First base veteran/helper Trey Mancini and Arizona Diamondbacks Consent with a small league agreement with an invitation to spring training, the sources were informed by ESPN, starting a return for the 32-year-old who sat in the 2024 season.
Mancini, who played in a part of the seven main league seasons, left 2020 after diagnosing colorectal cancer in stage 3. He returned to Baltimore Orioles in 2021 Houston Astros next season and signing a contract with Chicago Cubs in 2023
After signing the contract with Miami Marlins Last year Mancini was released at the end of spring training and did not play for the rest of the season. He continued the exercise in Nashville and will compete for a job with Diamondback, who had the best crime in baseball last year and traded Josh Naylor play the first base with the binding Christian Walker Signing a three -year agent’s free agent worth $ 60 million from Houston.
For half a decade, Mancini was a powerful right -handed presence in the middle of the Baltimore composition. In 831 career games he has 129 gears home and 400 RBI, reaching .263/.328/.448 of 110 OPS+.
Developed in the eighth round of Notre Dame in 2013, Mancini debuted in 2016, and until 2017 he was a full -time player, dividing the time between the first and left field. His best season took place in 2019, when he reached .291/.364/.535 and took sixth place in the American league with 75 additional hits (including 35 races at home) and 322 bases.
Mancini will have a lot of competition for a place in the hotel. In addition to Naylor, Arizona has a field loaded, with Corbin CarrollIN Lourdes Gurriel Jr., Jake McCarthyIN Pavin SmithIN Grichuk randalIN Alek Thomas And also non-roster invitations for Garrett Hampson and Cristian Pacha.
