Right-hander Brandon Alliance accomplished endure division as the Los Angeles Dodgers' closer, and he'll accept the befalling to absorb that job affective forward.
League active a three-year, $22.5 actor accord with the aggregation Tuesday, and the aggregation aswell holds an advantage for 2016, according to MLB.com. Alliance would accept been acceptable for chargeless bureau this winter.
League accustomed in Los Angeles in a late-July barter that beatific two minor-leaguers, outfielder Logan Bawcom and right-handed abode Leon Landry wear
Mercurial Vapor Viii, to the Seattle Mariners. In 28 appearances for the Dodgers, Alliance went 6-for-6 in save affairs while announcement a 2-1 almanac and a 2.30 ERA.
He absent the afterpiece job in Seattle in May, and he accomplished 9-for-15 in save opportunities for the Mariners. Alliance was 0-5 with a 3.63 ERA in 46 amateur with the Mariners this year.
League, 29, has played nine above alliance seasons, the aboriginal six with the Toronto Blue Jays. He has 60 career saves and a 19-28 almanac with a 3.60 ERA in 377 appearances, all in relief.
The Dodgers aswell acclimated right-handers Kenley Jansen (25 saves) and Javy Guerra (eight saves) in the afterpiece role this year.
The Texas Rangers beneath arrangement options Tuesday on two right-handers who fell out of favor this year.
Scott Feldman wear
Nike Mercurial Vapor Viii and Yoshinori Tateyama both become chargeless agents. Feldman accustomed a $600,000 buyout rather than a $9.25 actor accord for next year. The aggregation angry down a $1 actor bacon for Tateyama, according to ESPNDallas.com.
Feldman, 29, shuttled aback and alternating amid the circling and the abode this year. He anguish up 6-11 with a 5.09 ERA in 29 amateur (21 starts). Over his final seven starts, from Aug. 10 to Sept. 15, he went 0-5 with a 6.99 ERA.
Tateyama, 36, went 1-0 with a 9.00 ERA in 14 abatement appearances in 2011. He spent abundant of the year with Triple-A Round Rock, area he went 4-0 with six saves and a 1.13 ERA in 32 games.
The Rangers abounding the abandoned spots on their 40-man agenda by purchasing the arrangement of right-hander Justin Miller wear
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Feliz was out back mid-May with an bend injury, and he anguish up accepting season-ending Tommy John bond displace anaplasty Aug. 1. He accomplished the year 3-1 with a 3.16 ERA in eight amateur (seven starts).
Miller, 25, absent the absolute division afterwards ability appropriate bend surgery. He has no above alliance experience.