Koyie Hill is a now a free agent after declining his outright assignment to Triple-A Iowa, tweets Patrick Mooney of CSNChicago.com. The switch-hitting catcher was outrighted by the Cubs on Friday, a day after being designated for assignment.
Hill appeared in 11 games with the Cubs this year compiling a slash line of .179/.179/.205. Hill has a career line of .210/.271/.294 over 313 games in nine years. The 33-year-old will be looking to hook on with his fourth major league organization in 2012 after spending Spring Training with the Cardinals and playing for the Reds' Double-A affiliate.
Hill is an absolute, top shelf character guy and he handles pitchers well. Unfortunately, other than that, he’s really not good at baseball. You never know how long a backup catcher with MLB experience and a nice guy rep will manage to hang on, but it still feels like he’s just delaying the start of an inevitable coaching career.
lol…good luck with that Koy……I’m sure other teams are just dying to sign the cubs temporary emergency 3rd string catcher who bats .180 to a major league contract.
4th string.
When you get DFA’d by the worst team in baseball it’s time for a new career.
I watched a short interview of Koyie a while ago, but I can’t find it now.
I got the sense that Koyie was getting close to hanging it up before the Cubs called him, and he doesn’t have much interest in toiling away in the minors.
He’s a guy who I could see becoming a coach if he’s interested in that.