The wait is over, and one of baseball’s top contenders can move on to spring training confident that his new addition to the pitching team will be the right man to put them on top.
It was a long off-season to wonder where the former Pac-12 star could end, with apparently all the teams at stake for his services. Now, however, it is resolved.
Ian Hamilton is a member of the Minnesota Twins.
Hamilton, an 11th round pick of the White Sox draft outside Washington State in 2016, had been claimed in exemptions by the Mariners in late September. Two and a half months later, Seattle dismissed the right-handed man, and he was claimed by the Phillies. So when Philadelphia rehired catcher JT Realmuto and needed to free up a 40-man squad, Hamilton was assigned to the assignment and has now again been claimed, this time by the champions of AL Central.
Hamilton is not just a promising pitcher who dominated hitters with an ERA of 1.74 and 62 strikeouts in 51.2 entries between Double-A and Triple-A in 2018, he is someone you I can’t help cheering for. After having a cup of coffee with the White Sox in 2018, Hamilton was ready to compete for a spot on the team the following year, but suffered a shoulder injury in a car accident. He returned to the field in 16 fighting-filled games for Sox’s affiliate in Charlotte, but was hit in the face by a line drive, suffering several fractures that ended his season.
Last year, Hamilton returned to the majors and worked 3.2 innings without goals in his first three appearances, with four eliminations. His fourth and final outing of the season went sour, as Hamilton stumbled over the first two Tigers he faced, got one, launched a wild shot and gave Harold Castro an RBI single before being pulled – he was charged with two runs in a third of an entrance, while Steve Cishek allowed one of the inherited corridors to return home.
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Now Hamilton is going to Minnesota to try to help contain his former Chicago teammates at Central, which is an intriguing race to see who can win the most in rebuilding Cleveland, Detroit and Kansas City.
Hamilton does not appear to have a Twitter account. Instead, he is just focused on baseball and doing everything possible to improve and help his team win.
In other baseball news, defending world champion Dodgers agreed to an agreement with Trevor Bauer, a human paraquat who had a season in his career over three wins over substitution, has a lifetime ERA of 3.90 and 3.85 FIP, and was incorrectly reported by Bob Nightengale from USA Today on the way to the Mets on Thursday night. Business is worth it $ 102 million over three years, which is just silly for a guy who might be – maybe – the third best LA title holder now. Bauer won the 2020 National League Cy Young by posting an ERA of 1.73 in 11 matches, but it’s his other type of post this is problematic, and his career resume suggests that while he is capable of flashes of brilliance like his less than a dozen starts in a pandemic year, he is really average.