIP. According to FirstInning.com, he struck out 14.8% of batters he saw in 2010, up from 12.5% in 2009. He walked 9.8% in 2010, 10% in 2009. In other words, that control thing seems to be bringing him down.
What Gomez does well, at least lately, is battle left-handed batters. He held them to a .234 average, .302 on-base percentage and .350 slugging last season, Eddy reported.
In any case, it's a nice bit of lefty depth in the organization while we wait to see if Detroit can help him make any adjustments to improve his command.
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Nice. That's two International signings for the Tigers today.
Beriguete, 20 a Dominican pitcher also signed for $ 200K.
Who was the first Honduran baseball player?
If you survived 2003, you can get through this!
Chito Martinez and Gerald Young . . .
. . . according to this. Neither of whom I ever heard of (and of course, there are two of them).
British Honduras is now called Belize
so Gerald Young is the only Honduran to play in MLB
/geography nerd
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The Baseball Almanac shows two players born in Honduras that played in MLB
Gerald Young, and Chito Martinez.
If you survived 2003, you can get through this!
Oops.
I just repeated what rea wrote. Like Emily Litella says “never mind”.
If you survived 2003, you can get through this!
And it turns out . . .
(1) Baseball Almanac is great on baseball, but a little shaky on geography, not noting the difference between Honduras and Belize, f/k/a British Honduras.
(2) rea didn’t read the entry carefully enough.
No. Signed to a minor league deal.
Three reasons a player gets put on the 40 man roster.
1. He makes the 25 man roster and has to be added to play in MLB.
2. He is a very high first round draft pick and signs a major league contract. That is negotiated when he first signs, and is pretty rare. Verlander and Turner got those deals.
3. He puts in his four or five seasons in the minors, making him eligible for the Rule 5 draft, and the organization doesn’t want to lose him, even if he’s not quite yet major league ready.
Once in the organization, there is no reason to put a player on the 40 man roster unless and until one of those things happens, no matter how good the player is.
If you survived 2003, you can get through this!
Love this signing!!!
That guys was lights out for the Yanks for a looooong time. He’ll be a heck of a setup man!
Wait, did you say Mariano Gomez? Nevermind.
Granderson was my Tiger, then Sizemore, then Willis. Since they're all gone, I'm taking Raburn and hoping the pattern holds.
Mariano Rivera + Gomez Addams =
Mariano Gomez, love child. Someone get busy on Photoshop.
Granderson was my Tiger, then Sizemore, then Willis. Since they're all gone, I'm taking Raburn and hoping the pattern holds.
there are a number of lefties down stream
only two with major league experience on the roster if you take away Coke- Schlereth and Thomas. But Bale and Ni are NRI’s, and Charlie Furbush could be pressed into relief duty, which may actually benefit his career if there is an opening for him. He doesn’t figure to fare well with all the others in the pipeline in terms of starting pitchers. I have Charlie No.3 on the LOOGY depth chart, with probably Bale and Ni 4th and fifth.
If you survived 2003, you can get through this!
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