The Blue Jays have agreed to a minor league deal with former Phillies top prospect Domonic Brown, tweets Ben Nicholson-Smith of Sportsnet.ca. The Scott Boras client will receive an invitation to Spring Training.
Brown, 28, was an All Star in 2013 when he hit 12 home runs during the month of May as part of a .272/.324/.494 campaign with 27 home runs. Aside from that one fantastic month, Brown has generally offered below average offensive production. Injuries limited him to a .228/.284/.349 line in just 204 plate appearances last season. The outfielder has also graded poorly defensively.
The Blue Jays have a strong reputation for getting the most out of their hitters. Their biggest successes include Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion, although they’ve also received value from lesser players like Danny Valencia and Justin Smoak. Brown is a potential platoon option with Chris Colabello if Michael Saunders fails to stay healthy and Dalton Pompey is deemed unready. He may also serve as minor league inventory with the likes of Junior Lake, Darrell Ceciliani, and others.
He may also serve as minor league inventory – minor league “inventory” is there anything not absolutely offensive about this designation ?
Agree. The word depth is usually used there. Baseball is truly a business.
Most things labeled as “inventory” are probably smarter and can play better outfield than Domonic Brown.
still, doesn’t mean that inventory should be offended.
With Lake, Ceciliani, etc. Cola will definitely not see any time in the OF this year. Lol.
Green Monster, you one of those people who is offended by everything?
Absolutely not, just the opposite, it’s just that I think of human beings in deferent terms than I would what’s in my warehouse or on the selling floor at Crazy Kelly’s discount carpets. Just a poor choice of words for me.
I’m glad someone finally did.
There is something there. He will have to work. Maybe he becomes a platoon player, but his glove really holds him back from retaining any value if he doesnt hit.
Was supposed to be part of the Halliday trade but Phillies didn’t want to part with him then? Jays finally get their man. A little late and a lot less hype. But agreed. Nice inventory and maybe a change of scenery will tap into the hidden potential.
……….maybe a change of scenery will tap into the hidden potential.
Yes, dogriver; and let’s not forget Jacoby, who is a master of getting the best out of his hitters.
Kind of reminds me of when Edwin Encarnacion went there and everyone thought he was done.
So disappointing :/ years ago I used to be so hype about Michael Taylor and Dom Brown as the next two big things in philly and well….we all know how great that worked out, at the time I was upset the Phillies traded off so many prospects but only darnaud has been somewhat successful so at least they haven’t been haunted by past trades
Took him years to get it together, but Carlos Carrasco has actually turned into a good mid rotation starter as well.
Jake Arrietta too
Arrieta was never in the Phillies system.
I just hope the Blue Jays get better production than the Phillies did with this gentlemen. He was not a good outfielder who did not always have his head in the game.