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Giants Re-Sign Chadwick Tromp

By Connor Byrne | December 9, 2020 at 12:34pm CDT

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.

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  1. anthonyd4412

    4 months ago

    Tromp. Four more years!

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    • claude raymond

      4 months ago

      Pence too?

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      • tward09

        4 months ago

        Pence retired.

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        • JoeBrady

          4 months ago

          Pence retired.
          —————————–
          Man, you Far left radicals never give up. Pence is still 6 weeks away from retirement.

          3 Like
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        • paddyo875

          4 months ago

          Joe….ever heard of Hunter Pence?

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        • sacball

          4 months ago

          And you right wing racists always think it’s about you…

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        • VampWeekAtBern

          4 months ago

          Congratulations to claude raymond on the successful troll job.

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        • miltpappas

          4 months ago

          Annnnd another overuse of the word “racist”

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        • JoeBrady

          4 months ago

          And you right wing racists always think it’s about you…
          —————————————————————–
          Grow a sense of humor. It was a joke.

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        • bigguccisosa300

          4 months ago

          @Joe

          Funny joke bro

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    • tedtheodorelogan

      4 months ago

      Stop the steal, 33% of the time.

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      • DarkSide830

        4 months ago

        ingenious

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  2. 13Morgs13

    4 months ago

    Bart is so overrated.

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    • AndyWarpath

      4 months ago

      bad take

      5 Like
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    • DubsDynasty

      4 months ago

      Yep

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      • DubsDynasty

        4 months ago

        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

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        • Dixon Mias

          4 months ago

          Lol, stop trolling. He hasn’t played a game in AAA yet.

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        • Wolf Chan

          4 months ago

          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 –

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    • sf giants mania

      4 months ago

      Your overrated

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      • Technically correct

        4 months ago

        *you’re

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    • tward09

      4 months ago

      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

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  3. Mrtwotone

    4 months ago

    I suppose he’s here to make SF great again! Orange man!

    3 Like
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    • sf giants mania

      4 months ago

      Why bring politics to sports over someone’s name?

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      • Mrtwotone

        4 months ago

        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?

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    • Balk

      4 months ago

      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!

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  4. algionfriddo

    4 months ago

    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.

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  5. SUNTV

    4 months ago

    would love to see Chadwick Tromp catch for Montana DuRapau

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    • geg42

      4 months ago

      I thought that was a pitcher from 100 years ago but no, alive and pitching today.

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  6. SGva

    4 months ago

    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..

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    • SGva

      4 months ago

      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”

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      • antibelt

        4 months ago

        Lol. Someone’s salty.

        6 Like
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    • fox471

      4 months ago

      Article said 2 out of 6. Pitch framing was in 67 percentile. Were there two articles?

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    • los_leebos

      4 months ago

      So you’re saying he can #stopthesteal?

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      • geg42

        4 months ago

        Much better than 1 for 52

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  7. PandaExpress

    4 months ago

    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.

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  8. commentinggenius

    4 months ago

    Giants, or Giants catchers?

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    • paddyo875

      4 months ago

      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.

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  9. kreckert

    4 months ago

    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.

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  10. retire21

    4 months ago

    Tromp knows more about catching than anybody. Believe me. He just gets it.

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    • antibelt

      4 months ago

      He’s huge! Lol

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    • paddyo875

      4 months ago

      Retire21, he’s probably the best, the greatest ever!

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      • Boe Jiden

        4 months ago

        Chadwick Tromp is a #forevergiant

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    • differentbears

      4 months ago

      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.

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      • retire21

        4 months ago

        differentbears, pure brilliance.

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    • geg42

      4 months ago

      He really should just be called up for a cup of covfefe.

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      • JDGoat

        4 months ago

        Lmao

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  11. Dorothy_Mantooth

    4 months ago

    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.

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    • tward09

      4 months ago

      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

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  12. humphrey x boegarts

    4 months ago

    Chadwick Tromp sounds like a daje name you’d make up on the spot. Might be buddies with George Cauldron

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    • humphrey x boegarts

      4 months ago

      *fake name

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      • Buzz Saw

        4 months ago

        Yours or his?

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        • Technically correct

          4 months ago

          merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bogart

          Almost appropriate.

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    • filthyrich

      4 months ago

      Their friendship eroded after a fight over the attention of the lovely Miss Lampy Tableson

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      • fox471

        4 months ago

        Buzz saw that was funny!

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  13. DarkSide830

    4 months ago

    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?

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    • Sadler

      4 months ago

      Roster spots are not guaranteed. He can be released to free up a roster spot if/when the Giants feel the need.

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      • DarkSide830

        4 months ago

        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.

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        • tad2b13

          4 months ago

          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.

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  14. hopper15

    4 months ago

    What was the point of non tendering him? I thought it was to bring him back on a minor league deal

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    • tad2b13

      4 months ago

      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.

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      • hopper15

        4 months ago

        @tad2b12 Considering he wasn’t arbitration eligible yet I doubt it was about saving money.

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        • tad2b13

          4 months ago

          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.

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  15. los_leebos

    4 months ago

    going “comments closed for this story”. wouldve been a better joke than all of these ^

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  16. Rangers29

    4 months ago

    Chadwick runs with a Tromp Stomp.

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  17. jessaumodesto

    4 months ago

    He’s my sleeper pick for MVP this year

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  18. biffpocoroba

    4 months ago

    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.

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    • paddyo875

      4 months ago

      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.

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    • Sadler

      4 months ago

      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.

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    • tad2b13

      4 months ago

      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.

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  19. WarrenSpahn

    4 months ago

    hard to see what the Gints see in Tromp. in what conceivable way did he impress someone?

    btw, is Busty Poser coming back?

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  20. al spath

    4 months ago

    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).

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