The Giants have released veteran infielder Josh Rutledge from their Triple-A affiliate in Sacramento, tweets Henry Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle. He’d been playing there on a minor league pact signed back in December.
Rutledge, 29, appeared in 18 games for the River Cats and totaled 54 plate appearances, hitting at a woeful .077/.111/.077 clip. Obviously, it’s a substantial outlier for a player with a career .280/.341/.418 slash in 163 career games at the Triple-A level, but it’s not hard to see why the Giants elected to move on.
Rutledge spent each of the past three seasons with the Red Sox, batting a combined .252/.319/.313 in 259 plate appearances as he moved back and forth between the Majors and Triple-A Pawtucket. The versatile infielder is a career .258/.310/.384 hitter in the Majors and has significant experience at both middle-infield slots in addition to nearly 300 innings at third base.
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Thank you for this lol.
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Red Sox give him another chance
Exactly what I was thinking. They love this fool for some reason. Even though he bolts every chance he gets. It’s so bizarre
When healthy, he’s been a useful bench player. He’s very brittle however and I’m guessing hiding an injury or two. Even with BP signed, I can see Boston adding minor league depth.
The Three Stooges are meeting later this morning to convince Mets ownership to sign Rutledge. “Cant be any worse than some of our players in the system, plus Fred his contract is CHEAP!”
Sounds like a guy O’s would take chance on since they are already weak in the left side and removing Machado will make things really bad. If Os move Valencia and Machado it means right now Jace Peterson and Tim Beckham will be the left side of infield. Scary