Clint Frazier

The move cleared a 40-man roster space for reliever Chris Martin, who was activated off the restricted list Friday. “We think a lot of Clint and his ability,” ...

It’s just one of those really tough decisions we have to make sometimes, which stink. “I think we still all believe that Clint Frazier has got a lot of really good baseball still and his ability," Ross added. He has minor-league options remaining but sending him to Triple-A would not have done anything for the 40-man jam. He opened the season in a platoon in center field with Suzuki taking over in right. “No," Ross said. “His ability to show what he's capable of hasn't panned out,” said Ross of Frazier, who's hitting .216/.356/.297 in 19 games.

Selected fifth overall by Cleveland in the 2013 draft, Frazier was a highly-touted prospect as he rose through the minors, eventually headlining the Yankees' ...

Unfortunately, he underwent a miserable 2021 campaign where he hit just .186/.317/.317, 82 wRC+, and didn’t play after July due to vertigo-like symptoms. All told, that adds up to a wRC+ of 95, which is 5% below league average but hardly disastrous. However, it now seems they are moving on after just a couple of months. During that pandemic-shortened season, he played 39 games and hit a tremendous .267/.394/.511 for a wRC+ of 149. The DFA of Frazier opens a spot on both the active and 40-man rosters for Martin. The Cubs announced a series of roster moves to reporters, including Sahadev Sharma of The Athletic. Lefty Wade Miley, catcher Yan Gomes and infielder Jonathan Villar have all been reinstated from the injured list, while righty Chris Martin has been reinstated from the restricted list, which he joined after being on the bereavement list beyond the seven-day minimum.

Chicago Cubs outfielder Clint Frazier ripped his former team, opening up about his experience on the New York Yankees before his return to Yankee Stadium.

However, Frazier dealt with concussion issues, and was never able to put together a full season of consistency in the big-leagues. Despite enduring a breakout Covid-shortened campaign in 2020, a bout with vertigo derailed his final season in the Bronx last year. Frazier was the No. 5 overall pick of the Cleveland Guardians in the 2013 MLB draft. While Frazier has grown his facial hair since leaving the Yankees, where beards are against the rules, it hasn’t helped his play improve. So I don’t miss being told how I had to look for the last five years.” It seems like there’s a lot of guys in here that are just accepting of everyone.

Clint Frazier, who is now a Chicago Cub, ripped his former team, the New York Yankees, ahead of this weekend's series. Ok. cool.

It was Frazier who hid a concussion issue from the Yankees in 2021. It was Frazier who tweeted cryptic lyrics that seemingly took a shot at the organization last year. Additionally, Frazier was a member of three of the most successful Yankees teams in the last 13 years — all squads that boasted evident jovial camaraderie. So of course it’d happen again in 2022 shortly after a jaded Frazier left the Yankees after what many would describe as a tumultuous, unsuccessful, and controversial tenure. Secondly, Frazier taking a shot at the clubhouse is fairly wild, because fans have gotten a glimpse of the positive team chemistry this season now that reporters are permitted to interact with the players more closely after the COVID restrictions were relaxed. In the offseason, New York non-tendered outfielder Clint Frazier, who became a free agent and signed with the Chicago Cubs.

The move comes amid the Cubs' 40-man roster crunch and a series of players returning to the active roster this weekend. Stay informed during the severe weather ...

Suzuki is on the 10-day injured list with a sprained finger but is in play to return this weekend. But the Cubs face the roster crunch and have a glut of outfielders on their depth chart in Ian Happ, Chris Morel, Seiya Suzuki, Rafael Ortega and Jason Heyward. The move comes amid the Cubs' 40-man roster crunch and a series of players returning to the active roster this weekend.

The Chicago Cubs designated outfielder Clint Frazier for assignment. He hit .216 with three doubles, no home runs, one RBI, a .356 on-base percentage and 87 ...

“Just staying with it, keep working at-bats,” Heyward said after the loss. Clearly the Cubs are not inclined to part ways with Heyward at this time. ... Him getting the opportunity to go out there and prove it is the hard part right now. Ross said it feels like a day-to-day situation, but “it’s a slow process right now.” The Cubs designated Frazier for assignment before Friday’s series opener against his former team, the New York Yankees. It was a corresponding 40-man roster move for right-hander Chris Martin to come off the restricted list. For a big-league roster that needs an overhaul to become a contender again, Frazier represented upside.

Instead of a return to The Bronx as a visiting player, Clint Frazier has been sent packing again. The Cubs designated Frazier for assignment on Friday ...

Even if the Cubs had cleared a roster spot for Martin by making a different move, it’s possible Frazier could have been optioned soon anyway, with outfielder Seiya Suzuki nearing a return from the injured list. Last year, Frazier went on the IL in July and never returned with what the Yankees initially described as vertigo and later called vision issues. A team spokesman said Frazier was still processing the news. Frazier had a minor league option remaining, but the Cubs decided to use his 40-man roster spot on Martin. He just hasn’t been able to — with the appendix and the limited at-bats, not being able to see a real spot for him right now, it was just one of those tough decisions.” “I think it’s a spot where we haven’t been able to give him real opportunities to watch him succeed right now,” Cubs manager David Ross said before opening the series at Yankee Stadium. “It’s a tough decision.

