The Yankees introduced that infielder/outfielder Pablo Reyes has been designated for task. That opens an energetic roster spot for designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton to be reinstated from the 60-day injured checklist, a transfer that was reported earlier right this moment. The membership’s 40-man roster rely stays at 39.
Reyes, 31, signed a minor league cope with the Yanks within the offseason and made the Opening Day roster. He has since served in a reserve position, usually as a late-game alternative. He has appeared in 25 video games with 34 plate appearances, hitting simply .194/.242/.226 in these.
That’s not an ideal efficiency but it surely’s a small pattern and it’s powerful to keep up high quality outcomes with such sporadic motion. Him getting the DFA remedy right this moment is extra a couple of pretty crowded Yankee roster. Stanton taking a spot within the lineup signifies that one among Ben Rice or Paul Goldschmidt will likely be on the bench most days. One of many membership’s 4 outfielders will take up a spot as nicely. Backup catcher J.C. Escarra may even be on the pine most days.
That left Reyes and fellow infielder Oswald Peraza for the bench spot. Each are out of choices and performing poorly on the plate this 12 months however Peraza is a number of years youthful and never too far faraway from being a prime 100 prospect, so it is sensible to hold onto him within the hopes that there’s nonetheless some future worth to be extracted there.
Add all of it up and it equals Reyes heading into DFA limbo. That may final so long as every week however the waiver course of takes 48 hours, so the membership may take as much as 5 days to discover trades. Reyes handed by means of waivers in September after which settled for a minor league deal within the offseason. He hasn’t performed a lot to boost his inventory since then, so it’s doable he clears waivers but once more. If he does so, he’ll have the appropriate to elect free company as a participant with a earlier profession outright.
He now has 606 profession plate appearances within the majors with a .245/.305/.342 line and 75 wRC+. He’s able to bouncing throughout the diamond, with expertise at each place besides catcher. That features 5 innings of mop-up work on the mound.
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