{"id":264948,"date":"2025-11-06T05:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T05:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/264948\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T05:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T05:59:08","slug":"diamondbacks-outright-four-players-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/264948\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks Outright Four Players – MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The D-Backs outrighted four players off the 40-man roster, according to the MLB.com transaction log<\/a>. Right-handers\u00a0John Curtiss<\/a> and\u00a0Casey Kelly<\/a>, lefty Kyle Nelson<\/a>, and infielder\u00a0Connor Kaiser<\/a> all went unclaimed on waivers. They can all elect free agency and will presumably do so within the next day or two.<\/p>\n

Nelson is the only member of that group who spent more than one season with Arizona. The Snakes claimed the 29-year-old reliever off waivers from Cleveland over the 2021-22 offseason. Nelson pitched to a 2.19 ERA across 43 appearances during his first season in the desert. His numbers tailed off in 2023 and he hasn\u2019t been much of a factor over the past two seasons. Nelson missed most of the \u201924 campaign due to thoracic outlet syndrome. He only made three big league appearances while allowing more than a run per inning over 42 Triple-A games this year.<\/p>\n

Curtiss signed a minor league contract with the Snakes over the offseason. They called him up in late June. He tossed 36 2\/3 innings across 30 MLB appearances. Curtiss managed a respectable 3.93 ERA but only punched out 17% of batters faced. The 32-year-old righty carries a 4.03 ERA across 145 1\/3 innings over parts of eight seasons. This amounts to an early non-tender instead of a projected $1.2MM arbitration salary.<\/p>\n

Kelly and Kaiser got cups of coffee as late-season stopgaps. The 36-year-old Kelly pitched in a pair of games in August, pitching around a hit and a walk to work 1 2\/3 scoreless innings. He spent most of the year working out of the rotation at Triple-A Reno, pitching to a 5.63 ERA with a well below-average 11.5% strikeout rate over 115 innings. Kaiser, who turns 29 in a few weeks, played in 11 games after his contract was selected in August. He picked up his first two big league knocks. The Vanderbilt product is a glove-only middle infielder who hit .236\/.345\/.406 with a 27.5% strikeout rate in Triple-A.<\/p>\n

The cuts get Arizona\u2019s 40-man roster to compliance for tomorrow\u2019s deadline. Teams need to reinstate all players from the 60-day injured list by Thursday. The D-Backs had been at 44 players including those who\u2019ll come off the injured list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The D-Backs outrighted four players off the 40-man roster, according to the MLB.com transaction log. Right-handers\u00a0John Curtiss and\u00a0Casey…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,64763,122280,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-264948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-connor-kaiser","11":"tag-john-curtiss","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}