The Reds continue to trim their roster as they reassigned two players to the minor league camp on Wednesday. Catchers P.J. Higgins and Austin Wynns were reassigned, which means 34 players remain on the big league roster.
The Reds announced Monday that they’ve signed catcher/infielder P.J. Higgins to a minor league contract. The Bledsoe Agency client will receive an invitation to big league camp in spring training.
The Diamondbacks are signing catcher/corner infielder P.J. Higgins to a minor league contract, reports Jon Heyman of the New York Post (Twitter link). He’ll be in big league camp as a non-roster Spring Training invitee.
The Chicago Cubs have lost another catcher as they prepare for 2023. After letting Willson Contreras go during the start of the offseason, another catcher from the team joins the free agent market.
The offseason has been nothing short of busy for the Chicago Cubs. From big-fish additions such as Dansby Swanson, to solid depth moves such as Tucker Barnhart, the Cubs are filling in holes.
A pair of players recently designated for assignment by the Cubs have gone unclaimed on waivers. The team informed reporters (including Meghan Montemurro of the Chicago Tribune) that first baseman Alfonso Rivas and catcher P.J.
... and other Friday roster news P.J. Higgins was designated for assignment when the Cubs announced the signing of Tucker Barnhart last week. Today, Higgins cleared waivers, so he’ll remain in the organization, assigned to the Triple-A Iowa roster.
Hosmer, 33, had the good fortune of having the best season of his career just as he entered free agency. He hit .318/.385/.498 in 2017, his last season with the Royals, leading to a wRC+ of 135 that indicates he was 35% better than the league average hitter. He was worth 3.8 wins above replacement that year in the eyes of FanGraphs, with that mark and his wRC+ from that season still standing out as his career best.
With questions looming over what the Chicago Cubs would do with backup catcher P.J. Higgins next season, and who would they remove from the 40-man roster to make room for newly acquired Tucker Barnhart, Cubs fans finally have their answer.
The team’s new catcher was added to the 40-man roster. Recently, the Cubs’ signing of catcher Tucker Barnhart was reported on various social media, so I wrote that up here a week ago today.
A nice surprise for the Chicago Cubs in 2022 came in the form of 29-year-old PJ Higgins. The catcher briefly got a run with the Major League club in 2021 after working his way through the Cubs minor league system starting in 2015, but struggled and was shut down for the season with a forearm strain less than a month after he arrived.
It looked like the Chicago Cubs had some life in the seventh inning. PJ Higgins and Yan Gomes lead off the inning with back-to-back singles to put runners on the corners, finally the Cubs had a runner in scoring position for the first time since the third inning.
With just five or so weeks left and first base still wide open for the Chicago Cubs heading into 2023, P.J. Higgins has done more than enough to be penciled into the lineup card on a daily basis.
P.J. Higgins hit a go-ahead RBI double in the ninth inning as the visiting Chicago Cubs bested the Milwaukee Brewers 2-1 on Wednesday afternoon, winning for the second time in the just-completed three-game series.
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