Rays will trade a left-handed pitcher to the Asian ball

The Rays of Tampa Bay are in the process of finalizing a deal to send the southpaw novato Dietrich Enns to a team either in the Nippon Professional Baseball of Japan, the Korea Baseball Organization or the Chinese Professional Baseball League of Taiwan. Enns was placed on release waivers today Wednesday and, once cleared on Friday, will be able to sign with his new club.

Moves like this generally benefit all parties and are of course done with the full consent of the player in question. The team with an interest in Enns would first contact the Rays, who would then assess the player’s interest in the opportunity before proceeding to negotiate a release agreement:

Tampa Bay is likely to receive some financial compensation for releasing Enns, while the pitcher himself will receive a higher salary in the NPB or KBO than he would have earned as a major league player in 2022, had he stayed with the Rays. in the roster of 40 men.

The 30-year-old Enns was quite effective in 22 1/3 innings for the Rays last season, pitching to a 2.82 ERA with an impressive 28.4% strikeout rate versus a strong 6.8% walk rate.

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However, that marked the first major league action for Enns since a brief four-inning cup of coffee with the Minnesota Twins in 2017, and the left-hander’s minor league record overall isn’t as strong as the season’s results. pass. Enns had a 2.64 ERA in 71 2/3 Triple-A frames, but he has a 4.26 ERA in his career with strikeouts and walk rates in nearly 400 innings at that level.

Rafael Martinez

I am fond of the King of Sports, especially the Boston Red Sox in MLB and in general all of Mexican baseball. This profession has given me the opportunity to cover major events such as the Caribbean Series, LMB All Star, LMP (uninterrupted since 2009), signings of important players. I had the chance to attend the 2013 World Classic in Arizona, USA, albeit as a fan. Apart from this beautiful sport, I love basketball, where I have also narrated games and even an NBA friendly 10 years ago, but I carry baseball in my veins. Bachelor of Communication Sciences from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS) , from which I graduated in 2011. I was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa and started in the world of sports journalism in 2004 in the newspaper El Sol de Mazatlán, where I was a baseball columnist and reporter at the same time. In January 2009 I came to El Debate as a journalist reporter and it was almost six years (in the first stage), until in November 2014 I emigrated to the radio providing my services in Línea Directa-Grupo RSN. My cycle there ended in July 2019 and within days, El Debate gave me another opportunity to work and opened the doors for me again. That is how I came to Al Bat, where I have been since 2019 as a web journalist.

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