Terre Haute South High School alum Tim Herrin has rejoined the Cleveland Guardians’ pitching staff two weeks after being optioned to the their Triple-A farm club in Columbus, Ohio.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Cleveland.com website reported Monday night that Herrin was being recalled from the Columbus Clippers.
He is to replace Guardians closer Emmanuel Clase on the big-league club’s 26-man roster.
Herrin, 28, had a 4-2 win-loss record and a 3.99 earned-run average, with 28 strikeouts in 291/3 innings through 37 appearances, before the team sent him to Triple-A Columbus. The lefthander allowed three homers and yielded 22 walks with Cleveland.
The Guardians placed Clase on paid leave Monday while Major League Baseball conducts an investigation into possible sports-gambling activity, the league revealed Monday.
Guardians manager Stephen Vogt told the Plain Dealer that reports on Herrin from Columbus indicated that the Hoosier hurler was throwing a lot of strikes when he was recalled.
“He’s been filling up the strike zone, which is exactly what we talked about when he went to Columbus,” Vogt told the newspaper. “It was just about getting back in the strike zone.”
Herrin made his major-league debut with the Guardians in 2023. After playing at Indiana University, Herrin was picked by Cleveland in the 29th round of the 2018 MLB draft.
Through three major-league seasons, he’s compiled a cumulative record of 10-4 with a 3.21 ERA, 128 strikeouts and 61 walks in 136 appearances — all in relief.