Courtesy of RedWingsBaseball.com
ROCHESTER, NY – The Minnesota Twins have re-signed left-handed pitcher Nick Greenwood and signed right-handed pitcher Jim Miller and left-handed pitcher Matt Tracy to minor league contracts.
Greenwood was 6-3 with one save and a 2.84 ERA in 16 games, 11 starts, with Rochester in 2016. He allowed 76 hits, 26 runs, 25 earned runs, five home runs and 11 walks while striking out 41 batters and inducing 18 double plays over 79.1 innings with the Red Wings. Greenwood pitched at least 7.0 innings over his final seven starts of the season and allowed two runs or fewer in each of his final six games. He opened the season with the New Britain Bees of the Independent Atlantic League and did not allow a run in three starts over 19.0 innings before signing with the Twins on May 5. Greenwood was assigned to Double-A Chattanooga and went 3-1 with a 4.09 ERA in five starts for the Lookouts before he was transferred to Rochester on June 5.
Miller is a veteran of 13 professional seasons, having spent time in the Baltimore, Colorado, Milwaukee, New York-AL, Oakland and Tampa Bay organizations. He opened 2016 with Triple-A Colorado Springs and was 1-0 with a 7.41 ERA in 11 games before being released on May 17. Miller was signed by Somerset of the Independent Atlantic League on July 21 and surrendered just eight hits, two walks and two unearned runs with 24 strikeouts over 25.0 innings in 26 relief outings with the Patriots. He has appeared in 281 career International League games with Durham, Norfolk and Scranton/Wilkes-Barre while earning league mid-season All-Star honors with the Tides in 2009. Miller has pitched in 50 Major League games with the Orioles, Rockies, Athletics and Yankees, most recently with New York in 2014.
Tracy spent last season between three teams and two organizations while going 6-6 with a 4.61 ERA in 26 games, 11 starts, with 95 hits, 51 runs, 42 earned, 27 walks and 64 strikeouts in 82.0 innings. All 11 starts came with Double-A Jacksonville of the Miami organization after he was signed on June 23 following his release from the Yankees. Tracy’s previous 121 minor league appearances and one major league game came as a part of the New York-AL organization, the team that drafted him in the 24th round in 2011 out of the University of Mississippi. He made his MLB debut with the Yankees on April 11, 2015 vs. Boston, allowing three unearned runs on two hits and two walks with a strikeout in 2.0 innings. Over half of his professional appearances (71 of 134) have come at the Double-A level.
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