An update on a trio of players who’ll remain with their prior organizations after being designated for assignment and clearing waivers…
Latest updates
- The Giants outrighted catcher Patrick Mazeika to Triple-A Sacramento, tweets Alex Pavlovic of NBC Sports Bay Area. Mazeika, who’d been DFA this week, didn’t make a big league appearance with San Francisco. Claimed off waivers from the Mets last month, he’s spent the past couple weeks on optional assignment to Sacramento. Mazeika hasn’t hit well there, but he’d posted solid numbers with New York’s top affiliate earlier in the season. Mazeika has never previously been outrighted and doesn’t have three years of MLB service, so he’ll stick in the organization for this year’s final few weeks. He’d reach minor league free agency over the offseason if he’s not added back to the 40-man roster.
Earlier
- Red Sox outfielder Jaylin Davis went unclaimed on outright waivers and was assigned to Triple-A Worcester, tweets Chris Cotillo of MassLive.com. The 28-year-old Davis has spent time with the Twins, Giants and Red Sox organizations over the past five years but has never carried his stout Triple-A production over to the big league level. Granted, none of those clubs has given him much of a look in the Majors; Davis has just 95 plate appearances in the big leagues, during which time he’s posted a tepid .207/.274/.299 batting line. Davis turned in a colossal .306/.397/.590 slash with 35 homers in 541 plate appearances between the Triple-A affiliates for Minnesota and San Francisco in 2019, but even his Triple-A output has deteriorated since that standout showing. He’s had 353 turns at the plate in Triple-A this season and hit just .211/.317/.343 with a 30.9% strikeout rate.
- Right-hander Kohei Arihara, designated for assignment by the Rangers this week, cleared outright waivers and has been assigned to Triple-A Round Rock, per the team’s transaction log at MLB.com. That’s not particularly surprising, given Arihara’s struggles and the fact that he’s still owed the balance of this season’s $2.6MM salary. It’s “only” about $286K, but given that Arihara has yielded 21 earned runs in 20 innings this season and carries a 7.57 ERA in 60 2/3 frames dating back to 2021, he was never likely to be claimed. Texas signed the now-30-year-old righty on the heels of a solid six-year run in NPB (3.74 ERA, 18% strikeout rate, 5.6% walk rate), hoping that he could provide some innings at the back of the rotation. That two-year, $6.2MM contract hasn’t panned out, however, and this is now the second time Arihara has been outrighted by the Rangers.
Just further proof that it is a long way from the minors to the major leagues. Prospects are prospects, some make it, the majority do not. This is what Chaim Bloom needs to learn. You have to spend money on established major league players and not stockpile prospects and hope that they pay dividends in the future. I do not think Bloom is cut out to handle the baseball market in Boston. Tampa Bay draws maybe 10,000 fans a game and the franchise should be moved to another more supportive city.
You do realize that every single player in the Hall of Fame was a prospect at one time right? No one is expecting a 100% prospect to big leagues ratio. Tampa Bay doesn’t “spend money on established major league players” yet were 2 wins from World Series victory just 2 years ago. — And before you twist my words, no Boston should not run itself exactly like TB. But having a strong farm system, then supplementing with Free Agents is a much much more intelligent way to go about business, over the Scorched Earth Philosophy of some GMs.
To further my point. Here is the 2021 “All MLB First Team”:
Players with the team that they broke into the majors with:
Salvator Perez
Vlad Guerrero
Austin Riley
Fernando Tatis
Juan Soto
Mike Trout
Aaron Judge
Shohei Ohtani
Walter Buehler
Corbin Burnes
Josh Hader
Ryan Hendrix
Players with secondary team:
Marcus Siemen
Bryce Harper
Mookie Betts
Marcell Ozuna
Trevor Bauer
Gerrit Cole
Robbie Ray
Max Scherzer
Its pretty obvious, to acquire the very best players, you need to develop them yourself. Not to mention, a lot cheaper.
