The North East Knights have a new closer. The Italian Baseball League club signed the 26-year-old Venezuelan right-hander Jose Angel Mejias. He replaces Emmanuel Ulloa on the pitching staff, who will assume the role of pitching coach for manager Daniele Fuzzi. He played affiliated minor league ball for the Philadelphia Phillies, New York Mets and Tampa Bay Rays organizations between 2005 and 2009. During that time he had a combined ERA of 4.48, while playing as high as Double A. The past two years he played in Mexico, Bolivia, Venezuela and Colombia. Now he makes the jump to Europe.