With the advent of spring training just days away, the Yanks added one more arm to their bullpen this weekend. Righty reliever Darrell Rasner was picked up off waivers from the Nationals, and the Yanks booted Jason Anderson back down the minors to make room on the roster for their new acquisition. Twenty-five year old Rasner spent most of last season playing AA ball, but maintained a 3.68 ERA after being called up to play with the Nat’s in September. Labels: roster moves |
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Rasner is a promising young talent. Last year at AA he had a better than 3:1 K/BB ratio (96 vs. 29). However, he did the thing that many strike-out savvy pitcher do way too much: give up the longball (10 homers in 150 IP).
His MLB sample of 7.1 IP is just too small to draw any useful conclusions. However, all the (very small) numbers were good ones: 4K to 2BB, no homers, and two less hits than IP.
Good acquisition, and hopefully Mr. Rasner will help lend some depth and stability to our already-improved bullpen situation.