Twins Sign Wil Ledezma

[Seth Stohs]

Mike Berardino (tweet) was perusing the International League transactions page when he said that the Twins had signed lefty Wil Ledezma. The 33 year old left-hander spent time in the big leagues from 2003-2011 with the Tigers, Braves, Padres, Diamondbacks, Nationals, Pirates and Blue Jays. 

 

He pitched in Mexico last year. 

[nicksaviking]

Hasn't pitched in the MLB since 2011, I wouldn't have guessed that.  I'd think that he is an extremely long shot to make the opening day 25-man.  Odds are against him ever getting called up.  Logan Darnell has pitched just as many MLB innings as he has this decade.

 

He always had a live arm though. 

Edited December 22, 2014 by nicksaviking

[Kirby_waved_at_me]

His K/9 was pretty good in Japan (2012-2013) and Mexico (2014) and Venezuela this winter. Can't hurt to give him a chance. If he's no good, it won't take long to figure that out.

[jokin]

Twins Caribbean staff searched far and wide for an available LHRP (who just happened to be playing on the same winter ball team as Pinto and Escobar).

[Mike Sixel]

Shouldn't this be in the minor league area (I hope)?

[Otto von Ballpark]

His K/9 was pretty good in Japan (2012-2013) and Mexico (2014) and Venezuela this winter. Can't hurt to give him a chance. If he's no good, it won't take long to figure that out.

Ledezma's Japan K/9 was below league average.  He did best that in Mexico and in Venezuela so far, which surprised me -- I thought they might be higher-K leagues, but not really.

 

Off topic, but interesting from the Venezuelan stats that Eduardo Escobar is still basically repeating his stats there from last winter -- low-ish average and OBP but decent power.