according to his transaction log<\/a> on MLB.com. Tromp spent time in the Baltimore Orioles and Atlanta Braves organizations last season as well.<\/p>\nTromp has appeared in six big league seasons, but has never played more than 25 games in a year. He has spent most of his career in the minor leagues, being used as an injury replacement or depth piece. The 30-year-old backstop played in eight games at the big league level last year.<\/p>\n
He had three hits on the year, playing games for both the Braves and the Orioles. The Red Sox signed him to a minor league contract on July 26, after he elected free agency from the Orioles. The move came not long after Yasmani Grandal was placed on the restricted list.<\/p>\n
In 28 games for Triple-A Worcester, he slashed .135\/.183\/.167 with eight RBIs. He did not have a great year, hitting just .190 overall in the minor leagues.<\/p>\n
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Last season, the Red Sox had to call on Blake Sabol when Connor Wong was injured. Having a player like Tromp in the minor leagues, with big league experience, could have been great for the Red Sox in case they deal with injuries again.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Tromp will likely try to find a minor league deal with a new team that allows him to serve as immediate catching depth. He has a total of 172 at-bats in the big leagues with six career home runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Red Sox have some big decisions to make in free agency, but building strength in the minor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,13458,4,89,2543],"class_list":{"0":"post-425703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-red-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-red-sox","11":"tag-bostonredsox","12":"tag-chadwick-tromp","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-red-sox","15":"tag-redsox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115527962163614572","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425703","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=425703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}