Blue Jays sign Drew Hutchison, Paul Fry and Rob Brantly

AdminJanuary 7, 2023

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The Toronto Blue Jays announced three minor league deals Friday, in addition to previously reported deals for right-handers Julian Fernandez and Casey Lawrence. The other three are the right-hander Drew Hutchison, left-hander Paul Fry and catcher Rob Brantly. All five will receive invites to Major League Baseball spring training.

The 32-year-old, 6-foot-1 Hutchison returns to the organization that drafted him in 2009. He worked his way up to the Majors in 2012 and had some success with the Blue Jays, including a 2014 season in which he made 32 ERA starts. from 4.48:

The 30-year-old, 6-foot-10 Fry seemed to have great success in 2020. He made 22 appearances for the Orioles that year with a 2.45 ERA, 29.6% strikeout rate and 57.6% ground ball rate. His 9.2% walk rate was a bit high, but it was a few points better than the 11.4% rate he posted the year before.

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Brantly, 33 and the same height as Fry, is a journeyman catcher who has spent time in the majors with the Marlins, White Sox, Phillies, Giants and Yankees. Although he has played in parts of eight MLB seasons, he only appeared in 135 GL games and made just 456 plate appearances.

Raphael Martinez

I am a fan of the King of Sports, especially the Boston Red Sox in MLB and in general all of Mexican baseball. This profession has given me the opportunity to cover big events such as the Caribbean Series, LMB All Star, LMP (uninterrupted since 2009), important players’ signatures. I had the chance to attend the 2013 World Classic in Arizona, USA, albeit as an amateur. Apart from this beautiful sport, I love basketball, where I have also narrated games and even an NBA friendly 10 years ago, but baseball is in my veins. Graduated in Communication Sciences from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS). , from which I graduated in 2011. I was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa and started in the world of sports journalism in 2004 in the newspaper El Sol de Mazatlán, where I was a baseball columnist and reporter at the same time. In January 2009 I arrived at El Debate as a journalist reporter and it took almost six years (in the first stage), until in November 2014 I emigrated to radio, providing my services at Línea Directa-Grupo RSN. My cycle there ended in July 2019 and a few days later, El Debate gave me another opportunity to work and opened the doors for me again. That is how I came to Al Bat, where I have been since 2019 as a web journalist.

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