Dodgers sign Dellin Betances to minor league deal

The Los Angeles Dodgers have added further depth to their backup bullpen choices, signing reduction pitcher Dellin Betances to a minor league contract. 

First reported by The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal, Betances stands to make as much as $2.75 million ought to he make the large league roster.

As soon as some of the imposing right-handed arms within the bigs, Betances has scuffled since 2019 when he was sidelined with a sequence of accidents. In simply 17 appearances in that point, he is allowed 11 runs in 13.1 innings pitched with a 7.43 ERA. 

Now 34-years-old, the large righty stands 6’8″ and weighs 265 kilos. Previous to the string of accidents, Betances was named to 4 consecutive All-Star Recreation appearances from 2014 to 2017. 

In these 4 seasons with the Yankees, he made 283 appearances to the tune of a 2.11 ERA. He compiled 32 saves, 174 holds and 492 strikeouts in 306.2 innings pitched.

Regardless of lacking the vast majority of the final three years, Betances nonetheless incorporates a profession strikeout share of an incredible 39.2%, thanks largely to his high-velocity fastball and sharp breaking pitches.

Betances turns into certainly one of a variety of reduction pitchers signed by the Dodgers to minor league offers, because the membership continues to construct their roster up forward of Opening Day. 

Whereas he might not make the large league roster to start out, Betances, and the opposite minor league signees, look to offer the group with loads of choices within the case of accidents on the present 40-man. 

Initially drafted by the Yankees within the first spherical of the 2006 MLB Draft, Betances made his large league debut in 2011.

Together with Betances, the Dodgers have additionally signed Tyler Anderson, Jimmy Nelson and Danny Duffy to large league offers, acquired nearer Craig Kimbrel from the White Sox and inked Shane Greene, Mike Wright, Yency Almonte, Reyes Moronta, and Daniel Zamora to minor league contracts.