We’ll track the day’s minor moves here:
- The Mariners have outrighted catcher Rob Brantly after he cleared waivers, Bob Dutton of the Tacoma News Tribune reports on Twitter. Claimed off waivers in March, Brantly wasn’t able to win a reserve job out of camp and was recently designated for assignment. The 26-year-old backstop owns a .225/.286/.317 slash over 392 MLB plate appearances over parts of three seasons. Brantly will look to pick up where he left off in the upper minors last year; he slashed .310/.335/.483 and hit eight home runs over 215 plate appearances in the minors in 2015.
He will do well in the PCL, and hopefully, get another shot. He seems to have figured out how to wait back on breaking stuff, as that was what gave him problems in NOLA a few years ago when I watched him the full season.