The Brewers signed Eddie Rosario to a minor league contract and assigned him to Triple-A Nashville, relays Adam McCalvy of MLB.com. The Rimas Sports client had elected free agency after being designated for assignment by the Braves last week.
Rosario is already on his third organization of the season. He began the year in Triple-A with the Dodgers. He hit .339 with a pair of homers in 14 games to earn a brief call-up while Shohei Ohtani was on paternity leave. Rosario was DFA after two games because of Ohtani’s return. He elected free agency rather than accept an assignment back to Triple-A.
That led to a major league contract with Atlanta. Rosario replaced Jarred Kelenic as a lefty-hitting outfield bench bat for a couple weeks. He only started one game and went hitless with two strikeouts in four plate appearances. The Braves turned to speedy utility player Luke Williams for the final bench spot and dropped Rosario on Friday.
The veteran outfielder was a league average hitter back in 2023. He had a terrible ’24 campaign, combining for a .175/.215/.316 slash over 91 games between the Nationals and Atlanta. He’s a .221/.267/.379 hitter in more than 1100 plate appearances since his huge 2021 run that helped the Braves to a title.
Milwaukee is a bit shorthanded in the outfield. Blake Perkins has been out all year after suffering a Spring Training shin fracture. Garrett Mitchell went down with an oblique strain a few weeks ago. With Christian Yelich mostly limited to DH, Jake Bauers is working as Pat Murphy’s primary left fielder. Bauers is out to an excellent start to cement himself alongside Jackson Chourio and Sal Frelick as regulars. They’re a little more limited on the bench, where Isaac Collins and Daz Cameron as working as depth outfielders.
What has happened to Yelich again? I thought he turned a corner last season. Are Brewers fans gonna blame everything on that one Brewers hitting coach who got fired again?
He’s hitting for a low average, but he’s hitting home runs and stealing bases, which is a good sign that he’s fully (or at least mostly) healthy. I’d expect the average to climb as the season goes on – if he can stay healthy, which is always a big “if” with him.
He’s also on pace to strike out 200 times.
He’s going to need to hit more than the 28 home runs he’s on pace for to justify those k’s and terrible ba.
I’m not sure you can blame the teams offensive problems on yelich who’s is primarily a DH less than a year after major back surgery. Reasonable folks would deduct the problem is ss, 3b, LF
Can’t go a week without good ole Fast Eddie getting DFA’d or signed by someone! Guy is going to get into 60 games and play on every team this year.
Screams “desperation”…
The article states the brewers are low on bench options with Isaac Collins and Daz Cameron. Rosario is a veteran bench option who might offer more, or less
It’s screams baseball is a sport where you have to plug holes sometimes. Like Rosario did before being DFAd by Ohtanis return with the Dodgers where he clearly earned a call up via his AAA numbers.
It’s a long, long season. It’s just a minor league contract for kripes sakes.
GO MILWAUKEE, I NEED YA TO WIN THE CENTRAL PLZ
Everyteam Eddie
Dumb
Eddie’s name will forever etched into Braves postseason lore. Unfortunately, he hasn’t done much since. I hope he hits the cover off the ball against everyone except Atlanta…