{"id":971662,"date":"2026-07-31T16:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T16:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/971662\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T16:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T16:51:13","slug":"orioles-designate-chadwick-tromp-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/971662\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles Designate Chadwick Tromp For Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Orioles have designated catcher <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/t\/trompch01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chadwick Tromp<\/a><\/strong> for assignment, the team announced Friday. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2026\/07\/orioles-acquire-jake-rogers-from-tigers.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Newly acquired<\/a> catcher <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rogerja03.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-31_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jake Rogers<\/a><\/strong> will take his spot on Baltimore\u2019s active and 40-man roster.<\/p>\n<p>Tromp, 31, has bounced back and forth between the Braves and O\u2019s for the past few seasons, serving as a defensive-minded backup in both Baltimore and Atlanta. He\u2019s tallied 51 plate appearances between the two clubs this season and produced just a .163\/.160\/.184 batting line. He\u2019s a career .208\/.215\/.344 hitter in 229 big league plate appearances and a .242\/.315\/.395 hitter in parts of nine Triple-A seasons (spanning 1625 plate appearances).<\/p>\n<p>Tromp\u2019s free-swinging, strikeout-prone approach will always leave something to be desired at the plate. He\u2019s walked only three times in his 229 plate appearances as a major leaguer and fanned at a near-30% clip. He has a bit of pop in his bat when he does make contact, however, and he\u2019s a quality framer with average caught-stealing rates and decent marks for his ability to block balls in the dirt. Both the Baltimore and Atlanta organizations clearly feel he\u2019s a solid third or fourth catcher to have on a depth chart; they\u2019ve both acquired multiple times over the past few seasons and given him a combined 55 games in the majors.<\/p>\n<p>The Orioles can trade Tromp before Monday afternoon\u2019s deadline. Failing that, he\u2019ll be placed on outright waivers within the next five days. In the likely event that he clears waivers \u2014 he\u2019s done so five times since Opening Day 2025 \u2014 he can either accept an assignment to Triple-A Norfolk or elect free agency (as is the right of all players who\u2019ve previously cleared outright waivers at least once in their careers).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orioles have designated catcher Chadwick Tromp for assignment, the team announced Friday. Newly acquired catcher Jake Rogers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":971663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[262349,61636,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-971662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-chadwick-tromp","tag-jake-rogers","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117015628348370816","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/971663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}