Proper-hander Casey Lawrence may not be a free agent for lengthy. The 37-year-old elected free company after the Blue Jays designated him for project on Wednesday. Nevertheless, Ben Nicholson-Smith of Sportsnet experiences that the Blue Jays are “engaged” with Lawrence a couple of potential reunion. Nicholson-Smith provides that the veteran swing-man can also be “believed to be” drawing curiosity from different golf equipment.
Lawrence has been a preferred recurring character on MLBTR’s entrance web page over the previous month. He opened the season within the Mariners group, pitching 10 innings over three separate stints with the large league membership. The primary two occasions the Mariners DFA’d him, he handed by waivers and elected free company, solely to signal new minor league contracts with the staff shortly thereafter. The third time, nevertheless, the Blue Jays swept in and claimed him off waivers. He would seem in a single sport for the Jays, giving up three runs on six hits in 2 1/3 innings, earlier than they, too, minimize ties.
Throughout components of 5 MLB seasons, Lawrence has thrown a complete of 136 2/3 innings with a 6.59 ERA and a 4.60 SIERA. He has not pitched greater than 15 large league video games or 30 large league innings in a season since his rookie marketing campaign eight years in the past. Whereas he has continued to work as a starter within the minors, he has not began an MLB contest since April 2017.
Lawrence’s 4.97 ERA in 2025 may in some way be overselling his efficiency to date, contemplating seven of the 14 runs he has given up have been unearned. What’s extra, he has struck out simply 5 of the 60 batters he has confronted. The 87.6-mph common velocity on his sinker makes it one of many slowest (and most hittable) major fastballs within the sport. Nonetheless, he’s a low-cost choice who’s ramped up and able to throw main league innings for any staff which may want them. Evidently, that has been sufficient for him to attract repeated curiosity from Seattle and Toronto, and probably another groups as properly.
