The Orioles have designated infielder Joey Terdoslavich, the club announced. His roster spot goes to slugger Chris Davis, who just officially inked a seven-year contract with Baltimore.
Terdoslavich was claimed only about two weeks ago from the Braves. The 27-year-old has put up a .264/.337/.423 slash in extensive Triple-A action, but hasn’t earned much of a shot in the majors. Part of the issue is that he’s not played at third base for quite a while, and his bat will have to do a lot of work for him to make sense in the majors as a first baseman or corner outfielder.
Shoot I liked Joey t sad the Orioles released him
Didn’t release him dfa him he was never going to make roster
They didn’t release him, juss took him off of the 40 man roster
What an unfortunate name.
I know these are beyond fringe players so it doesn’t happen enough to warrant a rule change, but I’d like to see a rule that if no one claims a player he is assigned to the minors for the team that last had him on their 25 man roster or played a game for.
I know at least in this case the O’s wanted him to give him a look in Spring if they didn’t sign a player, but to help prevent DFA limbo just to stock pile fringe players in AAA.