{"id":30985,"date":"2025-07-29T04:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T04:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/30985\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T04:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T04:27:08","slug":"brewers-designate-eric-haase-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/30985\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers Designate Eric Haase For Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brewers announced that they\u2019ve designated catcher\u00a0Eric Haase<\/a> for assignment. That clears active and 40-man roster space for newly-acquired<\/a> backup catcher\u00a0Danny Jansen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Haase\u2019s position on the roster was clearly tenuous once the Brewers lined up the Jansen trade. The righty-hitting Haase has backed up\u00a0William Contreras<\/a> all season. He hasn\u2019t gotten much playing time. Contreras leads MLB in starts behind the dish, leaving Haase in the lineup on just 19 occasions. He\u2019s batting .229\/.289\/.357 with a pair of home runs in 77 trips to the plate.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not easy to get into any kind of offensive rhythm with such infrequent playing time. Haase has power but has always had a lot of swing-and-miss in his game. That\u2019s a common profile for a backup catcher, but the 32-year-old isn\u2019t the plus defender that teams tend to prefer from their #2 backstop. While Jansen\u2019s recent defensive grades haven\u2019t been great either, he had a stronger reputation with the glove earlier in his career than Haase has ever had.<\/p>\n

Haase is out of options, so a DFA was the only way to take him off the big league roster. Milwaukee has a couple days to try to find a trade partner. They\u2019d need to place him on waivers if there\u2019s no trade by Thursday evening\u2019s deadline. Haase is playing on a $1.35MM arbitration salary. He has enough service time to refuse an outright assignment but would forfeit what remains of that salary to do that, so he\u2019d likely accept an assignment to Triple-A if Milwaukee manages to sneak him through the waiver wire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brewers announced that they\u2019ve designated catcher\u00a0Eric Haase for assignment. That clears active and 40-man roster space for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,23985,462,82],"class_list":["post-30985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-eric-haase","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}