Dec. 9: The Giants have announced the deal, which is a Major League contract for Tromp.
Dec. 8: Catcher Chadwick Tromp announced on Twitter that he has re-signed with the Giants (h/t: Maria Guardado of MLB.com). The Giants non-tendered Tromp last week.
Tromp spent his first several professional seasons with the Reds, but he signed a minor league contract with the Giants last offseason and earned a major league opportunity. The 25-year-old finished second among Giants in games played (19) and batted .213/.219/.426 in 64 plate appearances in 2020. While Tromp did hit four home runs over that small sample size, a 20:1 K:BB ratio led to a poor overall line. Defensively, though, Tromp threw out 2-of-6 would-be base stealers (which aligns with his 33 percent rate in the minors) and, according to Statcast, finished in the league’s 67th percentile as a pitch framer.
While Tromp is surely hoping to continue as a major leaguer in 2021, it could be more of an uphill battle than it was this year. After all, starting catcher Buster Posey may return after opting out of the 2020 season. The Giants also still have prized prospect Joey Bart, who led their catchers in games played this past campaign, though it’s possible they will elect to send him to the minors and give the season-opening backup role to Tromp.
Tromp. Four more years!
Pence too?
Pence retired.
Pence retired.
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Man, you Far left radicals never give up. Pence is still 6 weeks away from retirement.
Joe….ever heard of Hunter Pence?
And you right wing racists always think it’s about you…
Congratulations to claude raymond on the successful troll job.
Annnnd another overuse of the word “racist”
And you right wing racists always think it’s about you…
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Grow a sense of humor. It was a joke.
@Joe
Funny joke bro
Stop the steal, 33% of the time.
ingenious
Bart is so overrated.
bad take
Yep
Bart is nowhere close to being a legit big league catcher. Not yet. And his bat? He looked lost at the plate. Big long swing. His strikeout to AB ratio was ugly
Lol, stop trolling. He hasn’t played a game in AAA yet.
yeah.., because he was thrown in without development. give him a chance to ease in and possibly spend some time @ AAA this year once posey is back so he doesn’t need to be made the primary backstop for a major league team just to get time –
Your overrated
*you’re
Says what? He had a high hard hit rate, and skipped AAA! He was rushed to the bigs. Can’t wait to see a full season of a fully prepared Bart
I suppose he’s here to make SF great again! Orange man!
Why bring politics to sports over someone’s name?
It’s a joke get your panties out of a wad. It wasn’t an attempt to be political. Good grief what’s your problem?
San Francisco needs someone to come in and make it great again that’s for sure! Hahaha, I can’t even trust walking down the streets of San Fran with my kids anymore without worrying they step on a needle or walk in poop!
Bart looked awful every game I watched but sss and he does project well. He just wasn’t ready yet. He’s just a kid as catchers go. Tromp is a fine backup option and gives Bart time to tune his game at AAA. Bart must play every day and must not be rushed.
would love to see Chadwick Tromp catch for Montana DuRapau
I thought that was a pitcher from 100 years ago but no, alive and pitching today.
According to Baseball-Reference.com, Tromp threw out two of six attempted steals. That’s a 33% rate which is good. However, it isn’t 4 out of 6 attempts as noted in the article. That would be a phenomenal 67% throw out percentage..
I see Connor corrected his error. Would be nice if you indicated that and gave due credit for someone looking out for accuracy. Just sayin”
Lol. Someone’s salty.
Article said 2 out of 6. Pitch framing was in 67 percentile. Were there two articles?
So you’re saying he can #stopthesteal?
Much better than 1 for 52
Makes sense for Bart’s development. Also this is good for our roster management, as we keep an extra 40 man spot by signing him to a minor league contract. And then come spring training when Beede goes back on the 60 day we can slide Tromp in there.
Giants, or Giants catchers?
I noticed that too. 19 games played being 2nd among the whole team would mean they had a whole lot of IL stints or they formed their team like a constant streamer in FLB.
Huh. If the vowel in his name was an U instead of an O I wouldn’t re-sign him.
*I advise you all to have a sense of humor, because I am, indeed, joking.
Tromp knows more about catching than anybody. Believe me. He just gets it.
He’s huge! Lol
Retire21, he’s probably the best, the greatest ever!