You do realize that if the prospects that Dave Dombroski traded away, that none of them have developed into superstars. Kopeck is a relief pitcher and Moncado is struggling. Those were two of the top two traded in the Sale deal. I guarantee you that I am a lot older than you and have seen many many highly regarded prospects in the Red Sox system dating back to the 1970s flop at the major league level.
What did the Padres trade for the established player Juan Soto? Prospects.
Manuel Margot would be in RF. You do know Manuel Margot started with the Red Sox right? He is the biggest prospect DD traded away. 11.8 WAR since he left. Jalen Beeks and Michael Kopech would be in the rotation. Stephen Nogosek would be in the bullpen. Yoan Moncada would be on the bench, because he’s having a rough season.
No, thats not very good, but now let look at the opposite side of that coin. What did DD leave the Red Sox in their place. The guys DD brought/in and signed that are still with the club:
Chris Sale whos having a much rougher season than Moncada, while costing much more. Nathan Eovoldi another broken down signing, who walks at the end of the season. And the rest: Bobby Dalbec, Tanner Houck and Darwinson Hernandez. 4 years of drafting, free agent signings, international signings and THATS IT?
The prospects he traded away may have added up to only 50cents, but he left behind 2cents in its place. Signing Sale to that extension WHEN he’ was injured, was terrible. Lots of dead contracts, no new blood brought in.
2 Notes:
1) Kopech is a starter not a reliever. He has started 25 games this year.
2) You know about Margot Manuel and Jalen Beeks being shipped out, yet you NEVER remember them when listing guys casted away by DD. Why? Maybe, because he got NOTHING in return for 2 big leaguers.
then a 30 year old prospect has out hit Soto since.
Mike Piazza? The exception of course
Two years ago they were dead last. What are you talking about?
Here are some can’t miss prospects from the Red Sox going back to 1978.
Sam Bowen OF
Winn Remerswaal P
Joel Finch P
Allen Ripley P
Chico Walker 2nd baseman
Jeff Ledbetter OF
Jim Wright P
Bobby Spowl P
Chuck Rainey
Pat Dodson 1st Baseman
Jim Rochford P
Jeff Sellers P
Rob Woodward P
John Leister
Tom Mitchell P
Ed Jurak SS
Jerry King P
Brian Denman P
Frank Rodriquez SS/ P
Jim Burt P
Schoppee P
Craig Hansen P
Marte 3rd baseman
Murphy P
Farr Finvold
Jeff McNeely OF
Scott Cooper 3rd baseman
Dave Koza 1st baseman
Roger LaFrancois C
Julio Valdez Inf
These guys were highly regarded and never made it. Yeah some do but the majority do not. I will take an established player anytime over a “Prospect”.
what the hell does bloom have anything to do with this? Davis is not a propsect… hes 28yrs old, hes a minor league vet, bloom simply claimed him off waviers when the giants released him… and gave him a ML shot when he did good in the minors. Chaim Bloom has nothing to do with Davis, hes only been with the Red Sox for a few months
Exactly, Chaim know talent when he sees it. That is why we have career minor leaguer Almonte at 33 years old.
ha lmao you got me there, I agree Bloom can be a total moron, I was just talking about Davis in this case,
Gotcha
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that an actual MLB GM has very little to learn about being a GM from AL34.
I wonder what happened to Davis. His resent Triple A slash line is consistent with his MBL slash line.
Wally Pipp was an established Major League talent but lost his job to a no-name prospect.
Lou was not a no-name prospect he was by far the best hitter in minor leagues by a longshot and came up for spells for 23 and 24 before the pip era ended.
Davis and Arihara — I would not be surprised if Arihara goes back Japanese league, and Davis surely will play overseas to get some $$$ in his pocket as it looks like he is at best a AAA player
Agreed that Davis has had KBO all over his name for some time.
The Sox would have been better off with Davis in CF last night instead of Almonte
Someone gave the greenlight to give Koji Arihara $6.2m guaranteed. That someone is now deservedly unemployed – but that kind of baseball genius is what produces an 11 year playoff series win drought.