Dodgers Outright Andre Lipcius – MLB Trade Rumors

Infielder Andre Lipcius has been outrighted by the Dodgers to Triple-A Oklahoma Metropolis, per his transactions tracker at MLB.com. That signifies he handed by waivers unclaimed after being designated for project final week. He’ll stay within the Dodgers group as non-roster depth.

Lipcius, 26 in Might, solely joined the Dodgers three weeks in the past by way of a money deal. He was drafted by the Tigers and had been of their system till getting designated for project when the membership claimed Buddy Kennedy final month, which led to the commerce to the Dodgers.

He has largely served as a hit-over-power man who can bounce round to a number of positions. Over the previous three years, he has stepped to the plate 1,487 instances within the minors, hitting simply 36 house runs however drawing walks at a 13% clip and solely putting out 17.9% of the time. His .264/.360/.419 batting line in that point interprets to a wRC+ of 110, indicating he’s been 10% higher than league common. He did that whereas taking part in the three non-shortstop infield positions and the outfield corners. He additionally made it to the majors, although solely in cup-of-coffee trend. He took 38 plate appearances over 13 video games with the Tigers final 12 months, hitting .286/.342/.400 in that point.

He was squeezed off the roster in Detroit and now in Los Angeles as properly. Most golf equipment across the league are coping with roster crunches on the finish of spring and none of them put in a declare on Lipcius. Gamers with at the least three years of service time or a earlier profession outright can reject an additional outright project in favor of free company. However Lipcius has just some weeks of service time and that is his first outright, so he received’t qualify, which means he has no alternative however to report back to Oklahoma Metropolis and attempt to work his manner again to the majors from there.