TODAY: The Korea Baseball Organization\u2019s SSG Landers announced that Hatch has signed a one-year deal worth $590K.<\/p>\n
JUNE 5: The Diamondbacks have released right-hander Thomas Hatch<\/a>, according to his transactions tracker<\/a> at MLB.com. It\u2019s possible he had an opt-out in his deal, as the start of June is a common time for such contract provisions.<\/p>\n Hatch, 31, signed a minor league deal with the Snakes in the offseason. He has been with the Triple-A Reno Aces and performing decently, considering that club plays in the hitter-friendly Pacific Coast League. In 11 starts, he has logged 51 2\/3 innings, allowing 4.01 earned runs per nine. Only three qualified pitchers in the PCL have a better ERA than that right now.<\/p>\n His 16% strikeout rate isn\u2019t terribly strong but he has been filling up the strike zone, only giving out walks to just 4.7% of batters faced. He has induced grounders on 46% of balls in play. His four-seamer and sinker are averaging around 93 miles per hour as he also mixes in a cutter, slider and changeup. In his big league career, he has thrown 103 innings over five different seasons with a 5.24 ERA.<\/p>\n The Snakes aren\u2019t exactly overflowing with rotation depth at the moment. They have Merrill Kelly<\/a>, Eduardo Rodr\u00edguez<\/a>, Ryne Nelson<\/a>, Zac Gallen<\/a> and Michael Soroka<\/a> in the big league rotation. Corbin Burnes<\/a> was working his way back from Tommy John surgery but recently suffered a setback and probably won\u2019t be able to rejoin the team until September. Cristian Mena<\/a> underwent shoulder surgery this month. Mitch Bratt<\/a> and Dylan Ray<\/a> are on the 40-man roster but both recently landed on the minor league injured list. Kohl Drake<\/a> is also on the 40-man but has a 7.80 ERA in Triple-A this year. Brandon Pfaadt<\/a> had been in a bullpen role in the majors but just got optioned to get stretched out. He has an ERA near 6.00 this year, so it\u2019s unclear what the Snakes can expect from him going forward.<\/p>\n Put that all together and it suggests Hatch probably opted out of his deal, since the Snakes probably wouldn\u2019t have given up the depth for no reason, though they don\u2019t really have a spot in the big league rotation. Perhaps they will look to re-sign Hatch to a new minor league deal, one with fresh opt-outs, to preserve that depth. But Hatch will have a chance to survey the market to see if there are other opportunities out there. Teams like the Twins, Royals and Blue Jays, who have employed Hatch before, have big injury concerns in their starting pitching ranks and could be interested in a reunion.<\/p>\n Photo courtesy of Allan Henry, Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TODAY: The Korea Baseball Organization\u2019s SSG Landers announced that Hatch has signed a one-year deal worth $590K. JUNE…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,20316],"class_list":["post-719024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-thomas-hatch"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116704424995823643","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719024","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=719024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}