The Mets have dealt left-hander Tyler Jay to the Brewers in change for minor league right-hander TJ Shook, per a membership announcement. Jay had been designated for task by New York final week to make room for lefty Alex Younger on the membership’s 40-man roster.
Jay, 30, was the sixth general decide within the 2015 draft by the Twins. Jay struggled to determine himself within the higher ranges of the minors, nonetheless, and he departed affiliated ball following the canceled 2020 minor league season to pitch the 2022 marketing campaign for the Frontier League’s Joliet Slammers. He pitched effectively in Indy Ball with a 3.53 ERA with 88 strikeouts in 79 innings of labor between the 2022 and ’23 seasons. The lefty returned to affiliated ball on a minor league cope with the Mets partway by final 12 months and after struggling in his Triple-A debut final 12 months, seemed stable in 41 1/3 innings of labor as a multi-inning reliever on the degree this 12 months with a 2.40 ERA regardless of a comparatively lackluster 18.6% strikeout charge.
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