Toronto Blue Jays sign former Philadelphia Phillies left-handed reliever

According to Toronto's official transactions log, the Blue Jays have signed left-hander Michael Plassmeyer to a minor league deal.

He has been assigned to Triple-A Buffalo for now but will presumably be invited to big league camp in spring training.

Plassmeyer, 29, has a very small major league résumé. He made two appearances for the Phillies in 2022 and one more the following year.

In total, he has 11 innings in the show. Unfortunately, he allowed 12 earned runs in that time, so he currently sports an unsightly 9.82 ERA.

That's obviously a tiny sample of work and the Jays are presumably looking past that to the larger sample size of his minor league history.

Over the past five years, he has appeared in 125 minor league games, including 89 starts.

Plassmeyer spent last season at AAA with TEX, posting a 4.43 ERA, 5.35 FIP & 14.4% K-BB% in 28 games (16 starts). He has 1 MiLB option remaining.

In 489 1/3 innings, he struck out 24.7% of batters faced while only giving out walks 7% of the time, both of those figures being slightly better than average.

However, a tendency to give up home runs push his ERA to 4.97 in that span.

If Plassmeyer is added to the 40-man at any point, he still has an option, meaning he could be sent between Buffalo and Toronto as needed.

He also has just five days of big league service time, meaning he's affordable and still years away from qualifying from free agency.