FORMER DOG GROVER, EX-SAINT CREASY TAKEN IN RULE 5 DRAFT TRIPLE-A PHASE
Source: American Association News
By Bob Wirz Two major league organizations shelled out a total of $48,000 Thursday to obtain a pair of right-handed pitchers who were in the American Association within the last two seasons. Taylor Grover, who spent all of 2018 with the new Chicago Dogs before signing with Cincinnati after the season, had his contract picked up by Baltimore as the No. 1 selection in the Triple-A phase of the Rule 5 draft on the final day of baseball’s Winter Meetings in Las Vegas. Sixteen selections later, Atlanta obtained Jason Creasy, a member of the St. Paul Saints‘ starting staff for two months of the 2017 season. He was taken from the Arizona Diamondbacks system. Each draftee in the Triple-A portion of the draft cost the selecting team $24,000, a figure that was only half that much one year ago. Grover, who had gotten as high as Double-A in five seasons in the Boston farm system after the Red Sox had chosen him in the 10th round of the 2013 June amateur draft prior to joining the first-year Dogs, struck out 63 American Association batters in only 48 innings spread over 43 appearances for manager Butch Hobson’s team. He saved 14…
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