Monday, December 23, 2024

Notes: Hall Comes, Cabbage Goes; Ex-Bucs Find New Nests

More like the cold stove season:

Pirates Stuff:

  • 1B Darick Hall, 29, signed a minor league deal including a spring invite with the Pirates. He's slashed .226/.258/.442 over 60 big league games with the Phils between 2022-23, hitting 10 homers and fanning 62 times in 198 PAs. Hall hit .236 with 16 dingers and 72 RBI for AAA Lehigh Valley last year.
  • OF Trey Cabbage, claimed by the Bucs from Baltimore early last month, was released so that he could join the Japanese League's Yomiuri Giants.
Other Stuff: 
  • LHP Brandon Waddell, 30, a 2015 Bucco draft pick who has tossed for the Pirates, Twins, Orioles, Cards and in the Chinese & Korean Leagues, signed a minor-league deal with the Mets.
Brandon Waddell - 2018 photo/MLB Pipeline
  • The D-Backs & IF Ildemaro Vargas agreed on a minor league contract. He got into seven 2021 games with Pittsburgh, with one hit.
  • RHP Colten Brewer, who the Pirates lost to the Yankees via Rule 5 in 2016, just signed a minor league deal with NY; it's his third stop in the Big Apple.
  • The Chicago White Sox and RHP Bryse Wilson, 27, agreed on a one-year deal valued at $1.05M with $250K of bonus money available. Bryse pitched for the Bucs between 2021-22, posting a 4-13/5.37 slash mainly as a starter.
  • 1B Carlos Santana signed with the Guardians for one-year/$12M. It's the third time Santana has been with Cleveland.
  • The Reds claimed RHP Roansy Contreras, waived last week, from the Rangers.
  • LHP Josh Walker was signed by Toronto to a one-year/$760K contract. The 30-year-old was a Bucco briefly last year. He was obtained in a minor league deal with the Mets (0-1/6.45 in two years/24 outings) in late July, DFA'ed 10 days later, re-signed and then let go again after in November after being ineffective at Indy. Walker is a big K guy but profiles as a AAAA player.


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