We’ll start the week by tracking some minor moves throughout the league…
- The Rays released middle infielder Tyler Ladendorf from their Triple-A club over the weekend, and he quickly re-signed with the High Point Rockers of the independent Atlantic League, per an announcement from the Rockers. The 31-year-old, who would’ve been a free agent at season’s end anyhow, asked the organization for an early release, tweets Greer Smith of the High Point Enterprise. Ladendorf spent much of the season playing for the Rockers and performed well (.268/.350/.450), but he inked a minor league pact with the Tampa Bay organization in late July. He appeared in only nine games with Triple-A Durham, going 2-for-27 in that brief return to affiliated ball. Ladendorf was the Twins’ second-round pick out of Howard College back in 2008 and was flipped to the A’s a year later in the trade that brought Orlando Cabrera to Minnesota. He’s a career .255/.324/.342 hitter in parts of nine Triple-A seasons, and he also appeared in 53 big league games with Oakland in 2015-16.
Atlantic League playoff run!
Good for him. In only 9 games ( i dint know his health situation) since July in Durham…… not exactly a showcase for a free agent, so he made it happen for himself.
Leave affiliate ball to play Indy ball? That’s seems bass ackwards…
AAA season over. He becomes free agent once World Series ends so seems he would rather get more at bats in Indy ball then to sit on his a** at home. Commendable.
You are not a sports guy if you can’t see this.