The Mariners have claimed outfielder Jose Siri off waivers from the Reds, tweets C. Trent Rosecrans of The Athletic. The Seattle organization hasn’t formally announced the move yet and will need to make a corresponding 40-man transaction to open space for Siri, who was designated for assignment last week when the Reds inked Nick Castellanos to a four-year deal.
Siri, 24, was considered to be among Cincinnati’s best farmhands just two years ago. FanGraphs, in fact, ranked him near the back end of the game’s 100 best prospects (No. 93 overall) heading into the 2018 campaign. At that point, he was a 22-year-old who was fresh off an impressive .293/.341/.530 slash with 24 homers and 46 steals in the Class-A Midwest League.
Since that time, however, Siri has turned in a pair of disappointing seasons, logging a combined on-base percentage south of .300 in 2018-19 between Class-A Advanced, Double-A and Triple-A. This past season, Siri mustered a lackluster .237/.300/.357 showing through 517 plate appearances in the minors, and he’s struggled even more heavily in the Dominican Winter League (.196/.264/.411 in 125 plate appearances).
The addition of Siri comes not long after the Mariners learned that they’ll be without right fielder Mitch Haniger early in the season due to core surgery. Haniger recently suffered a setback when rehabbing from the ruptured testicle that sidelined him for much of the 2019 season and could miss up to eight weeks of action. With Haniger sidelined for what could be much of Spring Training, Siri will join an outfield mix consisting of Mallex Smith, Kyle Lewis, Dee Gordon, Jake Fraley and Braden Bishop. Siri has a minor league option remaining, so the Mariners can keep him even if he doesn’t break camp with the club.
Hey Siri
Beat me lol
Beat me too
Don’t you mean Hola Seri.
please beat me as well
LMAO
hey siri, tell me something original to say on this post
Sorry, I didn’t quite get that.
Alexa is a lot more sexier…..
And smarter most of the time
Her jokes are terrible, especially her Star Wars jokes, though.
More sexier? Son, get to bed, 3rd graders need their sleep.
Wow, what an uninspiring group of outfielders. Go get Joc!
they have no reason to be trading for Joc
Uninspiring? They’re all young and talented. We have no business trading talent for Joc in this rebuild year.
Not a bad pick up honestly
Great move by the M’s, and I think this may be an extremely under the radar move (as it should be), but I think being in a young developing organization will help him. Good move with a high ceiling.
I agree. lots of power and swing and miss. one of the comps I heard on him was Soler with more speed. I thought for sure Farhan was gonna slip him into the Giants farm.
Put Siri in left, grab Franky Alexa to play center and roll out Anthony Echo in right. Best outfield ever.
they would certainly do what was asked of them!
Really coach-able.
Nope, if you did that, and one of them was on 2nd relaying signs to the hitter, it would be electronic sign stealing…
I asked Alexa who she was voting for….her rely: “There is no voting in the cloud…..yet”…….
I got it baseballpun, not sure anyone else will.
You’re on fire.
Indeed, truly an obscure, arcane reference that few people will understand.
No trade from Cincinnati? Interesting…
he isnt worth an asset, much less a roster spot.
Siri had a down year and stunted his progress with the Reds.
That said, he’s no joke and there was talk before Senzel took to CF so well that Siri would be brought up because of his defense and the year before last he had hit really well…when the reds made the trade with the dodgers and got Puig, etc that move wasn’t realistic…Siri is a legit prospect (or has been) and this is another young player (Shed Long, Jeter Downs, etc) that the reds have let go of while building their MLB team.
Siri hasn’t done anything to warrant keeping him. He made his name entirely off his long hitting streak at Dayton in 2017. I will agree that I wish they had kept Downs, especially since he’s been rumored to be heading to Boston if a Betts trade goes down.
Hey Google, I need outfield depth.
“Hey Siri, make me a sandwich.”
Your username really stinks.
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You r one pathetic loser(Jim Carrey voice). Burn in hades u b-hole worshiper.
U r 1 pathetic loser(Jim Carrey voice). Burn in hades u b-hole worshiper.
This guy is very overrated. You’re basically just overpaying for the brand, dudes.
Juan Cortana would’ve been much better value for your buck.
Siri is very good defensively, so if he can be just average with the bat, he will be valuable. The problem is, he hasn’t been anywhere near average with the bat in the high minors.
Surprised the Pirates didn’t take a flyer on him.
“Pirates” is a funny way to spell “Orioles”.
Who has the worst season? Orioles, Pirates, Royals or Marlins?
My money is on the Orioles…not sure anyone on that team besides Mancini could start for any other team!
O’s will be better, because how can’t you be. But they are destined for another dumpster fire
I get why the Reds would DFA him, but man he has talent. Definitely see him having some bright moments in Seattle, if not a solid career.
Hey Siri, who should the reds have DFA’d? Jankowski or Schebler.