{"id":104792,"date":"2025-08-29T17:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T17:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/104792\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T17:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T17:43:06","slug":"diamondbacks-release-rene-pinto-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/104792\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks Release Rene Pinto – MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The D-backs have released catcher Rene Pinto<\/a>, who\u2019d been playing with their Triple-A affiliate in Reno, per the MiLB.com transaction log<\/a>. He\u2019s a free agent and can field interest from any teams seeking to bolster their catching depth in the season\u2019s final month.<\/p>\n

Pinto, 28, hasn\u2019t played in the majors this season but saw big league time with the Rays in each of the past three seasons. He\u2019s drawn solid framing grades in the majors but has struggled to control the running game and has drawn poor marks from Statcast for his ability to block pitches in the dirt. Pinto is a career .231\/.263\/.404 hitter with 10 homers but a 36.7% strikeout rate in 237 major league plate appearances.<\/p>\n

While his big league numbers aren\u2019t much to look at, Pinto has been far better in Triple-A. He batted .268\/.324\/.517 with 11 round-trippers in 225 plate appearances with Reno this season and carries a career .256\/.307\/.493 slash with 57 homers in 1132 plate appearances at the top minor league level. Strikeouts have been an issue in Triple-A as well, however. He\u2019s fanned in 29.9% of his career plate appearances there.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s not much on the market for catching depth right now, so teams that have recently incurred injuries behind the dish could take a flier on the former Rays backstop. The Reds (Tyler Stephenson<\/a>), Mets (Francisco Alvarez<\/a>) and Nationals (Keibert Ruiz<\/a>) all have catchers on the injured list at the moment, for instance. With rosters set to expand to 28 players on Sept. 1, it\u2019s also possible that another club will look to use one of those extra spots to carry a third catcher, which could create further opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The D-backs have released catcher Rene Pinto, who\u2019d been playing with their Triple-A affiliate in Reno, per the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,75462,85],"class_list":["post-104792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-rene-pinto","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}