We’ll track Wednesday’s minor moves throughout baseball here…
- The Rangers announced that corner infielder Patrick Wisdom has cleared outright waivers and been assigned to Triple-A Nashville. The 27-year-old went 4-for-26 with a double in a brief nine-game stint with Texas and has scuffled to a .199/.310/.389 slash in 259 plate appearances with Nashville this season. However, Wisdom mashed at a .288/.363/.480 clip in 421 PAs with the Cardinals’ top affiliate last season. The former supplemental-round pick has a generally solid track record in Triple-A and will stick around with the Texas org as a depth option in the event of further injuries at the MLB level.
Earlier Moves
- The Tigers announced that right-hander Austin D. Adams cleared waivers and was sent outright to Triple-A Toledo. Not to be confused with the Mariners reliever of the same first and last name (Austin L. Adams) the 32-year-old Adams returned to the big leagues in 2019 for the first time since 2016 but hasn’t experienced much in the way of success. In 16 2/3 innings between the Twins and Tigers, Adams has a 7.02 ERA with 14 strikeouts, 13 walks and four homers allowed. He logged an impressive 28-to-6 K/BB ratio in 18 innings with Minnesota’s Triple-A club earlier this year and has a lifetime 3.64 ERA and 10.1 K/9 at that level. Adams has previously been outrighted, so he’ll have the option of rejecting the assignment in favor of free agency, although a threadbare Tigers ’pen that looks likely to lose Shane Greene via trade in the next three weeks could present Adams a viable path back to the Majors later in the year.
2 Austin Adams,2 Josh Smiths, how am I gonna keep track of all the roster fillers in the MLB?
There were 2 Juan Perezs, 2 Justin Millers 2 Zach Davies, 2 Kyle Waldrops, 2 Josh Fields, and 2 Jose Ramirezs.
I’ve got even more now. 3 Miguel Gonzalezs (The former Orioles pitcher, a catcher, and the now deceased Phillies pitcher), 2 pitchers named Chris Smith, 2 Adam Eatons (outfielder and pitcher) 2 Chris Youngs (very tall pitcher and outfielder), 2 pitchers named Jose Valdez, 2 Matt Duffys (third baseman and pinch hitter), 2 Michael Taylors (both outfielder), and if you it could count it even though one of them changed their name to Ervin, 2 Johan Santanas.
2 Ryan Brauns
2 David Carpenters (current Rangers reliever, and former Angels and Braves pitcher)
2 Daniel Robertsons
Also 2 Brady Feigl’s. And they look a lot alike despite not being related
I was talking current lol but thanks for the list when I need to gripe about similar names
Hooray for middle initials!
Well this put a smile on my day!
So many similar names!
Super random, but I just remembered nick punto
I read your comment, and coincidentally I just remembered nick punto too
Smart move by the Rangers
Wisdom looked like a really good get by the Rangers at the time of the trade, but boy he has struggled mightily this year