Dodgers to Call Up Hunter Feduccia From Triple-A
The Dodgers are calling up Hunter Feduccia from Triple-A Oklahoma City, Dodgers Nation has learned. Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic was first to report the news:
The Dodgers played a man short Friday, when Freddie Freeman was a late scratch and returned to Los Angeles to be with his family. Freeman is not expected back this weekend, manager Dave Roberts told reporters in Houston.
Given the nature of Freeman’s absence — his son is battling an illness — the Dodgers could place Freeman on the restricted list to open a roster spot for Feduccia while he’s away.
Feduccia, 27, was a 12th-round draft pick by the Dodgers out of LSU in 2018. He was added to the Dodgers’ 40-man roster last November to protect him from being selected in the Rule 5 draft. He has yet to make his major league debut.
Feduccia is hitting .295, with a .420 on-base percentage and .451 slugging percentage in 64 games at Triple-A Oklahoma City this year. He’s split his time exclusively at catcher (57 games) and DH (seven games) this year.
Friday in Oklahoma City, Feduccia drew a walk to extend his career-best on-base streak to 28 games — the longest on-base streak of the season by an Oklahoma City player. During the streak that started June 6, Feduccia has 27 hits with 17 RBI, 27 walks and 12 runs scored.
Feduccia and catcher Diego Cartaya are the only players on the Dodgers 40-man roster who are not either on the team’s active 26-man roster or on the injured list.
A native of Lake Charles, Louisiana, Feduccia’s family is expected to be in attendance at Minute Maid Park for the second game of the series between the Dodgers and Astros on Saturday.
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Why? Do they need a 3d catcher? During Steve Yeager’s days they had 3d catchers Jerry Grote and Johnny Oats, both of whom could hit and did pinch hit. [I don’t think either is coming back to play.]
Is this so that other teams can scout him and he can be traded within the next few days? Dalton Rushing – are they going to trade him in the next few days? Shouldn’t he take over for Barnes someday and play enough to give Will Smith more rest?
Let’s hope they don’t trade away the next Yordan Alvarez, Josue de Paula, in the next few days.
Where would the Dodgers be if they had not made trades for Manny Ramirez, Yu Darvish, Machado, Scherzer and Trea Turner? Well, they did get short-term help which did not put them over the top. What was lost? Jordan Alvarez [for whom they got a relief pitcher not of much import] and Keibert Ruiz is about all, I think. So, except for the loss of Jordan Alvarez, maybe holding onto prospects instead of making trade deadline deals for star players has not hurt much. That practice could have been worse. Keeping some of that short-term, deadline deal talent [Machado, Scherzer, Trea Turner], might have helped.