{"id":32004,"date":"2025-07-29T14:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T14:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/32004\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T14:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T14:30:07","slug":"giants-sign-diego-cartaya-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/32004\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants Sign Diego Cartaya To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Giants have signed catcher Diego Cartaya<\/a> to a minor league contract, according to a report from Daniel Alvarez-Montes of El Extrabase<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cartaya, 23, was a consensus top-20 prospect in the game as recently as 2023. He dominated the lower levels of the minors impressively for the Dodgers during the 2022 season with a .254\/.389\/.503 slash line between the Single-A and High-A levels, and the Dodgers resisted trade inquiries from clubs regarding the young catcher. Cartaya\u2019s value began to dip as he struggled at the upper levels of the minors. He hit a lackluster .189\/.278\/.379 in 93 games at the Double-A level in 2023, and while a repeat of the level in 2024 saw him improve he posted an anemic .208\/.293\/.350 in 208 plate appearances after being promoted to Triple-A. That\u2019s a rough slash line in most offensive environments, but especially that of the Pacific Coast League.<\/p>\n

After Cartaya\u2019s rough 2024 season, the Dodgers initially kept him on their 40-man roster but designated him for assignment in early January. He was traded to the Twins less than a week later and found himself outrighted off of their 40-man in late April. Cartaya\u2019s Triple-A numbers only got worse upon his arrival in St. Paul, as he slashed just .085\/.217\/.136 in 20 games for the Twins\u2019 affiliate. He made his last appearance in the Minnesota organization in late June and was released last week.<\/p>\n

That all led Cartaya to the Giants, for whom he\u2019ll provide depth behind the plate for the time being. Gold Glover Patrick Bailey<\/a> is being backed up by Andrew Knizner<\/a> as things stand, and Cartaya will now join a number of non-roster catchers at the upper levels of San Francisco\u2019s minor league system as potential depth behind that tandem. Max Stassi<\/a>, Sam Huff<\/a>, Logan Porter<\/a> and Austin Barnes<\/a> are all already in the organization. Each of those other pieces have big league experience and may be more likely to join the MLB club in the event of an injury down the stretch.<\/p>\n

For Cartaya, who won\u2019t turn 24 until September, the goal may be as simple as looking to get his career back on track. The catcher is still plenty young enough that there\u2019s room for continued development, especially considering the fact that catchers often take a bit longer to develop than players at other positions. Cartaya was considered one of the game\u2019s best prospects just a few short years ago due to his impressive upside, and the Giants will now try their hand at unlocking that upside after the Dodgers and Twins were both unsuccessful in doing so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Giants have signed catcher Diego Cartaya to a minor league contract, according to a report from Daniel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,24600,462,82],"class_list":["post-32004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-diego-cartaya","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32004","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=32004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}