The Chicago Cubs announced a slew of roster moves on Friday, including placing right-hander Marcus Stroman on the injured list with shoulder inflammation.

Since arriving in the majors in mid-May, Morel has performed admirably, to the extent that he'll enter the weekend with a 153 OPS+. The Cubs also have Ian Happ, Rafael Ortega, and Jason Heyward on their active roster. Of course, it didn't help Frazier's case that the Cubs have shown a willingness to play rookie Christopher Morel in center field. He returned to the active roster in late May, but he had started just twice for the Cubs during the month of June.

Despite it being very clear Jason Heyward has no long term-value to the Cubs, the team chose him over Clint Frazier in a roster move Friday.

Frazier probably wouldn’t have either, but the odds of him making a difference past 2022 far exceeds Heyward’s odds. Unfortunately, the combination of an emergency appendectomy and Ross’ unfailing insistence to play Jason Heyward on a daily basis, Frazier never got a fair shake with the Cubs this year. Regardless, Ross and Jed Hoyer continue to stay loyal to the veteran five-time Gold Glover. I’m not saying he doesn’t deserve respect for what he’s done in his Cubs career. But this is what David Ross had to say of the move when asked: He totaled a whopping 45 plate appearances, batting .216/.356/.297 – good for a 95 wRC+. Meanwhile, even after his best game of the season Friday, Heyward carries a .229/.308/.323 line (81 wRC+) and has clearly lost a step in several areas of his game. If there’s one thing I should have learned in my two-plus years of home ownership, it’s that your estimate on how long it will take to complete a project is never accurate.

The Cubs have made some interesting roster moves of late. What do they all mean?

They need to find out what they have, so maybe allowing young players to face teams that may not be a good matchup could be a good learning experience and worth the risk. It was a little weird, one pitch to (Josh) Donaldson, I felt a little something back there and it remained consistent the remaining four or five pitches that at-bat. “There are going to be moments in time where you have to make a decision and sometimes the current and the future are in conflict,” Hoyer told reporters that day. But there are those who believe Thompson is a better option than Steele. That may seem off based solely on handedness as the Yankees hit righties (121 wRC+) better than lefties (112 wRC+), but it could be due to each of their primary breaking balls. But maybe this is a case where the Cubs just need to stop overthinking things. Miley leaving early puts the bullpen in a bit of a bind after it finally got rest with two off days and a rainout this week after having to work 11 games in nine days. “I just felt a little something in the back of my shoulder,” Miley said. Frazier has reportedly been a good teammate and was well-liked by the players in the clubhouse and the coaches. So when a promising player who got limited playing time and who by all accounts wasn’t an issue in the clubhouse is designated, it seems counterintuitive. It seemed to come down to Frazier and one other player currently in the minors on the 40-man. According to Ross, though, Frazier has loved his time in Chicago and there was nothing to read deeper into the move. “But I don’t know if that’s going to be a possibility or not.”

I understand that Frazier was unlikely to break back out. There's a reason he was let go by the Yankees, and a reason he was available this offseason to the ...

It doesn’t explain why the Cubs never really gave him a chance to start from the beginning of the season. But it feels like the Cubs never even gave Frazier or themselves a chance to find out if he could still be more. I am, however, very ready to say that, and the idea that the Cubs would use a 40-man spot on Heyward all season and then all offseason – when there’s such a crunch coming – is too galling for me to even let myself think about it today. Going forward, I do agree that it was going to be tough to get him regular playing time at the big league level. It doesn’t explain why the Cubs didn’t even consider optioning Frazier to Iowa to get regular starts for now. And the one time he did was tasked with starting multiple games in a row – that very brief stretch of five games from May 30 through June 3 – he hit .400/.600/.500/219 wRC+. The sample is too small to draw conclusions, obviously, but it does make you want to scream: just give the guy a chance to get into a rhythm! Frazier should’ve been playing every day, especially if the Cubs “all believe that Clint Frazier has got a lot of really good baseball still and his ability.” How exactly was Frazier supposed to “show what he’s capable of” when he was getting almost no starts? I think we still all believe that Clint Frazier has got a lot of really good baseball still and his ability. That allowed the Cubs to bring reliever Chris Martin back from the restricted list … and allowed them to retain other guys like Jason Heyward, who had consistently been starting over Frazier. Instead, my position on Frazier has always been something like this: he is just 27, he has shown huge potential in the past (and some big league success), and he can be under team control for two more seasons. I also understand that there were serious health concerns for him going forward, and I understand that the defense has always been a big question mark. I understand that Frazier was unlikely to break back out.

Once upon a time, Clint Frazier seemed to be destined for stardom. The fifth overall pick in the 2013 MLB Draft by the then-Indians, he was a consensus top ...

The A’s are not going anywhere in the standings any time soon and would be the perfect place for him to attempt to tap into the talent that made him a top prospect. Injuries and the Yankees’ strange refusal to give him a chance (or trade him for that matter) have stunted his ability to prove himself. Pinder is a free agent after this season and is likely to be in demand due to his versatility. The A’s outfield appears to be set. The Oakland A’s would be the perfect fit. He appeared in just 19 games due to appendicitis and made more headlines for trashing the Yankees than his play on the diamond.