{"id":85011,"date":"2024-09-05T20:05:51","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T00:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=85011"},"modified":"2024-09-05T20:05:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T00:05:51","slug":"pirates-designate-pitcher-domingo-german","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/09\/05\/pirates-designate-pitcher-domingo-german\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Pirates to Designate Veteran Pitcher for Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates will designate veteran pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/germado01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-09-05_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Domingo Germ\u00e1n<\/a> for assignment, per a report by FanSided\u2019s Robert Murray. The move was necessary to make room for <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/09\/03\/pirates-claim-joey-wentz-tigers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">recent waiver claim<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wentzjo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-09-05_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joey Wentz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sources: The Pittsburgh Pirates are designating Domingo German for assignment.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Robert Murray (@ByRobertMurray) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByRobertMurray\/status\/1831817811632779371?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Wentz, 26, arrived in Pittsburgh on Thursday evening. He may seem like a rather innocuous addition, but the Pirates want to get a look at him. Thus, Germ\u00e1n became a casualty.<\/p>\n<h2>Pirates to Designate Veteran Pitcher Domingo Germ\u00e1n for Assignment<\/h2>\n<p>The Pirates added Germ\u00e1n, 32, on a minor league deal in the offseason. He was selected to the major league roster on August 9. In seven games with the Pirates, which included two spot starts, Germ\u00e1n was 0-1 with a gaudy 7.84 ERA and 1.839 WHIP. He showed some promise at first. After four games, which included six innings of three-hit shutout ball against the Texas Rangers, he had an ERA of 1.50. However, then things unraveled. He gave up 16 earned runs in his last three outings, which covered 11 innings.<\/p>\n<p>When the right-handed <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/08\/09\/pirates-select-domingo-german\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Germ\u00e1n\u2019s contract was selected<\/a>, it was a surprise. He hadn\u2019t performed well in the minors and didn\u2019t seem to fill a pressing need. Across two minor league levels, he had a 5.12 ERA and 1.431 WHIP. He walked 34 of 320 batters faced, for an unacceptable 10.6 percent walk rate. However, it was learned that August 9 was his opt-out date. The Pirates, who were in the National League Wild Card race at the time, may not have feared losing the pitcher as much as they feared Germ\u00e1n finding success with one of the other contenders.<\/p>\n<p>However, with the need to open up a roster spot, Germ\u00e1n was the logical candidate to go. He was used infrequently and didn\u2019t seem to have a role with the team.<\/p>\n<h3>The Last Word<\/h3>\n<p>Germ\u00e1n will probably get an opportunity with another team, although it may not come this year. The Pirates will place Germ\u00e1n on waivers, but there doesn\u2019t seem to be much chance of the pitcher getting claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Germ\u00e1n leaves the Pirates with a career record of 31-29 and a 4.54 ERA. He has a track record as a serviceable back-of-the-rotation starting pitcher. Of course, Germ\u00e1n will always be best known for tossing a perfect game against the Oakland Athletics on June 28, 2023. Perhaps more importantly, with a checkered past that scared away many suitors, he at least proved that he could get through an entire baseball season without incident. That will be no small consideration for other teams.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a betting man (or woman), here are two things: First, there should be another deal out there for Germ\u00e1n next year, although it&#8217;s sure to be another minor league deal with an invitation to major league spring training. Second, every time you want to place a bet, put the money in a mutual fund instead. You\u2019ll thank me in 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Jerome Miron-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates will designate veteran pitcher Domingo Germ\u00e1n for assignment, per a report by FanSided\u2019s Robert Murray. The move was necessary to make room for recent waiver claim Joey Wentz. Sources: The Pittsburgh Pirates are designating Domingo German for assignment. \u2014 Robert Murray (@ByRobertMurray) September 5, 2024 Wentz, 26, arrived in Pittsburgh on Thursday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5010,"featured_media":85021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,1071,35],"tags":[2491,1306],"class_list":["post-85011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pirates","category-mlb","category-news","tag-domingo-german","tag-joey-wentz"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5010"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}