Jair Jurrjens come on down. You’re the next contestant in the Baltimore Orioles starting rotation.
Jurrjens will replace the injured Wei-Yin Chen and make his O’s debut on Saturday according to Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports. He’ll become the Orioles’ tenth starter this season after pitching to a 3.14 ERA in eight starts with the Triple-A Norfolk Tides.
The 2011 All-Star was a free agent target I hoped the Orioles would take a look at this offseason. Dan Duquette signed him to a one-year, $1.5 million deal on January 24, but after reviewing medical information on his oft-injured right knee, the two sides agreed to a minor league deal with an opt-out set for June 15.
As MASNSports.com’s Roch Kubatko points out, the Orioles can transfer Brian Roberts to the 60-day disabled list to make room for Jurrjens on Saturday. The replaced Wei-Yin Chen’s spot with relief pitcher Alex Burnett.
Its about time. The O’s need some stabilty in the line up.
DD has been playing musical chairs with the starters.
He will be a great addition.
Not so sure about this. I hope it works out but I think this guy is at the end of his rope, same for Garcia. Hopefully we can squeeze every bit of talent out of these guys before they go bye-bye.
I agree that Freddy G. might be at the end of his string but come on Jair is two year’s removed from being an all star and twenty eight. Everyone deserves a second chance. I think that he has plenty left in his tank and if he can put the injury behind him, the Orioles might have struck gold with Jair.
Thought I read somewhere that Jair’s velocity had fallen off. Anyone else read that?
I remember that article , I believe it was in the Bleacher report back in february,,,,,,,,,,,,,,I think it stated his fast ball was around 88 mph and it used to be in the low 90s……………thats all I can remember , the old brain ain’t what it used to be…………….