The Mariners announced today that they have claimed LHP Sammy Peralta off waivers from the White Sox and assigned him to Triple-A Tacoma. That move helps shore up a relatively thin area in the organization; prior to the move, the only lefties Tacoma had were Jhonathan Diaz, who’s been working as a starter, and Kirby Snead.
Peralta, 25, was a 2019 18th-rounder out of a mix of Florida community college and Division II schools, although he originally hails from Queens. He dominated the lower minors for the White Sox organization before running into a bit of a walk problem in the upper minors in 2022.