Outright Assignments: 7/31/25

Here’s the rundown of a few outright assignments that were announced during the blizzard of roster moves taking place on deadline day…

• Catcher Jacob Stallings cleared waivers, and elected free agency rather than accept an outright assignment to the Orioles’ Triple-A affiliate.  Baltimore designated Stallings for assignment earlier this week, and since he has been previously outrighted in his career, Stallings had the ability to opt for free agency this time around.  Stallings signed a minor league deal with the O’s last month when the team was dealing with a myriad of catching injuries, and he was selected to the active roster to appear in 14 games.  Now in his 10th big league season, Stallings has hit .134/.195/.168 over 129 combined plate appearances with the Orioles and Rockies in 2025.  While these struggles represent a low for Stallings, he has generally been a below-average hitter apart from an .810 OPS over 281 PA with Colorado last year.
• The Mets outrighted left-hander Jose Castillo off their 40-man roster and assigned him to Triple-A Syracuse.  It is the second time in a little over a month that Castillo was DFA’ed and then outrighted, and he chose to accept his last assignment to Syracuse rather than test free agency.  After posting an ugly 11.37 ERA in 6 1/3 innings with the Diamondbacks, Castillo was traded to New York in mid-May and has pitched well when he has been in the big leagues, with a 2.19 ERA over 12 1/3 innings and 14 relief appearances.  This is Castillo’s first real sustained stretch of decent MLB results since his 2018 rookie season with the Padres, when he had a 3.29 ERA across his first 38 1/3 frames in the Show.
• The Braves outrighted catcher Jason Delay to Triple-A Gwinnett.  Delay also has a past outright on his resume, but it isn’t yet known if he’ll accept the assignment or opt for free agency.  It wasn’t known that Delay had been designated for assignment, but the move isn’t too surprising, as the Braves are deep at catcher and Delay hadn’t seen any time on Atlanta’s active roster.  Delay has a .231/.295/.315 slash line over 373 PA in the majors, all with the Pirates from 2022-24.  The Braves acquired him from the Bucs in April to add depth when Sean Murphy was recovering from a broken rib.