The Astros have passed utilityman Jacob Wilson through outright waivers, relays Chandler Rome of the Houston Chronicle. Houston needed to create a 40-man roster spot to activate Zack Greinke from the COVID-19 injured list, which they’re expected to do tomorrow.
Wilson joined the Astros on a waiver claim from the division rival A’s last month. He’s played in six big league games and has logged ten games with their top affiliate in Sugar Land. A longtime minor league veteran, Wilson made his big league debut with Oakland in July but has only picked up 21 plate appearances between the two stops. He’s spent the bulk of the year in Triple-A, where he’s hit .274/.365/.570 with fifteen home runs in 223 plate appearances.
Most of that production has come with the A’s highest affiliate in Las Vegas, one of the more hitter-friendly environments in affiliated ball. That’s no doubt aided Wilson’s production somewhat, but he’s generally been a quality offensive player regardless of the surroundings. The right-handed hitter has posted solid numbers throughout much of his minor league tenure, and he also hit .251/.351/.433 over 268 plate appearances with the Lotte Giants of the Korea Baseball Organization in 2019. He’s also shown some amount of defensive flexibility, logging action at each of first, second and third base and in left field this year.
Wilson has never previously been outrighted, and he doesn’t have the requisite service time to elect free agency. He’ll stick around with Sugar Land and hope to play his way back onto the big league roster before the end of the season. If the Astros don’t reselect him to the majors, the 31-year-old will qualify for minor league free agency this offseason.
‘The Astros have passed utilityman Jacob Wilson through outright waivers’
Wording reminds me of a kidney stone.
Hopefully reading it was much, much, much less painful than a kidney stone.
Hopefully I think I’d rather deal with Walter passing gas then a kidney stone
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The should bring back Osuna right?
That was a strange thing to mention, but it got me curious. I googled it a bit and found out that he is pitching in the Mexican league. Previously he had been advised to have Tommy John surgery. He elected not to have the surgery – that is probably scaring teams off. From what I I read he’s only pitched 11 innings so far in Mexico and doing fairly well.
I’ve noticed the same, and wondered why no one’s selected his contract. must speak to just how ugly the DV situation was compared to most cases.