Abraham Toro isn’t leaving the Red Sox organization after all.
Toro, who saw playing time at both third base and first base while the Red Sox dealt with injuries to Alex Bregman and Triston Casas, was outrighted to Triple A Worcester, the team announced Sunday morning.
Toro had been designated for assignment Thursday with the Red Sox in need of some roster space. After clearing waivers, he accepted an outright assignment to the team’s top minor league affiliate.
Toro had the major league service time to refuse the assignment and become a free agent, but elected to remain in the organization.
In 77 games this season with the Red Sox, Toro slashed .239/.289/.371. He added seven homers and 27 RBI with the parent club.
When the Red Sox signed free agent first baseman Nathaniel Lowe last week to serve as the lefthanded-hitting half of a platoon at first base with Romy Gonzalez, it seemed that the switch-hitting Toro’s days with the team were numbered.
As it turned out, Toro survived a few more days with the major league club. But when the Red Sox summoned David Hamilton from Worcester at the start of their current series in New York, Toro was designated.
A veteran of parts of seven major league seasons in the big leagues, Toro has also played with Houston, Seattle, Oakland and Milwaukee.
He was a big contributor to the roster earlier in the season, but over the last two months before being DFA’d, he had struggled to produce, hitting below .200.
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