Catching Up on Transactions
If you’ve recovered from the excitement of the Nats hiring another 30-something to join the front office, we bring you an increasingly less common staple of the offseason: News of the recent minor-league free agents signing with Washington (assignments if available):
- RHP Tyler Baum (Rochester)
- RHP Johan Otanez (Rochester)
- OF Leandro Pineda (Rochester)
- RHP Eddy Yean (Rochester
- RHP Amin Ramirez (DSL)
Longtime (old-time?) readers may recognize Eddy Yean as “the other guy” along with then-prospect Wil Crowe in a 2020 trade for 1B/DH Josh Bell. Remembering that gets you a coffee (along with $2, natch).
The rest of the signings at the AAA level are the usual restocking for this year’s departures. For those wondering about Amin Ramirez, this appears to be the usual signing of an “old” IFA, one which the MLB interns appear to have made a typo while entering him into the system.
We now remind you that today is the day answer the phone like Buddy the Elf
Well Horowitz recalls him from
Pittsburg
I have a memory of that night the trade went with Pitt . Heavy heavy snow in Milwaukee .
Israel Pineda a relation to Leandro ?
Luke I’m a Hunts guy lol
In my travels today I met a young lad who pitches at a certain small Florida school but he is friends with a pitcher at TCU who the Nats apparently are talking with
Hunter Possehl
Hunter is a lefty
Florida Gulf Coast in “ the Myers “
Is there still a position for a pitching mentor in charge of rehabilitation of pitchers ?
The crazy thing about Yean is that they traded him five years ago but he’s still only 24 years old! He had weird numbers at AAA in 2025: 3.06 ERA (good!) but 4.97 FIP, 5.23 xFIP, 1.60 WHIP (yikes!). He walks too many guys and doesn’t K enough of them. But his age offers at least a little hope that he might be “fixable.”
When you look at his stats, like those of other contemporaries, it’s hard not to wonder what was lost in terms of both pitching and physical development because of the COVID year.
Matthews should work on Yean like many youngsters instilling new mindsets and mechanics
Tweaks
add Warming Bernabel to the list, primarily a 3B in the COL system but had some time at 1B as well. contact-based approach with little HRs to show. still only 23 and found his way into 146 games for the Rox last year.