{"id":473608,"date":"2025-12-12T08:27:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T08:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/473608\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T08:27:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T08:27:16","slug":"brewers-sign-akil-baddoo-to-major-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/473608\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers Sign Akil Baddoo To Major League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brewers added some outfield depth Thursday, announcing the signing of Akil Baddoo<\/a> to a one-year, major league contract. Milwaukee already had an open 40-man spot. Their roster is now full following the addition of Baddoo, a client of Apex Baseball.<\/p>\n

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Baddoo, 27, was the No. 74 overall pick in the 2016 draft by the Twins. He never appeared in a big league game with Minnesota but landed in Detroit by way of the 2020 Rule 5 Draft. Baddoo showed plenty of promise in that rookie season, hitting .259\/.330\/.436 with 13 homers and 18 steals in only 461 plate appearances. The Tigers looked to have a steal on their hands, as the lefty-swinging Baddoo at least looked the part of a platoon corner outfielder with some speed, modest power and plate discipline.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, he\u2019s never returned to that same level of production. Baddoo has been an up-and-down member of the roster in four seasons since that time, hitting a combined .201\/.288\/.323 in 682 plate appearances \u2014 primarily against right-handed pitching. He runs well and draws strong grades for his defensive acumen in left field, but Baddoo has well below-average marks in batted-ball metrics like average exit velocity (87.5 mph), barrel rate (5.9%) and hard-hit rate (34.6%) over the past four seasons.<\/p>\n

Baddoo has one minor league option year remaining, so he doesn\u2019t necessarily need to break camp with the Brewers. If he doesn\u2019t make the Opening Day club, they can send him to Triple-A Nashville without needing to pass him through waivers. He\u2019ll jump into a competition for reps in an outfield that\u2019ll feature Jackson Chourio<\/a> in right field and Sal Frelick<\/a> in center.<\/p>\n

Isaac Collins<\/a> was the Brewers\u2019 leader in left field innings last season, though he can play all over the diamond. Jake Bauers<\/a> is also in the mix, but he has ample experience at first base and could always see time at designated hitter on days that Christian Yelich<\/a> is in left or is out of the lineup. (Yelich played only 19 games in left field last year and was otherwise a DH.) Blake Perkins<\/a>, too, will see time on the grass but is more of a fourth outfielder\/backup center fielder than an everyday option. Former first-round pick Garrett Mitchell<\/a> missed most of the 2025 season due to injury and will need to hit his way back into consideration for a more prominent role.<\/p>\n

If Baddoo ends up playing a meaningful role of any sort on the 2026 Brewers, he could be a relatively long-term addition. He currently has just 3.021 years of major league service time, meaning he can be controlled via arbitration for at least three more seasons (including 2026). Depending how much time he spends on the big league roster, that window of control could extend an extra season. Baddoo would need 151 days of MLB service this year to reach four years. Of course, that\u2019s putting the cart before the horse; he\u2019ll need to play his way onto the roster and then show some staying power before that\u2019s a real consideration, but it\u2019s a nice theoretical bonus \u2014 particularly for a club with a reputation for maximizing the performance of its low-cost acquisitions.<\/p>\n

Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic first reported<\/a> that the Brewers were signing Baddoo to a major league contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brewers added some outfield depth Thursday, announcing the signing of Akil Baddoo to a one-year, major league…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10912,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-473608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-akil-baddoo","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115705652429312308","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473608","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=473608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}