{"id":376865,"date":"2025-12-30T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/376865\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T08:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:00:08","slug":"d-backs-re-sign-john-curtiss-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/376865\/","title":{"rendered":"D-Backs Re-Sign John Curtiss To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Diamondbacks re-signed reliever\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/curtijo02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-29_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">John Curtiss<\/a> to a minor league contract last week (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/mlb\/arizona-diamondbacks\/john-curtiss-mi\/3606024\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">link via Arizona Sports<\/a>). The righty will presumably get a non-roster invitation to Spring Training.<\/p>\n<p>Curtiss returns to the desert for a second season. He\u2019d elected free agency when the D-Backs waived him at the beginning of the offseason. The 32-year-old spent the second half of the year on the MLB roster. Arizona selected his minor league contract at the end of June. Curtiss went on to toss 36 2\/3 innings of 3.93 ERA ball. He picked up three holds and even secured a late-season save, his first in the big leagues since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>That marked Curtiss\u2019 heaviest MLB workload in four years. Although the results were solid enough, he only managed a 17% strikeout rate with a 9% swinging strike mark. His fastball sat in the 94 MPH range and he leaned on a low-90s cutter as his main secondary pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Curtiss was miscast for some of the high-leverage spots in which the Diamondbacks were forced to use him late in the season. He has a decent path to winning a middle relief role if he pitches well during camp.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/pukaj01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-29_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A.J. Puk<\/a> and\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/martiju01.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Justin Martinez<\/a> will be on the injured list. They\u2019ve yet to make any MLB additions to a bullpen that needs at least two new leverage arms. They\u2019ve brought in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/campbis01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-29_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Isaiah Campbell<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/fernaju01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-29_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Junior Fern\u00e1ndez<\/a> on minor league deals this winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Diamondbacks re-signed reliever\u00a0John Curtiss to a minor league contract last week (link via Arizona Sports). The righty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,122280,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-376865","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-john-curtiss","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376865","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=376865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}