The Pirates have sent catcher Jose Godoy outright to Triple-A Indianapolis, per his MLB transactions page. Godoy was designated for assignment last week. The 27-year-old can now become a minor league free agent.
Godoy has made a handful of appearances in the majors over the past two seasons for the Mariners, Twins and Pirates, but struggled to hit much. In a combined 62 plate appearances between 2021-22, Godoy tallied just seven hits while striking out 23 times. This year at Triple-A, he hit .227/.290/.364 with six home runs across 53 games for the Twins’ and Pirates’ affiliates.
Originally signed as an amateur free agent by the Cardinals in 2011, Godoy labored through the minors for eight seasons before being released in 2020. The Mariners picked him shortly after and he cracked their MLB roster early in the 2021 season and has bounced round the majors since. While he’s not hit in his brief stint in the big leagues, there should still be a market for him to latch on to a team as minor league catching depth in 2023.
We were waiting for that.
I have.
He needs 13 days to get a pension
How much service time for a pension ??
I think five full seasons for a pension
I guess that the Pirates weren’t Waiting for Godoy… *slaps self*
I was going to go with the same joke ..but thought 1) no one would get it 2) just a bit of a stretch. But big thumbs up I like the way you think
See above.
Credit to you, you must have posted while I was writing because I didn’t see it before.
No problem. It got me thinking–on Quantum Leap why didn’t Sam Beckett leap into Samuel Beckett? I’ll just have to wait for it……
Godoy, mate.
After the next slew of minor league catchers fail, Nutting will approve signing another dumpster dive never has been to replace the losers they signed at the major league minimum
Hey, he spent 4 days on San Francisco’s books this year — Forever Giant!
Elected free agency now.