The Rockies have signed Chasen Shreve to a minor league contract, as per the left-hander’s MLB.com profile web page. Shreve was launched from his earlier minors cope with the Yankees simply final Thursday, and he has now shortly landed with the ninth completely different huge league group of his 15-year professional profession.
Shreve has seen motion with seven of these groups on the Main League degree, with 174 2/3 of his 356 profession huge league innings coming in two earlier stints with the Yankees. Minors offers with the Rangers and Yankees in 2024 didn’t result in any time within the majors for the 34-year-old, so Shreve will look to crack the Rockies’ roster and formally seem in a sport to lock in what can be an eleventh MLB marketing campaign.
For such a journeyman’s resume, Shreve has some stable ends in the type of a profession 3.97 ERA, 25.3% strikeout charge, and 10.8% stroll charge. His most up-to-date two seasons have been fairly shaky, nevertheless, as Shreve had a 6.49 ERA in 26 1/3 frames with the Mets in 2022 after which a 4.63 ERA in 44 2/3 mixed innings with the Tigers and Reds final 12 months. A mixed 3.64 SIERA over the 2022-23 seasons maybe paints a greater view of Shreve’s efficiency, as an uncharacteristically excessive homer charge in 2022 significantly harm his numbers.
Shreve has regarded sharp in his time at Triple-A this 12 months, posting a 1.89 ERA in 33 1/3 complete innings for the Rangers’ and Yankees’ prime associates. His capability to pitch that nicely within the Pacific Coast League (with Triple-A Sugar Land) offers some hope that he can stick with it in one other hitter-friendly setting in Albuquerque. It may not be lengthy earlier than Shreve is again within the majors, because the Rockies’ woeful bullpen wants all the assistance it might get, and the membership doesn’t have a single left-hander in its reduction corps.