The Angels announced that catcher Chris Okey has accepted an outright assignment to Triple-A Salt Lake. He cleared waivers after being designated for assignment on the weekend.
Los Angeles signed the 28-year-old backstop to a minor league deal in April. They selected his contract a few weeks later while dealing with a number of catching injuries. Chad Wallach returning from the injured list pushed Okey back to the minors a few days later. He played twice, starting one game behind the dish.
The Clemson product has made 27 starts for Salt Lake on the season. He’s hitting .276/.325/.410 with three home runs in 116 trips to the plate in the Pacific Coast League. The former Red owns a career .233/.300/.362 slash in parts of four Triple-A campaigns.
Okey has previously gone unclaimed on waivers in his career. That gave him the right to test minor league free agency this time around. He’ll pass on that opportunity and rejoin the Bees as non-roster depth. Matt Thaiss and Wallach are the only healthy catchers on the 40-man roster, so any injury could afford Okey another quick opportunity at the MLB level.
he’s not bad, just not really good. he’s just…
Surprised that the O’s didn’t sign him to a 20 minute contract. They must have had 5 back up back up catchers on the team this season.
Ok
Uh… um… okay
Rengifo starts again. He must have a secret Minasian cannot afford to have it come out.
Escobar on Restricted List.
Okey must have OKed being outrighted!
Okey dokey artichokey!!!
I’d like to take this opportunity to apologize to @theghostofkevinelster. I attacked your assessment of a Ms. Jackson joke without assessing the entirety of your statement about the jokes on MLBTR.
While your assessment of the Ms. Jackson joke was off base. I believe this is the type of thread you are referring to in your comments, and I wholeheartedly agree. I almost want this player to fail to make the jokes stop
What?
What once was a satisfactory agreement: Chris is Okey, Angels are Dokey.
What??
What???
Second base.
Okey!!!