Major League Baseball’s trade deadline triggered a domino effect that has sent former St. Paul’s Episcopal standout Blaine Crim to the Colorado Rockies.
Crim was not traded at the deadline, which arrived at 5 p.m. CDT Thursday. But when the Texas Rangers acquired three pitchers in deadline deals, the AL West team needed roster spots for its new players. One of those spots was created when the Rangers dropped Crim from their 40-man roster by designating him for assignment.
The Rockies were able to pick up Crim off the waiver wire. They have assigned the first baseman to their Triple-A affiliate, the Albuquerque Isotopes of the Pacific Coast League.
After 590 minor-league games, Crim made his Major League debut with Texas on May 2. The former Mobile high school standout played in five games in eight days for the Rangers before being returned to the Round Rock Express, Texas’ affiliate in the Pacific Coast League.
During his stay with the Rangers, Crim went 0-for-11 with one walk and one hit by pitch. He scored one run.
In 83 games at Round Rock this season, Crim has a .284 batting average, .373 on-base average and .515 slugging percentage. He has 18 home runs and 71 RBIs for the Express in 2025.
Colorado also sent Michael Toglia, their most regular first baseman this season, to Albuquerque with 11 home runs and a .194 batting average in the wake of the emergence of Warming Bernabel.
Since being called up from the Isotopes, Bernabel has a .438 batting average with a .906 slugging percentage and three home runs in eight games. The Rockies first baseman was named the National League Player of the Week on Monday.
Crim was an All-State selection at third base for St. Paul’s in 2015, when he hit .521 and went 12-1 as a pitcher as the Saints reached the semifinals of the AHSAA Class 5A playoffs.
In four seasons at Mississippi College, Crim compiled a .350 batting average and .585 slugging percentage and drove in 196 runs in 189 games.
The Rangers chose Crim in the 19th round of the 2019 draft.
Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on X at @AMarkG1.
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