The Giants have acquired outfielder Dalton Guthrie from the Phillies for cash, according to announcements from both teams. San Francisco optioned him to Triple-A Sacramento. In order to create space on the 40-man roster, they transferred Mitch Haniger from the 10-day to the 60-day injured list.
Philadelphia had designated Guthrie for assignment earlier in the week, clearing a roster spot for Darick Hall to return from the injured list. That spurred the first organization change of his career. Guthrie had been with the Phils since they nabbed him in the sixth round of the 2017 draft coming out of Florida.
Guthrie first reached the majors last September. He played in 14 regular season games and made a single appearance in the Division Series during Philadelphia’s run to the NL pennant. Guthrie has gotten into 23 more games this year, starting eight times.
Between the two seasons, the right-handed hitter has a .244/.393/.333 line in his first 56 trips to the plate. He has quite a bit more Triple-A experience, tallying 607 plate appearances in parts of three seasons. Guthrie is a .296/.359/.467 hitter at the top minor league level. He can play all three outfield spots and had some infield experience earlier in his pro career.
Guthrie has never been regarded as a high-upside prospect. The 27-year-old has some positional flexibility and a solid minor league track record, though. There’s little downside for the Giants in jumping the waiver order to add him as a depth player. He’s in his first of three option years, meaning the club can keep him in Triple-A for the next few seasons if he earns a lasting 40-man roster spot.
Haniger’s injury meant the Giants were operating with a de facto opening on the 40-man. He underwent surgery to repair a fractured right ulna last week. He’ll be out into September.
Giants needed a RH hitting Outfielder and Guthrie is certainly that…
I think Slater should play every day in LF. He is a good hitter. Great pinch hitter.
Really could’ve used Guthrie in place of Schwarber today in the top of the 10th against Atlanta
Sure, but could’ve used Pache. Fact of the matter is, Phillies offense has been ice cold for 4 straight. Even without the blunder, I think Phillies lose in the 12th or 13th.
And yet they still called that a hit at first. The calling of errors as hits this year has been atrocious, and I’m sure it has something to do with meddling by MLB.
El Duderino;
The end of the shifts was supposed to raise batting averages. It’s really had little to no effect.
Broadcasters are constantly surprised by obvious errors being called hits this year. Sure there’s meddling. Like the NBA it’s becoming less about sport and more about marketing – fans that don’t understand the game, don’t watch it other than the highlights and look at public statistics for their rotisserie league teams are being catered to…..it brings in a lot of money – forget integrity. Any rule can be broken for money.
Samuel, absolutely agree about the catering. It’ll be sold as making the game as more exciting or inclusive.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m fine with the changes that took place in that effort over the off-season, but the ruling of so many errors as hits sticks in my craw. Go ahead and change the rules – at least then everyone knows what they are. The artificial miniscule inflation of hits that are errors only cheapens things.
To Von’s point, I’d wager Schwarber would own that error on the chin. He wouldn’t make excuses, but simply say he needs to catch that ball and it’s unacceptable not to.
El Duderino It really has. In no world was that a hit. 99% of baseball players make that catch easily. And it went off his glove. It’s an error all the way.
Zaidi is averaging right around 2 mlb contributors off the trash heap every year so…I guess he’s due!
DD going to keep stashing Noah Song all year on injured list and 40 man to spite Boston.
It’s insane and hilarious that people think he’s spiting Boston.
It’s the 60 DAY IL so he’s not spending a 40 man a spot on him at the moment.
DD has Song holed up in a safe house somewhere in Lancaster, PA hiding him among the good Amish folk.
How come I never know who 95% of the players from thwar articles are nowadays lol?
Because at this time of year the players tend to be 40 man bubble guys.
I guess if you’re a diehard fan of a team, you know who these minor league guys are. I don’t know how they find these things out. I’m a fan of the White Sox and I have no idea who’s in their minor leagues, probably because they don’t have anyone worth knowing about.
@avenger65
On FanGraphs you can get to the RosterResource page for every team, which will have all of the key names in every organization at every organizational level.
You can also find their Top Prospects lists for every team, and it’s easy to find each teams’ Pipeline Top 30 prospects lists from each of their official MLB pages.
Sometimes during really rough seasons, keeping tabs on decent MiLB players is all some hapless organizations have to look forward to; hope that helps! DBacks fans know a thing or two about being hapless for years lol
Yep. That’s how highly the Phillies think of Guthrie. Sigh, another wasted asset.
muzziotti, Cave & johan rojas are all better than guthrie and are on the 40 man roster