The Orioles have released infielder Domingo Leyba, the team informed reporters (including Rich Dubroff of Baltimore Baseball). Leyba had been passed through waivers earlier this month and was on outright assignment to Triple-A Norfolk. He’ll now hit the open market in search of a new opportunity.
Leyba picked up 96 plate appearances split between the O’s and Diamondbacks this season. It was his second year logging some big league action, as the switch-hitter broke into the majors with the D-Backs in 2019. Between the two clubs, Leyba has picked up 126 plate appearances and hit .158/.238/.223 with one home run.
That’s obviously not particularly impressive production, but Leyba has a far more accomplished .307/.355/.542 line over 609 trips to the plate in his Triple-A career. He’s also a capable defender at second base who has the ability to play some shortstop or third base if necessary. It wouldn’t be a surprise to see Leyba latch on elsewhere via minor league deal in the coming days.
One would think that either team would,have,wanted Leyba on their major league roster to further their tank efforts.
Being the intermediary between our world and that of the nether spirits I would say yeah, Papa Leyba is a good guy to keep on your side.
I know it’s not him but it sounds like him an frankly sounds better though to say this is main guy the tigers got from the dbacks for jd Martinez! Or simply the main guy Orioles got back for manny
Leyba went from the Tigers to the Dbacks with Robbie Ray in a 3 team deal that sent Shane Greene to the Tigers from the Yanks and the Yanks got Didi Gregarious from the DBacks.
Here come the same Orioles jokes that were tired 3 years ago. How fun.
The bigger story is those jokes are still valid. Probably will be for a very long time.
But grandpa gets discounted beer, the kiddies get in for free, and get free candy
Go Orioles
Dude raked in AAA. I enjoyed watching him play. I’m always sad for guys when they do so well in AAA but can’t get it together in the bigs
We all knew this was coming. By the way, who exactly is Domingo Leyba?
Farhan will grab him and make something of him. These are the same awful Orioles who couldn’t find playing time for Mike Yaz
Mike is a great AAAA player solid 4th outfielder especially if he was still in the Orioles organization. The 4 OFs that are currently on the team are better ball players then him with better upside and are all at least 4 years younger. In addition, there are another 4 in the pipeline of the minors. Mike has always been a gamer, but as he rose to higher levels his talent never matched his success at the lower levels. AA, AAA and in the majors he has tailed off to a career .250 where at the lower levels closer to .300.
It was a win win for both Mike and the Orioles organization. Mike would never had received the due he deserved especially being the grandson of Yaz. I wish him nothing but success with the Giants. He is a great kid. Loved his story and watching him come up through the O’s organization as a kid.
I would agree on Mullins, but Santander, Stewart and Hays? Mateo? I think your comment is heavy on the upside when compared to little Yaz. His stats in a pitcher’s park over 3 seasons are at least equal to if not better than the latter 3 or 4 Bird’s OFs. I think Baltimore just missed the boat with Yazstremski. All-star? No. But certainly better than serviceable.
I think SF lost that trade as they sent Baltimore Herb. I’ll trade anything for herb
Could get signed by a team that needs AAA depth or an NPB/KBO team for the 2022 season.