The Twins are bringing again left-handed reliever Danny Coulombe on a minor league deal, in keeping with Betsy Helfand of the St-Paul Pioneer Press. The deal comes with an invitation to large league spring coaching. It’s the fourth straight low season that Coulombe has inked a minor league cope with the Twins.
Initially drafted by the Dodgers within the twenty fifth spherical of the 2012 draft, Coulombe made his large league debut in 2014. His time in LA could be quick lived, as Coulombe would throw simply 12 2/3 innings of 6.23 ERA ball earlier than he was despatched to Oakland the next 12 months. Over the following few seasons, he’d set up himself as a daily within the A’s bullpen, pitching 130 2/3 innings of 4.06 ERA ball. The strikeout and stroll charges would fluctuate a good bit throughout this time, however Coulombe would typically strikeout batters at bit above the league-average charge, whereas giving up free passes a bit extra regularly than league-average.
Coulombe, 33, was launched by the A’s on the finish of the 2018 season, and wouldn’t seem within the large league once more till 2020. That 12 months was the primary of three (and now 4) successive minor league pacts with the Twins the place Coulombe would finally work his approach onto the large league roster. Over these three years in Minnesota, Coulombe has tossed 49 1/3 innings and labored to a 2.92 ERA. Superior metrics have appeared rather less favorably on his work, along with his FIP over that point sitting at 3.81.
This previous season began nicely sufficient for Coulombe, cracking the opening day roster. He labored to a 1.46 ERA throughout 12 1/3 innings of aid, earlier than hitting the IL with a left hip impingement in early Might. He was activated in direction of the top of the month, however a day after coming off the IL he wound up again there with the identical left hip impingement. Coulombe would bear surgical procedure to restore the labrum, ending his season.
Coulombe throws a low-90s fastball, and mixes in a slider and curveball, in addition to a changeup that he launched this previous season. Coulombe has been a quietly efficient southpaw for the Twins over the previous few seasons, and if he can present he’s absolutely recovered from surgical procedure in spring coaching, it definitely stands to cause that he may discover himself once more contributing to the key league crew in 2023.
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