How often does a player suit up for a team, without most of the public knowing he signed a contract?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rarely is the answer. However, on Wednesday, the San Francisco Giants<\/a> made a sneaky move to sign a veteran catcher to a minor league deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n “The Giants have apparently re-signed catcher Eric Haase\u00a0to a minor league contract. The Warner Sports Management client is in the lineup tonight for Triple-A Sacramento,” Anthony Franco of MLB Trade Rumors <\/a>wrote yesterday.” Haase had been released from his previous minor league deal at the end of Spring Training.”\u00a0<\/p>\n MORE:\u00a0Terrance Gore’s son honors dad with perfect first pitch<\/a><\/p>\n Haase is an eight-year veteran and will now try to impress enough at Triple-A to earn a backup role behind Patrick Bailey<\/a>. The 33-year-old hit .229\/.289\/.357 with two home runs and nine RBIs in 77 trips to the plate last season with the Milwaukee Brewers<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n He made his Major League debut with the Cleveland Guardians<\/a> in 2018, spending parts of three seasons there before four years with the Detroit Tigers<\/a>. Haase’s 22 home runs in 2021<\/a> with the AL Central club are a career high.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Haase has always been a bat-first option who probably profiles best in the third catcher role he\u2019ll play now that he\u2019s back with San Francisco,” Franco added.\u00a0<\/p>\n San Francisco is currently using Daniel Susac as its backup catcher.\u00a0<\/p>\n More MLB news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How often does a player suit up for a team, without most of the public knowing he signed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2408],"tags":[5,162,4,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342],"class_list":{"0":"post-659120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-giants","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-giants","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-san-francisco","12":"tag-san-francisco-giants","13":"tag-sanfrancisco","14":"tag-sanfranciscogiants","15":"tag-sf","16":"tag-sf-giants","17":"tag-sfgiants"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116336088317941175","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659120","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=659120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}