{"id":542641,"date":"2026-01-28T17:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/542641\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T17:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:59:11","slug":"yankees-designate-michael-siani-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/542641\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Designate Michael Siani For Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Yankees announced Wednesday that they\u2019ve designated outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/sianimi01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michael Siani<\/a> for assignment. His spot on the 40-man roster goes to newly acquired reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/chivian01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-28_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Angel Chivilli<\/a>, who just came over <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2026\/01\/yankees-trade-angel-chivilli-rockies-t-j-rumfield.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in a trade with the Rockies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Siani, 26, was only claimed off waivers five days ago. The Yankees will now presumably hope to pass him through outright waivers and retain him as a defensive-minded depth piece in Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre, though no team has been able to get Siani through waivers yet this winter despite multiple attempts.<\/p>\n<p>Siani has bounced around the DFA circuit frequently this offseason, going from the Cardinals, to the Braves, to the Dodgers, to the Yankees since the season ended. He\u2019ll now be traded or placed on waivers within the next five days.<\/p>\n<p>An over-slot fourth-rounder with the Reds back in 2018, Siani has spent his entire playing career in the National League Central. He very briefly debuted with Cincinnati back in 2022 but made only 25 major league plate appearances with his original organization before being claimed off waivers by St. Louis in September of 2023. He was a frequently used, defensive-minded fourth outfielder with the 2024 Cardinals when he logged a career-high 334 plate appearances.<\/p>\n<p>In parts of four major league seasons, Siani owns an anemic .221\/.277\/.270 batting line (58 wRC+) but good grades for his defense and baserunning. He\u2019s played 1014 major league innings in the outfield \u2014 primarily in center but with fleeting corner appearances mixed in \u2014 and been credited with overwhelmingly positive marks from Statcast\u2019s Outs Above Average (16) and from Defensive Runs Saved (7). He\u2019s also gone 21-for-26 in stolen base attempts, giving him a success rate of nearly 81%.<\/p>\n<p>The left-handed-hitting Siani still has a minor league option remaining. He could be a pickup for any club looking to bring in a speed-and-defense option off the bench \u2014 particularly one who can freely be shuttled between Triple-A and the majors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees announced Wednesday that they\u2019ve designated outfielder Michael Siani for assignment. His spot on the 40-man roster&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,18208,4],"class_list":["post-542641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-michael-siani","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542641","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=542641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}