The Giants announced that catcher Jakson Reetz went unclaimed on waivers and was sent outright to Triple-A Sacramento. San Francisco took him off the 40-man roster last week as the corresponding move to sign Andrew Knapp. Reetz has cleared waivers a few times in his career and has the right to elect free agency. He stuck with San Francisco after being outrighted in May and could do so again.
Reetz, 28, has spent the season with the Giants, playing mostly in Triple-A. The Giants have selected his contract twice but only gotten him into six big league games. His other major league experience consisted of two contests with the Nationals three years ago. Reetz has three hits (two doubles and a home run) in 17 MLB plate appearances.
A former third-round pick by Washington, Reetz has also played in the Kansas City organization. The righty-hitting catcher owns a .241/.338/.467 line in parts of four Triple-A seasons. He has taken 235 plate appearances with Sacramento, running a .254/.368/.431 slash behind a strong 12.3% walk rate.
I know that there is only a month left but maybe he should find another organization. The Giants only use him long enough to find another team’s castoff. He is depth to depth.
Apparently no other org wants him. He’s being paid the MLB minimum, $740K. If any team wanted him they would have claimed him.
Not necessarily true. They may not want him on the 40 man roster but being a free agent would give other teams more flexibility to add him outside of the 40 man roster.
I remember when the Giants traded for Ken Reitz.
Sounds like they finally waived the White Flag and threw in the towel. Now Fire Zaidi !!
I love it when armchair GMs like to post to fire _______. Like they can do better. Worse thing to thing to occur for those armchair GMs, what if their coworkers post in some random blog to fire the poster. #karma