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Padres Sign Trenton Brooks To Minor League Deal

By Darragh McDonald | November 19, 2024 at 9:02pm CDT

The Padres have signed first baseman Trenton Brooks to a minor league deal, according to his transactions tracker at MLB.com. He will presumably also receive an invite to major league spring training.

Brooks, 29, has a long minor league track record showing his strong plate discipline. Over the past four years, he took 1,691 plate appearances on the farm with a 13.8% walk rate and 16.4% strikeout rate, both of those being much stronger than average. However, he only hit 55 home runs in that stretch, a fairly light tally for a first baseman. Still, that led to a combined .279/.383/.470 batting line and 119 wRC+ for that stretch.

He was finally able to parlay that into a major league debut in 2024, though he ultimately got a very limited look from the Giants. He was on the 40-man for less than a month, getting into 12 games and slashing just .120/.241/.120 in his 29 plate appearances. He was sent through waivers unclaimed and outrighted off the roster, eventually electing free agency at season’s end.

The Padres have Luis Arráez and Jake Cronenworth as first base options, but Cronenworth might be covering second base if Xander Bogaerts is going to move back to shortstop with Ha-Seong Kim now a free agent. The club doesn’t have an obvious designated hitter at the moment, so there’s room for another bat in the lineup. Arráez is also a speculative trade candidate since he’s entering his final year of club control with MLBTR contributor Matt Swartz projecting a hefty $14.6MM salary next year, a notable expense for a club with known budgetary limitations.

Brooks can provide the club with some upper level depth at the position and try to force his way back to the majors. If he manages to do so and finds more success this time, he still has a full slate of options and just a handful of service days. That means he can be cheaply retained into the future, which would be appealing for any club but perhaps more so for the Friars as they have had to scale back payroll recently.

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  1. arty! Believes Jevon Belcher Quit on the Chiefs

    8 months ago

    WORLD
    SERIES

    Reply
  2. RonDarlingShouldntBeInTheHallOfFame

    8 months ago

    Wish Mark Grace. I like it.

    Reply
    • cooperhill

      8 months ago

      Remember Grace smoking in the dugout! IF Darling is HOF, so are Dennis Martinez, Mickey Lolich, Tommy John, Mike Cuellar, Dave McNally, big sexy, etc,etc!

      Reply
  3. SFBay314

    8 months ago

    FOREVER GIANT

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  4. Informed Sportsball Discussion

    8 months ago

    ALL CAPS COMMENT SECTION

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  5. outinleftfield

    8 months ago

    The Angels have his clone at 1B in Schanuel.

    Reply
  6. SteveFinleyEnthusiast

    8 months ago

    The missing piece

    1
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  7. 9/11ths

    8 months ago

    The flood gates have opened. The early 2000s naming trends are getting in full swing in baseball; Weston, Trenton, Grayson. By the 2030s we will be onto alien names for Midwest white kids Graxton, Xenthos, Brreeng.

    Give me the meteor.

    4
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    • SFan

      8 months ago

      Blaze Alexander and Orion Kerkering are ahead of its time.

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      • 9/11ths

        8 months ago

        RIP to all the kids named “Blaze”. Doomed to either be dirt bike white trash or professional athletes.

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  8. differentbears

    8 months ago

    Hope he carved his name into a ceiling beam at Oracle Park.

    Reply
  9. DanUgglasRing

    8 months ago

    Legendary Giants 1B right next to Willie Mac we will miss you Trenton “MF” Brooks the king of San Francisco shame they couldn’t continue to afford such a contributor but when you’re big time, you’re big time.

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