The Yankees announced they had signed Matt Carpenter To keep a major league. The veteran player had secured his release from a minor league deal with Rangers a week ago. Carpenter is a customer of SSG Baseball.
New York also announced that it would opt for the left hand Mane Banuelos In the big league. The Yankees were a professional player Stefan Floreal and left JB Sears To Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre for scanning two active locations on the list last night.
Carpenter was one of the game’s top hitters for much of his tenure with the Cardinals. He had above-average offensive counts every season from 2012 through 2018, earning three All-Star picks along the way. He was awarded a Silver Slugger in 2013 and twice finished in the top ten of the NL MVP poll. Most recently, in 2018, Carpenter recorded an excellent .257/.374/.523 slash with 36 homers.
However, things have gotten much worse in recent years. By the time he was in his mid-30s, being left-handed saw a significant decline. As the 2019 season begins, Carpenter has averaged a score of just 203/.325/.346 in more than 900 panel appearances. He continued to pull strong trails at 13.3%, but that was the only positive in his offensive play. He fired up 27.9% of his board appearances, posted a below-average .143 ISO (hit average minus hits) and hit just .270 balls throughout the game.
Louis bought Carpenter at the end of last season and was limited to minor league offers over the winter. The 36-year-old has spoken openly about the need to reinvent himself in painting and chronicled some of the changes he’s made Ken Rosenthal Athlet in February. The former TCU star signed an unlisted deal with Rangers shortly after the shutdown and he’s showing some signs of reversing.
In 21 games with Triple-A Round Rock, Carpenter averaged .275/.379/.613. He hit six of the house hoops while still taking plenty of free passes. Perhaps most encouraging is that the exercise rate has been slashed below the average of 21.1%. The Texans didn’t feel they could play at the big league club, but the Yankees would give him an opportunity to continue his solid work in the minors against MLB spots.
Carpenter started exclusively at first base for Round Rock, but has a lot of experience at second and third base in the majors. He sees some time at all three Bronx locations, showing manager Aaron Boone a left-hander off the bench. The Yankees have Antonius Rizzo On first base, but right-handed Jaleber Torresand DJ Limaheu and Josh Donaldson See work in other situations.
LeMahieu hasn’t played in two days due to left wrist discomfort and a certain hitter Giancarlo Stanton He was added to the injured list last night with an ankle infection. Carpenter does not have a companion’s defensive ability Marwin Gonzales, but he can deliver more hits on the board. New York is common Rough scent In a similar role last season.
As for Banuelos, he is back in the big leagues for the first time since 2019. The 31-year-old will make his striped debut, a debut many fans expected a decade ago when the Southpaw team was counted among the Yankees. . Top Opportunities. Unfortunately, he struggled with some injury issues en route to the minor leagues, and the Yankees grabbed him before the 2015 season. Banuelos played seven games for Atlanta as a rookie and only then played in MLB again when he had 16 games with the White Sox 2019.
Between those two seasons, the Mexico international threw 77 rounds for 6.31 Era balls. He has spent two years away from affiliated football, including a stint in the Chinese professional baseball league in Taiwan. Banuelos returned to the United States over the winter as part of a minor league deal with his parent organization and made his way back to the top with a strong start at Scranton.
Across seven appearances (five starts) for the RailRiders, Bañuelos has 2.35 ERAs on 30 2/3 runs. He was about average in hit, walk and ball marks and would probably add a multi-hit arm to the bull mix that lost Chad Greenand Jonathan Loisiga and Aroldis Chapman recently injured.
The Yankees had two vacancies on their 40-man roster, so no further move was needed right now. However, Donaldson will need a 40-person venue if he is ready to return from the COVID-19 infected list. Rob Brantley, who was recently assigned a waiver, deleted the full waivers and was assigned Triple-A. The veteran has the right to refuse the waiver in favor of free choice after being disfellowshipped.
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