{"id":27523,"date":"2025-05-15T00:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T00:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/27523\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T00:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T00:25:09","slug":"brewers-sign-eddie-rosario-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/27523\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers Sign Eddie Rosario To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brewers signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rosared01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-05-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Eddie Rosario<\/a> to a minor league contract and assigned him to Triple-A Nashville, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AdamMcCalvy\/status\/1922772107286507823\" rel=\"nofollow\">relays<\/a> Adam McCalvy of MLB.com. The Rimas Sports client had elected free agency after being designated for assignment by the Braves last week.<\/p>\n<p>Rosario is already on his third organization of the season. He began the year in Triple-A with the Dodgers. He hit .339 with a pair of homers in 14 games to earn a brief call-up while\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/o\/ohtansh01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-05-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shohei Ohtani<\/a> was on paternity leave. Rosario was DFA after two games because of Ohtani\u2019s return. He elected free agency rather than accept an assignment back to Triple-A.<\/p>\n<p>That led to a major league contract with Atlanta. Rosario replaced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kelenja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-05-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jarred Kelenic<\/a> as a lefty-hitting outfield bench bat for a couple weeks. He only started one game and went hitless with two strikeouts in four plate appearances. The Braves turned to speedy utility player <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/willilu01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-05-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Luke Williams<\/a> for the final bench spot and dropped Rosario on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran outfielder was a league average hitter back in 2023. He had a terrible \u201924 campaign, combining for a .175\/.215\/.316 slash over 91 games between the Nationals and Atlanta. He\u2019s a .221\/.267\/.379 hitter in more than 1100 plate appearances since his huge 2021 run that helped the Braves to a title.<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee is a bit shorthanded in the outfield.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/perkibl01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-05-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Blake Perkins<\/a> has been out all year after suffering a Spring Training shin fracture.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mitchga01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-05-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Garrett Mitchell<\/a> went down with an oblique strain a few weeks ago. With\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/y\/yelicch01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-05-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Christian Yelich<\/a> mostly limited to DH,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bauerja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-05-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jake Bauers<\/a> is working as Pat Murphy\u2019s primary left fielder. Bauers is out to an excellent start to cement himself alongside\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/chourja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-05-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jackson Chourio<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/frelisa01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-05-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sal Frelick<\/a> as regulars. They\u2019re a little more limited on the bench, where\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/colliis01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-05-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Isaac Collins<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/camerda01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-05-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daz Cameron<\/a> as working as depth outfielders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brewers signed Eddie Rosario to a minor league contract and assigned him to Triple-A Nashville, relays Adam&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,636,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-27523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-eddie-rosario","10":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114509009777468377","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}