The Twins announced Friday that they’ve reinstated outfielder Kyle Garlick from the 10-day injured list and designated infielder Tim Beckham for assignment in order to open a spot on the roster.
Beckham, 32, inked a minor league deal with the Twins over the winter and recently had his contract selected as Minnesota deals with a deluge of injuries both in the outfield and around the infield. He appeared in a dozen games with the Twins but took just 25 plate appearances and went 2-for-25 with nine strikeouts in that time.
Beckham has had a monster season in Triple-A, hitting .413/.481/.579 in 133 plate appearances, but it was never particularly realistic to expect the journeyman to sustain anything close to that level of output in the big leagues, where he’s a .247/.299/.426 hitter in 1776 plate appearances. He’ll be placed on waivers or released within the coming days now that he’s been designated for assignment.
Garlick, 30, will give the Twins a much-needed healthy outfielder and some desperately needed help against left-handed pitching. He’s hitting .257/.319/.514 in 116 plate appearances this year and has carved out a role with the Twins based on his ability to clobber southpaws. In 172 career plate appearances against lefties, the right-handed-hitting Garlick is a .266/.314/.576 hitter.
nmendoza7
Today decides if you keep your job for longer or get designated, nice
benhen77
Tim Beckham is a vampire. Garlick chased him right off the roster.
walter8706
Nice
jgoody62
I think the real news is Tim Beckham has played in 2022. I hadn’t a clue!
BuyBuyMets
If you can call what he did playing.
Playing dead perhaps?
bravesfan
Should have never been drafted where he was. Pure shock to those of us to watched him play growing up
hiflew
Thank you Captain Obvious. Now please let us know that the Titanic probably should have tried a different route.
LarsAnderson
Because of the iceberg
hiflew
Na because of the better view of the dolphins.
LarsAnderson
Oh ok
Codeeg
Tim Beckham is still playing? I guess those who say the Rays should’ve chosen Posey instead in 08 are feeling pretttty foolish.
ohyeadam
This dude crushes lefties and they’ve need especially that since Buxton’s IL
BuyBuyMets
Let’s see. Beckham career stats
Vs LHP .253 avg. .751. OPS
Vs RHP. .243.avg. .716 OPS
No significant difference.
2022 1 for 13 vs LHP
Kyle Garlick careerwise vs LHP
.266/890. Advantage Garlick. Plus he’s a outfielder by trade and not a Ss playing out of position
Crushes?
I’d say it would be more accurate to say Beckham lightly pats Lefties on the head
Bart Harley Jarvis
Someone’s dying to mention he made $7.6m. Come on, you know you’re out there!