{"id":751408,"date":"2026-06-21T19:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T19:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/751408\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T19:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T19:24:13","slug":"padres-designate-nick-solak-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/751408\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres Designate Nick Solak For Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Padres announced that utilityman Nick Solak<\/a> has been designated for assignment.\u00a0 Miguel Andujar<\/a> was activated from the 10-day injured list in the corresponding move.<\/p>\n

The transactions are a clean reversal from June 13, when Andujar was (retroactively) placed on the IL with a left hamstring strain and San Diego selected Solak\u2019s contract from Triple-A El Paso.\u00a0 Andujar\u2019s strain ended up being pretty minor, and thus Solak\u2019s time in the organization could possibly be over after four Major League appearances.<\/p>\n

Solak had just one hit and one walk over 10 plate appearances, translating to a .443 OPS.\u00a0 His numbers in El Paso (.333\/.412\/.512 with nine homers over 241 PA) were far more impressive, though Solak delivered that production in the hitter-friendly environment of the Pacific Coast League.<\/p>\n

Most of Solak\u2019s time at the Triple-A level has been spent in the PCL, but pretty much no matter the affiliate, Solak has raked to the tune of a .298\/.385\/.471 slash line over 2309 career Triple-A plate appearances.\u00a0 This steady production has kept him bouncing around to different teams, though without many looks in the Show.\u00a0 Since the start of the 2023 season, Solak has played in only 10 total MLB games.<\/p>\n

Because Solak has been outrighted in the past, he has the ability to reject an outright assignment and choose free agency if he clears waivers.\u00a0 Solak will likely be facing a cycle of DFAs and outrights wherever he goes since he is out of minor league options, so assuming that he does clear waivers, he might prefer to stay put in San Diego\u2019s organization and wait for another spot to open up on the Padres\u2019 roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Padres announced that utilityman Nick Solak has been designated for assignment.\u00a0 Miguel Andujar was activated from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,33144,591,360618,85],"class_list":["post-751408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-miguel-andujar","tag-mlb","tag-nick-solak","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751408","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=751408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}