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Giants Claim Skye Bolt, Designate Ashton Goudeau

By Connor Byrne | April 5, 2021 at 7:06pm CDT

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.

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  1. For Love of the Game

    4 years ago

    Cool names…Skye Bolt for an athlete and Ashton Goudeau for a European fashion designer!

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  2. Mr. E Team

    4 years ago

    Well so much for the Giants shying away from controversial players.

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    • birdsfan415

      4 years ago

      maybe i’m uneducated about this but how is he controversial?

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      • sufferforsnakes

        4 years ago

        Because he’s not afraid to voice his opinions.

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        • Dotnet22

          4 years ago

          Ballsy. Stupid, but ballsy.

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        • Bart Harley Jarvis

          4 years ago

          Pepperidge Farm remembers a time when no one would give a darn about Skye Bolt’s (mostly likely poorly thought out) opinions…

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    • pustule bosey

      4 years ago

      Lose a coonrod add a bolt, guess it is a break even

      Reply
  3. Bart Harley Jarvis

    4 years ago

    Wow, the vaunted duo of Belt and Bolt! It’s gonna be amazing.

    Reply
  4. johns-11

    4 years ago

    Great name.

    Reply
  5. Captain Dunsel

    4 years ago

    Don’t be shocked if Skye Bolt gets a thunderous ovation.

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  6. BlueSkies_LA

    4 years ago

    His parents have a sense of humor.

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    • bobtillman

      4 years ago

      Nah. Now “Dead” would have shown a sense of humor…..

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      • Jean Matrac

        4 years ago

        Or maybe “Nut N. Bolt”.

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      • AHH-Rox

        4 years ago

        Maybe his teammates call him “Thunder”.

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        • bobtillman

          4 years ago

          They’d be afraid of the clap.

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      • BlueSkies_LA

        4 years ago

        Or, cruelty.

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  7. scottn59c

    4 years ago

    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.

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  8. AHH-Rox

    4 years ago

    They got tired of waiting for Goudeau … to develop into a MLB-quality pitcher.

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    • giantsphan12

      4 years ago

      If they got tired of Goudeau, it happened fast….. in what, 3 weeks?

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      • Captain Dunsel

        4 years ago

        It’s an excellent play on words.

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    • mstrchef13

      4 years ago

      I see what you did there.

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      Reply
    • Mr. E Team

      4 years ago

      But what is their endgame?

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  9. Jean Matrac

    4 years ago

    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.

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    • GarryHarris

      4 years ago

      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.

      Reply
  10. tedtheodorelogan

    4 years ago

    The PC babies over at McCovey Chronicles aren’t going to like this signing at all.

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    • Bart Harley Jarvis

      4 years ago

      tedthe,
      What do infants with personal computers have to do with this thought provoking discussion? Be a lamb and please stay on topic.

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  11. TrueBrew

    4 years ago

    Bolt seems like too good of a player to have been waived.

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  12. Backup Catcher to the Backup Catcher

    4 years ago

    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.

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    • passed_balls

      4 years ago

      Yeah, he can’t hit MLB pitching – but then again, no one on the team can this season.

      Reply
  13. Not a clever name

    4 years ago

    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.

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