The Padres agreed to a minor league contract with Moisés Gómez final month, in line with the MLB.com transaction log. The 26-year-old nook outfielder had been outrighted and launched by the Cardinals final season.
Gómez is working to get to the large leagues for the primary time. He appeared on monitor after hitting 39 homers within the minor leagues in 2022. That earned him a 40-man roster spot with St. Louis. Gómez spent all the ’23 marketing campaign on non-obligatory project to their Triple-A affiliate. He popped one other 30 homers however hit .232 with a .293 on-base proportion. That wasn’t sufficient to crack the MLB roster. St. Louis despatched him by outright waivers final February.
The righty-hitting outfielder once more opened the season on the Triple-A degree. He hit .208 and noticed his energy manufacturing evaporate, as he solely managed three longballs in 45 video games earlier than being launched. Gómez closed the season within the unbiased American Affiliation. He has mashed in winter ball in his native Venezuela this offseason. Gómez is hitting .273/.396/.613 with 15 longballs in 48 winter ball video games.
San Diego will give him a chance to rebound from his troublesome previous two seasons. Gómez has huge energy, hitting 127 homers in elements of 9 minor league seasons between the Tampa Bay and St. Louis programs. That features 49 longballs in fewer than 1000 Triple-A plate appearances, although he’s a .236/.303/.452 hitter at that degree. He has punched out in practically a 3rd of his journeys to the plate in Triple-A.
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