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MLBTR: The Yankees announced Monday that they’ve signed veteran infielder Brad Miller to a minor league contract. The ISE Baseball client was recently designated for assignment by the Indians and elected free agency rather than accept an outright assignment to the minor leagues. The 29-year-old Miller hit .250/.325/.417 with a homer and three doubles in his short time with the Indians but lost out on his roster spot when Cleveland activated Jason Kipnis from the injured list. Miller isn’t a strong defender but has experience all over the infield as well as in the outfield corners, making him an interesting depth pickup for an injury-decimated Yankees club. The lefty-swinging utilityman is a career .240/.313/.409 hitter in 2545 plate appearances, including a .243/.322/.433 line against right-handed pitching. At present, the Yankees have Greg Bird, Troy Tulowitzki, Miguel Andujar and Didi Gregorius all on the injured list, which has forced the club to carry a hodgepodge of largely unproven replacements. Mike Ford, Gio Urshela and Tyler Wade are all logging at-bats around the infield right now (in addition to DJ LeMahieu and Gleyber Torres), and things in the outfield aren’t necessarily any better; Aaron Judge, Aaron Hicks and Giancarlo Stanton are all on the IL for the Yankees, leaving Clint Frazier, Brett Gardner and Mike Tauchman in the starting lineup. To their credit, however, both Frazier and the relatively unknown Tauchman have performed quite well. Comments section: Stratocaster Stand by for ridiculous outrage over a minor league depth signing. BrewersMVP08 Depth signing? he’ll be hitting cleanup tonight

MLBTR: The Blue Jays announced that right-hander Javy Guerra cleared waivers and has been assigned outright to Triple-A Buffalo. He’d have had the option to reject the assignment in favor of free agency, but it seems he’ll instead remain in the organization and bide his time in the minors while he awaits another crack at the MLB level. The 33-year-old veteran pitched in nine games for Toronto before being designated for assignment last week, posting a 5.40 ERA with a 12-to-4 K/BB ratio in a total of 10 innings.

I'd love to see Oakland pick up Keuchel and give the Astros a solid run

Good point Or he can go back to Houston any time of course but that bridge may have been burned

If he waits until after rhe June draft to sign then he no longer causes loss of a draft pick

Eovaldi needs surgery on his elbow

And teachers

Gibby

Goddammit What a f'n shame

13 home runs already Torrid pace Only one shy of the before-May 1 HR record set by Pujols and ARod. With 9 games left in April.

Boston playing 3 games at rhe Trop this weekend Would love to see Tampa bury them

Chapman could easily be on his way to another nice 6-8 WAR season for $580,000

Matt Chapman next??? I'm sure Beane will try...

Wouldn't Davis have been able to do wayyy better than that this off season? Draft pick compensation isn't nearly what it used to be. I suppose he's 31. At that point teams don't seem willing to give 5 year deals anymore.

the Oakland Athletics announced they have signed slugger Khris Davis to a two-year contract extension covering the 2020 and 2021 seasons. The two-year deal is worth $33.5 million, according to Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle

One team in the AL East with a record above 500 so far

He is the one

Good thing flags fly forever cause that trade might hurt for the next 5 years

8 HR off the Cardinals alone

Yasiel Puig's first game back in LA and he hits a HR off Kershaw first at bat

Chris Davis now 0 for 33 this season, worth - 0.8 WAR and 0 for his last 53 plate appearances going back to last season. Nuts.

Rex Sox starting staff 9.60 ERA so far

Also would be awful to see Vlad playing for nothing but indivual awards tha way Delgado and Halladay did

Agree on all counts Though I hope when the time is right they'll spend some money. They can afford that here more so than in Cleveland. The risk is having too many uncompetitive years and losing fan interest. It's happening right now. The fans come back when the team is winning but its not immediate and too many years like this one and the team is easily forgotten by many fans.