It was a bit of a shocker when they let him go to the Bucs last year, but the season was lost and he had some money on his contract.
He was given the choice to assignment an assignment to AAA or be granted his release. Obviously, we know which choice he made.
Yes, when he's ready to retire and do the one day contract to throw out the first pitch that day.
This is the correct answer.
They had three poor hitting catchers there - Brown, Ronnie Freeman and Ryan Hanigan. I guess they decided that Brown was around longer than the others so might as well get rid of him. They needed to make room for Gregor Blanco so someone had to go.
It didn't make any sense at the time why the Giants brought Hundley in when Brown looked good as the back up. They obviously saw something we didn't and made the right call. Sometimes those moves go the way we expect and sometimes (thankfully) they go a lot better.
He was always in the Eli/Stewart mold (all catch, no bat). He put in one full season in the bigs. That is not bad for a AAA/AAAA player.
This is the second time something like this has happened this year. How are they able to place someone on waivers without removing them from the 40? I thought at this point of the season that went hand in hand?
That sounds like revocable waivers but my understanding, and COTs backs this up, that can only happen between August 1st and November 10th. Players don't need to go through waivers for a trade to happen outside that period so revocable waivers cannot be used. The only other two types of waivers are unconditional release waivers and irrevocable outright waivers. Neither allows a player to be on an active roster any longer. I wonder if Rosenthal meant the FO floated his name through the trade rumor mill and found no takers.
But they did it with Blanco as well. That’s why I don’t think it is a typo/misunderstanding. I think the rules have actually changed this year.
