The Cleveland Indians today announced that they have signed RHP TOM MASTNY to a minor league free agent deal and will report to Early Spring Training minor league camp on March 2.

Mastny, 29, returns to Cleveland after spending the 2009 season in Japan pitching for the Yokohama Bay Stars. He went 1-5 with a 5.69ERA (61.2IP/39ER) in 15 games for the Bay Stars. Before going to Japan he spent the previous four seasons in the Indians system appearing in a career-high 51 games for Cleveland in 2007 (7-2, 4.68ERA).

The Borneo, Indonesian-born righty has made 80 Major League appearances/1 start with Cleveland, going 9-5 with five saves and having an ERA of 6.13 (94.0IP, 108H, 64ER, 51BB, 85K). Tom was originally drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 11^th round of the 2003 amateur draft out of Furman University.