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bleacherbum
In 5 years in the minors thus far he has 79 HR’s & a .281 average, seems like he could be a nice fit for the Padres in a utility-man capacity. They need to just DFA Adam Rosales & give Kivelhan a chance.
Any Ranger or Mariner fans have a scouting report on him? Any reason why he didn’t stick with either organization?
birdman44
He’s a good waiver pick up. Surprise he got DFA’d by the M’s. The rangers gave up on him way too prematurely, and has been pretty good in AAA for the M’s.
disgruntledreader 2
He’s also the best cover corner in the PCL.
bleacherbum
Oh yeah? Who does he get to cover in the PCL? Receivers like Antonio Brown & Julio Jones and them? #Kivelhanisland lol
ThatGuy 2
Cover corner? What type of baseball are they playing in the PCL?
kjt404
Kivlehan was a DB/LB at Rutgers until he picked baseball up again his Senior year.
davep-3
Good claim for Padres. They are in build mode and have most of their prospects in low minors. We should see several of these types of claims over next year or 2.
bayls13
Didn’t start playing baseball till his senior year at Rutgers. What you see from his minors stat constitute 90% of his baseball career
yakyubeisbol
He had a great winter season in the Dominican Republic 2015-16.
aff10
Just a minor side note: Justin De Fratus was the PTBNL of the trade, although I’m not sure he’s even still in the Texas organization anymore anyways, so it might be irrelevant
whereslou
Not sure what happened a couple years ago he was the talk of the system. They thought he might pass DJ Peterson and take 1st from him. He was hitting better and playing pretty good. He hit the crap out of the ball in winter ball like someone said then last year slid a bit. Then with the trade must have messed with his head or something we were happy to get him back but just not the same guy. No injuries or anything do I am not sure what happened. If SD can figure it out he has some talent and can hit you might hit gold. Not sure if we just stuck him in AAA and forgot about him or if they tried to fix what was wrong. Too bad because he had a bright future hopefully SD can get him going again.
rangerfan23
As a Rangers fan, he will be a good fourth outfielder for San Diego. I was hoping he would get a chance in Texas but Ryan rue has been good for off the bench type player
rangerfan23
Ryan rua….my bad