The Seattle Mariners announced Tuesday that they have claimed RHP Domingo Gonz\u00e1lez off waivers from the Atlanta Braves. Seattle had an empty space on their 40-man roster, and Gonz\u00e1lez began this year with all three minor league options remaining, so Seattle can afford to stash the righty in Triple-A Tacoma as they announced they will be doing. Gonz\u00e1lez had been on waivers following Atlanta\u2019s claiming of RHP Connor Seabold.<\/p>\n
Gonz\u00e1lez is a 25 year old righty from San Francisco de Macoris in the Dominican Republic. Originally signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates ahead of the 2018 season, the 6\u20190 righty crept up the minor league ladder with an impressive penchant for bat-missing but a difficulty establishing himself as a starter or reliever. Undersized for a workhorse, Gonz\u00e1lez worked a tweener role up through Pittsburgh\u2019s system, while growing increasingly tied to multi-inning relief. Selected in the Minor League Rule-5 Draft to join Atlanta\u2019s organization after the 2022 season, Gonz\u00e1lez has been functionally all reliever. Protected from the Major League Rule-5 draft this winter by Atlanta as they added him to the 40-man, he\u2019s nonetheless yet to appear in a game at the big league level.<\/p>\n
In the past three seasons between Double-A Mississippi and Triple-A Gwinnett, he\u2019s mustered a 3.76\/3.42 ERA\/FIP in 148.1 IP across 120 appearances, with an impressive 30.7 K% and somewhat dodgier 11.8% walk rate. Gonz\u00e1lez gets to this production with a low arm slot delivery that allows his low-to-mid-90s fastball play up at the top of the zone, and a tight-breaking slider that can disappear under bats easily.<\/p>\n
I expect the slider usage to tick up, and perhaps add a sweeper in Seattle\u2019s organization. There is an element, the more I watch Gonz\u00e1lez, of a Matt Brash-like delivery, however the top-end velocity is lacking. Still, this is a nice pickup to backfill after the M\u2019s dealt heavily from their bullpen depth this trade deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Mariners announced Tuesday that they have claimed RHP Domingo Gonz\u00e1lez off waivers from the Atlanta Braves.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4166,5,192,4,40235],"class_list":{"0":"post-243379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-atlantabraves","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-braves","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-seattle-mariners-transactions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115017386947435422","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}