WORCESTER — The Red Sox have signed veteran catcher Chadwick Tromp to a minor league contract.
Tromp was assigned to Triple-A Worcester. He’s here with the WooSox at Polar Park on Tuesday but not in the lineup vs. Lehigh Valley. Seby Zavala is starting behind the plate.
The 30-year-old native of Aruba has appeared in 67 major league games across parts of six seasons (2020-25) with the Giants, Braves and Orioles. He appeared in eight games for Atlanta and Baltimore this season, going 3-for-21 with one home run and one double.
He elected free agency after the Orioles outrighted him to Norfolk on July 25.
“Chadwick, I know from managing against him, very veteran catcher, very good understanding of what he wants to do,” Worcester manager Chad Tracy said Tuesday. “Has his own routines. He’s solid. And I know that there’s been times over the course of the last few months that his name’s come up where I know we were pushing to try to get him even before. So to have him in-house is great. Between him and Seby, we’re in really good shape with catching.”
The Red Sox also assigned catcher Ronaldo Hernández, who they signed to a minor league deal July 17, to Double-A Portland to make room for Tromp. He appeared in four games for Worcester.
“That was kind of his choice,” Tracy said. “Obviously we signed him 10 days ago and presented him with that option, being that it was so quick. And he is going, which helps our Double-A team a lot and it helps our depth in general. If anything happens here, I know I have a guy. There’s a guy in Double A that I absolutely trust to come back.”
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