MLB rumors: Ex-Yankees, Mets, Rutgers star Todd Frazier facing end of career after latest roster move
Updated May 10, 2021;
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The Pirates called up Frazier late last month. He’s played in 13 games this season, hitting just .086 with three base hits in 35 at-bats. Frazier’s trademark power appears to be gone, with just one extra-base hit, a double, to go with four RBI.
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The 35-year-old Frazier, the Little League World Series hero from Toms River, N.J. who went on to star at Rutgers, led the Pirates with three Grapefruit League home runs this spring.
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The Braves announced Friday that they’ve designated right-hander
Nate Jones for assignment in order to open a spot on the 40-man roster for fellow righty reliever
Carl Edwards Jr., whose contract has been selected from Triple-A Gwinnett. Atlanta also optioned right-hander
Jones, 35, inked a minor league deal with the Braves over the winter and parlayed a dominant Spring Training effort into an Opening Day spot in the Atlanta ’pen. Unfortunately, the regular season didn’t bring about the same results as Jones enjoyed in Grapefruit League play. Through 10 1/3 innings this season, Jones has walked 10 batters, hit another and allowed eight hits (three homers). He’s limited the damage to six runs (four earned), but that lack of control ultimately cost him his roster spot.
Yankees keeping tabs on Chris Gittens, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre’s much-improved slugger | ‘He’s got huge power’
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Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders first baseman Chris Gittens was in Yankees spring training and batted .316 with three homers, which tied for the team lead.AP
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Take a look at Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders first baseman Chris Gittens in a baseball uniform and you know exactly what this big man is. The 6-foot-4, 250-pound Yankees farmhand is a slugger. Watch the Texan take batting practice and he passes the eye test. You will be impressed watching Gittens drive balls out to left, center, right, both power alleys. The ball jumps off his bat.
Once the Yankees departed from Tampa, heading up to the Bronx for the regular season, Wells continued to get his work in. The team s senior director of player development Kevin Reese kept a close eye on the backstop, explaining this week that he s continued to turn heads on and off the field. Both the pitchers that threw to him and the coaches that worked with him were very impressed. Super mature guy, both physically and mentally, Reese said in a Zoom call with reporters on Monday. He performed well for us, he continued to turn heads in minor-league camp. [Starting him in Low-A] is just kind of a little bit of you got to do your time.
2021 BYB Detroit Tigers prospects #10: Franklin Perez is now a salvage job
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As the centerpiece of the 2017 Justin Verlander deal, the inability of right-hander Franklin Perez to stay on the mound, let alone develop into the pitcher that was hoped, is at the center of their flawed rebuilding effort. He remains a strange enigma. Perez has never had surgery, and yet he’s been unable to stay on the mound for almost four years now.
Perez was apparently healthy and able to get some work in at the alternate training site in 2020, and he pitched in spring training this year as well, marking the longest period of apparent arm health since the Tigers acquired him. However, as the returns from his brief look at Grapefruit League action made clear, this remains a project with little chance of panning out.