1:30 PM: The Orioles also took back the right-handed player Conner Green Exemption from leaving the Dodgers, Tweet Dan Connolly of the track team. Earlier this month, Team O lost him to the Dodgers with an abstention, but now they have taken him back after the Dodgers assigned him to the task.
12:38 noon: According to Roch Kubatko of MASNsports.com, the Orioles will announce a number of lineup changes today (Twitter link).Baltimore will appoint third baseman Mike Franco Allocate and select infielders Rich Martin To Triple-A Norfolk, according to Kubatko.They will recall the second baseman Jamie Jones And third baseman Kelvin Gutierrez In their place.
Franco, who will turn 29 this week, has never really gained a foothold after participating in spring training. He has been the main third baseman in Baltimore this season. He has participated in 104 games and played a total of 403 times. During that time, he only hit 0.210/.253/.355 slashes and hit 11 books. Baseball and 22 doubles.
Team O definitely hopes to have something closer to Franco’s performance in 2020, when he appeared in all 60 games for the Royals and out of 243 games with 8 home runs and 16 double strikes out of 0.278/. 321/.457. Kansas City still did not bid for Franco last winter, instead of giving him a raise in arbitration — the second time he did not bid in years — and he wandered in the free agent market to participate in spring training, and finally reached an agreement with him A one-year contract valued at 800,000 U.S. dollars. Baltimore.
In an ideal situation, the Orioles might enjoy a few months of quite productive time with Franco, and then dump him before the deadline to get whatever return they can get. Even as a substitute player in a competitive club, his minimum salary can make him an affordable supplement. Understandably, his general lack of production this season has dried up any real interest in the trade market.
The Orioles will now place Franco in a complete abstention or release abstention in the next few days. He is unlikely to be claimed, because doing so means he will receive the remaining salary, and recently when he recorded his 400th appearance this season, his salary jumped from $800,000 to $1 million. Once he gets a waiver, he can become a free agent and sign with any club, and from then to the end of the season, the league minimum will be distributed proportionally.
24-year-old Jones was acquired in an offseason deal Alex Cobb And cash to the angel. The former second-round pick was once considered one of the best rookies in the Halos system and one of the top 100 rookies in all baseball circles, but his stock price has declined in recent seasons.
After the 2021 election campaign was in full swing, Jones saw his own bat tail in Norfolk. He scored 0.311/.435/.516 points in the first 30 games with Tides, but in the 42 games since then, his batting rate is only 0.201/.257/.370. Jones shot an average of 0.349 goals in the 30 games before the start of the season. In the next 42 games, this number dropped to 0.242, but the rising strikeout rate was also the main reason for his sluggish performance. In the first 30 games In the game, Jones played 22 times (16.8%) and 20 strikeouts (15.3%), but in his past 42 games, he has played 29.2% against a drastically reduced 6.5% walking rate.
Despite recent poor performance, Jones ranks in the middle of the Orioles’ top prospects and will use the rest of 2021 as a supplement to a larger role next season.Except for the first baseman, the Orioles’ infield is largely unstable Tre Mancini, So young players should have many opportunities to gain more playing time. Jones also has some experience in the center and left. However, Team O will mainly use him as a second baseman in 2021, and the teams on the grass in the outfield have much more dirt than the infield.