The Rays introduced final week they’ve re-signed reliever Chris Muller to a minor league contract. In accordance with the transactions log at MLB.com, he was assigned to the crew’s Florida complicated.
Muller is again with the one group for which he’s ever performed. The Rays took him within the seventeenth spherical of the 2017 draft. He spent six years within the minor league system and earned his preliminary MLB name final month. Sadly, the membership didn’t get him right into a recreation earlier than designating him for task a pair weeks later.
Tampa Bay launched Muller after his DFA. Whereas it’d appear counterintuitive to launch a participant simply to re-sign him inside just a few weeks, Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Instances defined the choice earlier this month. In accordance with Topkin, Muller had suffered an elbow damage earlier than his DFA. MLB guidelines prohibit groups from inserting an injured participant on outright waivers. As soon as the Rays took Muller off the 40-man roster, they needed to both commerce him or launch him.
That proves largely immaterial, for the reason that 27-year-old agreed to return to the group after hitting free company. He’ll go to the complicated to construct again into recreation form and presumably will head again to Triple-A Durham in some unspecified time in the future. Muller had tossed 20 innings for the Bulls earlier this yr, posting a 4.95 ERA with a strong 24.2% strikeout price however a lofty 12.2% stroll share.
