The Giants have claimed outfielder Skye Bolt via waivers from the Athletics and designated right-hander Ashton Goudeau for assignment, per Alex Pavlovic of NBC Sports Bay Area.
The 27-year-old Bolt only spent a few days in limbo, as the Athletics designated him April 1. He joined the team as a fourth-round pick in 2015 and later ranked as one of Baseball America’s top 20 Athletics prospects on multiple occasions, but Bolt hasn’t gotten much major league experience yet. In 2019, the only season in which he made it to the bigs, Bolt collected one hit in 11 plate appearances. Bolt has been much more successful in Triple-A, where he has batted .269/.350/.459 over 347 trips to the plate.
Goudeau had a short stay on the 40-man roster of San Francisco, which claimed him from the Orioles on March 18. The 28-year-old previously spent time with the Pirates in the offseason, and he was in the Colorado organization before that. He made his MLB debut last year, but he totaled just 8 1/3 innings of seven-run ball. Goudeau did star during his most recent minors action, 2019, when he pitched to a stellar 2.07 ERA with similarly impressive strikeout and walk percentages (30.1 and 4.0, respectively) in 78 1/3 Double-A innings.
Cool names…Skye Bolt for an athlete and Ashton Goudeau for a European fashion designer!
Well so much for the Giants shying away from controversial players.
maybe i’m uneducated about this but how is he controversial?
Because he’s not afraid to voice his opinions.
Ballsy. Stupid, but ballsy.
Pepperidge Farm remembers a time when no one would give a darn about Skye Bolt’s (mostly likely poorly thought out) opinions…
Lose a coonrod add a bolt, guess it is a break even
Wow, the vaunted duo of Belt and Bolt! It’s gonna be amazing.
Great name.
Don’t be shocked if Skye Bolt gets a thunderous ovation.
His parents have a sense of humor.
Nah. Now “Dead” would have shown a sense of humor…..
Or maybe “Nut N. Bolt”.
Maybe his teammates call him “Thunder”.
They’d be afraid of the clap.
Or, cruelty.
I wonder which guy will turn out to be more successful. This looks like a minor league depth signing, but you never know what Zaidi might uncover with the roster shuffle.
They got tired of waiting for Goudeau … to develop into a MLB-quality pitcher.
If they got tired of Goudeau, it happened fast….. in what, 3 weeks?
It’s an excellent play on words.
I see what you did there.
But what is their endgame?
I wonder if they’ll be able to slip Goudeau through waivers and be able to stash him in Sacramento. He seems like a guy they’d like to have at AAA.
I think Ashton Goudeau needs a catcher who can call a good game. He’s got good control but it can be hit able too.
The PC babies over at McCovey Chronicles aren’t going to like this signing at all.
tedthe,
What do infants with personal computers have to do with this thought provoking discussion? Be a lamb and please stay on topic.
Bolt seems like too good of a player to have been waived.
Giants struck gold with Yaz. Maybe Bolt follows suit? The A’s value heady players who know how to get on base and play the game right. Must be something about Bolt they deemed expendable, and I doubt it’s his political views. Which, by the way, were spot on.
Yeah, he can’t hit MLB pitching – but then again, no one on the team can this season.
What he said was not wrong, it’s just on the wrong side of the issue. That said I don’t know this guy can play at a major league level regardless of the politics, but the idea that you have to have 3 or 4 mvp’s or rings to have an opinion is not what this country was founded on, time to get past sky bolts tweets and let him prove his skill with out judging based on his political views.