{"id":433288,"date":"2025-11-15T05:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T05:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/433288\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T05:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T05:05:10","slug":"braves-chadwick-tromp-agree-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/433288\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves, Chadwick Tromp Agree To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Braves and catcher\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/t\/trompch01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chadwick Tromp<\/a> agreed to a minor league contract earlier this week, according to the MiLB.com <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=chad+tromp+mlb.com&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">transaction tracker<\/a>. The BSE Agency client will probably get a non-roster invite to Spring Training and open the season at Triple-A Gwinnett.<\/p>\n<p>Tromp qualified for minor league free agency last week after finishing the year in the Red Sox\u2019s farm system. The Aruban-born catcher had hit just .135\/.183\/.167 in 28 games for Boston\u2019s top affiliate. That predictably did not get him an MLB look. Tromp had made eight big league appearances earlier in the season, splitting that time between Atlanta and Baltimore. He\u2019d begun the season as Atlanta\u2019s backup catcher behind eventual Rookie of the Year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/baldwdr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Drake Baldwin<\/a>, as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=murphse01,murphy013sea,murphy010sea,murphy011sea&amp;search=Sean+Murphy&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-14_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sean Murphy<\/a> was sidelined by a broken rib for the first couple weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Once Murphy returned, the Braves pushed the out-of-options Tromp off the roster. He elected free agency and signed with Baltimore on a minor league deal. Tromp didn\u2019t hit well at any level last season, and he\u2019s a career .245\/.318\/.398 batter over parts of eight Triple-A seasons. He owns a .221\/.230\/.390 line in 178 major league plate appearances spread across six years.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves aren\u2019t going to expect Tromp to provide much at the plate. They clearly like him as a defender and clubhouse presence, so he\u2019s a fine depth add. Baldwin and Murphy are the only two catchers on the 40-man roster. The latter is coming off season-ending <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/09\/braves-place-sean-murphy-on-injured-list-with-torn-labrum-in-hip.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hip surgery<\/a>. He\u2019s expected to be fully ready for Spring Training. Tromp wouldn\u2019t have a great path to the active roster if Baldwin and Murphy are healthy, though the team could opt to carry three catchers if they plan to DH one of Murphy or Baldwin on an everyday basis. Tromp is the only other catcher in the organization with MLB experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Braves and catcher\u00a0Chadwick Tromp agreed to a minor league contract earlier this week, according to the MiLB.com&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4166,5,192,13458,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-433288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-atlantabraves","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-braves","13":"tag-chadwick-tromp","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115551975759280557","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433288","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=433288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}