Cincinnati Reds claim OF Bubba Thompson from Kansas City Royals #4

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Brendans · 2025-01-13T01:33:53-06:00

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2025-01-13 01:33:53 -06:00

The heading over listings the Kansas City Royals as the group from whom the Cincinnati Reds claimed outfielder Bubba Thompson off waivers. The picture above, though, is of Thompson in a Texas Rangers uniform, and the rear of his baseball card will certainly include only Rangers statistics at the major league degree, , the first round choice of the Rangers back in 2017, had played a little bit part function for Texas over the last 2 periods before being claimed off waivers by the Royals in August. He never made a big league look for KC, however https://www.rangersgameday.com/collections/nolan-ryan-jersey
, rather ending up the season with AAA the information of the day unravels, it looks significantly likely he'll never ever make a big organization appearance with the Royals. That's mostly because he's not on the Royals roster anymore, as the Cincinnati Reds introduced they would certainly asserted Thompson on Thursday #Reds today claimed OF Bubba Thompson off waivers from the Kansas City Royals.-- Cincinnati Reds October 26, 2023Thompson, now 25, bats righty and can play protection all throughout the outfield. He's a respected base stealer, as well - he swiped 49 in simply 80 ready AAA Round Rock back in 2022 before his call-up to the Rangers, where he quickly swiped 18 more in 55 big league video games. He's simply a. 268/.329/.436 hitter throughout 1861 minor organization , nevertheless, which's been up to simply.242/.286/.305 in 241 major league , to it's an admittedly tiny example size, he's not made out better against southpaws than righties at the big league level, either. That said, during the 2021 minor organization period - the in 2014 in which he invested a whole period at one degree AA) of one franchise business TEX) - he did smash lefties to the tune of a. 938 OPS versus simply a. 723 OPS against righties. I just bring this up thinking about the Reds ideal OF placement offensively features lefties Jake Fraley https://www.rangersgameday.com/collections/nathan-eovaldi-jersey
, TJ Friedl, and Will Benson, and all of us understand exactly how much supervisor David Bell salivates at platooning around to take full advantage of is likely absolutely nothing greater than a depth piece, one the Reds may really attempt to go through waivers once again in the coming weeks of the offseason to maintain around without eating up a 40-man roster area. That said, he's obtained the ability to be optioned to the minors once again in 2024, and you can do a lot even worse talent-wise than taking a flier on a former highly-touted possibility as a deepness item with benefit.

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The heading over listings the Kansas City Royals as the group from whom the Cincinnati Reds claimed outfielder Bubba Thompson off waivers. The picture above, though, is of Thompson in a Texas Rangers uniform, and the rear of his baseball card will certainly include only Rangers statistics at the major league degree, , the first round choice of the Rangers back in 2017, had played a little bit part function for Texas over the last 2 periods before being claimed off waivers by the Royals in August. He never made a big league look for KC, however https://www.rangersgameday.com/collections/nolan-ryan-jersey , rather ending up the season with AAA the information of the day unravels, it looks significantly likely he'll never ever make a big organization appearance with the Royals. That's mostly because he's not on the Royals roster anymore, as the Cincinnati Reds introduced they would certainly asserted Thompson on Thursday #Reds today claimed OF Bubba Thompson off waivers from the Kansas City Royals.-- Cincinnati Reds October 26, 2023Thompson, now 25, bats righty and can play protection all throughout the outfield. He's a respected base stealer, as well - he swiped 49 in simply 80 ready AAA Round Rock back in 2022 before his call-up to the Rangers, where he quickly swiped 18 more in 55 big league video games. He's simply a. 268/.329/.436 hitter throughout 1861 minor organization , nevertheless, which's been up to simply.242/.286/.305 in 241 major league , to it's an admittedly tiny example size, he's not made out better against southpaws than righties at the big league level, either. That said, during the 2021 minor organization period - the in 2014 in which he invested a whole period at one degree AA) of one franchise business TEX) - he did smash lefties to the tune of a. 938 OPS versus simply a. 723 OPS against righties. I just bring this up thinking about the Reds ideal OF placement offensively features lefties Jake Fraley https://www.rangersgameday.com/collections/nathan-eovaldi-jersey , TJ Friedl, and Will Benson, and all of us understand exactly how much supervisor David Bell salivates at platooning around to take full advantage of is likely absolutely nothing greater than a depth piece, one the Reds may really attempt to go through waivers once again in the coming weeks of the offseason to maintain around without eating up a 40-man roster area. That said, he's obtained the ability to be optioned to the minors once again in 2024, and you can do a lot even worse talent-wise than taking a flier on a former highly-touted possibility as a deepness item with benefit. https://www.rangersgameday.com/collections/jake-burger-jersey https://www.rangersgameday.com/collections/evan-carter-jersey

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