The New York Yankees have signed Jack Cust to a minor league deal, Sweeny Murti of WFAN reports.
Cust signed a one-year deal with the Astros in January but was released by them earlier this week.
Cust averaged 28 home runs from 2007-09 and was looking to re-establish his offense with the Astros and prior [...]
03/29/12
According to Alyson Footer, the Astros Sr. Director of Social Media, the Houston Astros have released outfielder Jack Cust and left handed pitcher Zach Duke.
Duke was 3-4 with a 4.93 ERA, 0.7 HR/9, 2.2 BB/9 and 3.8 SO/9 in 76.2 innings in 2011 with the Diamondbacks. Cust hit .213/.344/.329 with 3 HR’s, 44 BB’s and [...]
03/27/12
The Houston Astros have signed Jack Cust to a one-year deal with a club option for 2013, Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports.com reports.
Cust who was released by the Mariners in August last season, hit .213 with only 3 home runs while making $2.5mm.
Cust made a quick stop in Philadelphia at the end last season as he [...]
01/18/12
The Phillies have released Jack Cust and Aaron Heilman, Matt Gelb of the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.
Both Cust and Heilman were in the Minor Leagues providing the Phillies organizational depth and looked like potential September call-ups when they were signed.
Cust was signed only eight days ago to a minor league deal, but hit only .250 in [...]
08/20/11
The Seattle Mariners have announced via a press release that they have released designated hitter Jack Cust. Cust previously was designated by the team last week.
The 32-year-old Cust was hitting .213 with three home runs and 23 RBIs in 67 games for the Mariners this season.
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08/04/11
The Mariners announced via a team press release that Jack Cust has been designated for assignment to open up a roster spot for Erik Bedard who is pitching tonight.
Cust hit .213 in 270 plate appearances all as the team’s designated hitter.
Cust who signed a one-year $2.5 million deal in December was supposed to provide power [...]
07/29/11
It’s possible that Jack Cust of the Seattle Mariners could lose his job as the team’s designated hitter soon, Geoff Baker of the Seattle Times speculates.
The team is expecting Franklin Gutierrezback soon, and since Cust is hitting .171 with a .511 OBPS and 0 home runs, the Mariner’s patience is growing thin.
Baker predicts that Cust [...]
04/27/11
Shannon Drayer of 710am ESPN says via Twitter that the Seattle Mariners have officially signed Jack Cust to a one-year deal. She notes that a corresponding roster move will be made on Monday. The deal is believed to be worth around $2.5 million.
Susan Slusser of the SFChronicle was the first to report that Cust was [...]
12/10/10
The Third of the Winter Meetings, proved to be the busiest. Type-A free agents were signed, there were plenty of Cliff Lee rumors and we almost had a trade (maybe early tomorrow morning). O yeah and some guy name Carl Crawford signed a huge seven-year $142 million with the Red Sox. If you missed the [...]
12/09/10
According to team general manager Neal Huntington (via Pittsburgh Tribune-Review’s Rob Biertempfel), the Pirates would like to find a corner outfielder with some pop and who feasts on left-handed pitching. Two players on Huntington’s radar are Matt Diaz and Jack Cust.
Both Diaz and Cust were non-tendered by their respective teams earlier this week. Diaz hit [...]
12/04/10