Chadwick Tromp is a #forevergiant
I’ve got these guys coming up to me, tears in their eyes, large, huge men, and they’re crying. They say, “Mr. President, Sir, no one has ever re-signed a Giant before, thank you for bringing our backup catcher back.” It’s beautiful how many players we’re looking at, just beautiful. No one ever believed we could do it, nobody has seen anything like what we’re doing, and it’s a real shame. So we’re going to be looking into it very strongly.
differentbears, pure brilliance.
He really should just be called up for a cup of covfefe.
Lmao
Drafting a catcher is the hardest position for scouts to get correct. There’s just so much that can go wrong in their minors’ development. Hopefully Bart will turn into a premier #1 catcher but the early results don’t look great. Meanwhile, Piazza turns into a hall of famer being drafted after Round 50! Teams still continue to consistently draft catching prospects in the 1st round for some reason. The kid from Miami will probably go high in this year’s draft too but he’ll end up moving to 1B. He’s all bat in college which doesn’t bode well for the majors.
Bart also was rushed into the bigs. He had barely any AA experience, and skipped AAA. How about give the guy a chance and understand the circumstances
Chadwick Tromp sounds like a daje name you’d make up on the spot. Might be buddies with George Cauldron
*fake name
Yours or his?
merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bogart
Almost appropriate.
Their friendship eroded after a fight over the attention of the lovely Miss Lampy Tableson
Buzz saw that was funny!
teams seem intent on wasting all their 40 man spots this offseason. not saying Tromp is bad or anything, but why the need for a guaranteed spot?
Roster spots are not guaranteed. He can be released to free up a roster spot if/when the Giants feel the need.
but you’re just wasting that $500,000 then. not a lot, but if you are going to non-tender and resign the guy for a few thousand then i assume you wouldnt want to waste hundreds of thousands.
DarkSide830:
Not sure how you see them wasting $500,000. I think it’s safe to assume, since they did not sign him to a minor’s deal after non-tendering him, that reason was to save money, and sign him for less than they would had owed him had be been tendered.
The fact that it is a major league deal indicates they want Tromp to be Posey’s back-up in 2021. If they preferred someone else as back-up, and wanted him for minor league depth, they would have signed him to a minor league deal.
What was the point of non tendering him? I thought it was to bring him back on a minor league deal
hopper15:
The deal wasn’t about that, it was about signing him for less money. They guaranteed the contract with the major league deal, because they clearly want him as Posey’s back-up in 2021, not as minor league depth.
@tad2b12 Considering he wasn’t arbitration eligible yet I doubt it was about saving money.
hopper15:
Yeah, you’re right about not saving money, But I stand by the reason for the ML deal. He’s their back up, not just for MiL depth. Why they went about it the way did is a mystery, but there must have been some reason we don’t know about.
going “comments closed for this story”. wouldve been a better joke than all of these ^
Chadwick runs with a Tromp Stomp.
He’s my sleeper pick for MVP this year
As DarkSide and hopper mentioned above, what’s getting missed here is that they gave Tromp a ML contract and roster spot and not a minor league contract. That should tell us more about their plans for Bart in ’21 than anything else to date. They aren’t planning on elevating him anytime soon, and giving him all season to calibrate to AAA instead of any more penalty from being rushed too soon last season. That’s good.
But it also may mean he misses out on Buster in ’21, and with Patrick Bailey and Genoves already in the pipeline, the placement of Tromp onto the ’21 major-league roster may signal more than we know.
Are minor league contracts even viable for this upcoming season? They weren’t worth much more than a weekly $300 check for part of 2020.
Tromp can get released at any point if/when they feel Bart is ready. Back in September, Zaidi publicly stated they expect Bart to start the year in the minors.
mlb.com/giants/news/farhan-zaidi-on-giants-season-…
Nothing about this move is odd, revealing, or blocks any potential future moves.
biffpocoroba:
It would be great if Bart could get tutoring from Posey, but that’s a waste of a 26-man spot when Bart is clearly not ready. I was surprised he was called up last season after only 22 games at AA and zero at AAA. Catchers need more time, and usually get it, than any other position player.
The minors are all about learning and the majors are about producing. The Giants are taking the long view. Bart will probably become a better catcher later on starting at Sacramento on a regular basis, and getting instruction, than sitting on the bench in SF, getting only the occasional start, and having to focus on producing.
hard to see what the Gints see in Tromp. in what conceivable way did he impress someone?
btw, is Busty Poser coming back?
Yankees should return Gleyber to second, trade for Lindor (SS), and give Cleveland: Andujar, Cessa or Green, and Ford (so Sanchez can occasionally play first and Voit DH).