Here are the day’s minor moves:
- The Orioles released outfielder Henry Urrutia, per a club announcement. The 30-year-old had been removed from the 40-man roster last year after seeing minimal major league action in 2013 and 2015. Urrutia, who the O’s signed out of Cuba, had struggled to a sub-.500 OPS in seventy plate appearances this season at Triple-A. Through parts of five seasons and over 1,000 plate appearances at the highest level of the minors, he owns a .277/.327/.374 batting line with 13 long balls.
- Outfielder Jeremy Barfield is heading to the Red Sox after his contract was purchased from the indy ball Sugar Land Skeeters, per an announcement from Boston’s Double-A affiliate. Barfield, 28, has spent quite a bit of time in the upper minors with the Athletics and Rockies organizations but has never cracked the major leagues. He was performing well again for the Skeeters early this season, leaving him with a composite .299/.379/.539 batting line in 878 trips to the dish in Atlantic League action since leaving the affiliated ranks in 2015.
Congrats to Jeremy, best of luck to him
O’s signed Urrutia for a very reasonable $787k back in 2012. He never quite panned out. I think he will clear waivers so the O’s can keep him in the minors.
You might want to re-read it again, dude…
Exactly
This is the time when you say bye Felica
Sorry for Urrutia. I always liked his bat, even though it lacked power. Reminded me a lot of Rod Carew.
Yeah, if Rod Carew sucked. I had hopes that Urrutia could pull it together a few years ago, but there wasn’t anything that was major league ready about him besides his arm.
He wasn’t the one with the arm. that was Dariel Alvarez. Urrutia was the one who could only hit opposite field singles.
Barfield converted back to hitting again I see – good for him, hope he gets a shot!