Today the Chicago Cubs signed AAA pitcher Shane Lindsay, previously with the Dodgers’ AAA affiliate, and, in a corresponding move, have released pitcher Nate Robertson.
Lindsay, who turned 27 earlier this year, is mostly a career minor leaguer out of Australia (he saw a little bit of action with the White Sox last year. With the Dodgers’ AAA team this year, he was sporting a 5.00 ERA in relief (which isn’t terrible for Albuquerque), but an ugly 2.222 WHIP, in nine innings of work. He’s a righty who has always struck out a ton of guys (12.1 K/9 in the minors), but also walked a ton of guys (6.9 BB/9). He was a AAA All-Star last year, so there’s obviously some talent there. For now, he’s a AAA project.
Robertston, 34, had an 8.10 ERA in his 20 innings of work this year with the Iowa Cubs.
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Australians? AUSTRALIANS? This time Theo and Jed have gone too far.
THE DINGO ATE YOUR BABY!!!
Those handcuffs is high tensil steeel. It’ll take ya 10 minutes to hack through em. If ya’ll lucky you can cut through yar aunkle in foive.
While not exactly exciting, I would call that an incrimental improvement.
Robertson has been a disaster this season. I’m honestly surprised he stayed on the roster this long.
Ha, I forgot we even had Nate Robertson. No big loss I guess. Especially after seeing what his ERA was.
always take fliers on guys that throw hard….
Finally, somebody who can translate for Ryan Roland Smith.
Umm, this guy was a triple A all star last year and he’s only 27? How could you not give this kid a shot? Nice pick up whether it works out or not.
An Australian Carlos Marmol. Just what the Cubs need.
The Cubs would have been much better off getting one of those guys off the scrap heap who strike out a ton of guys but don’t walk anyone. Those guys are a dime a dozen.
Not sure if serious.
Tongue firmly planted in cheek…
Someone in the Cubs org must have seen a “fixable” project that has upside. Hard to tell why……but here’s hoping.
Can anyone give me an example of someone like this “turning it around” and being a success?
Ryan Dempster
Joe Borowski? I don’t know if he had control problems. But he didn’t make it til his late 20s IIRC.
Al Albequerque with the Tigers in 2011 (although he seems to be injured/not playing this year).
Go the aussies. I always wondered what happened to him after seeing his name in the baseball media quite a bit over here when he was younger. Good luck to him.
Wasn’t Borowski pitching in Mexico when the Cub’s signed him? That’s pretty rough.
Good signing for the Iowa Cubs, dunno if he’ll help out the big league team. Hopefully they’re scouring the independent/frontier league rosters for possible organization arms the bullpen needs some serious help
Give the guy a shot, what have you got to loose.