 After spending spring training with the New York Mets in , he signed to play with the Devil Rays' Triple-A team.Despite good peripheral numbers of 61 strikeouts in 46 innings and a .229 opponents' batting average, he went 0-3 with a 4.11 ERA and was released in July.Nelson then had a short 13-inning stint with the Cardinals' Double-A club, allowing just four hits over that span.