{"id":375120,"date":"2025-12-29T12:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T12:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/375120\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T12:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T12:48:11","slug":"orioles-designate-will-robertson-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/375120\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles Designate Will Robertson For Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Orioles announced that outfielder Will Robertson<\/a> has been designated for assignment.\u00a0 The move opens up a 40-man roster spot for Zach Eflin<\/a>, whose one-year, $10MM deal<\/a> to return to the O\u2019s is now official.<\/p>\n

Robertson has been on Baltimore\u2019s roster for less than a month, after the club claimed him off the Pirates\u2019 waiver wire a few weeks back.\u00a0 This transaction came after Robertson went from the White Sox to Pittsburgh on another waiver claim in October, and after the Sox acquired Robertson from the Blue Jays in a July deal for cash considerations.\u00a0 Prior to this flurry of moves, Robertson had spent his entire career in Toronto\u2019s organization, since his selection in the fourth round of the 2019 draft.<\/p>\n

This stint with the Jays culminated in Robertson making his MLB debut in a Toronto uniform, as Robertson got into three games with the Blue Jays in June.\u00a0 The trade to the rebuilding White Sox naturally created a bit more opportunity for playing time, and Robertson appeared in 24 more games during his time in Chicago.\u00a0 Unfortunately for Robertson, his first 75 trips to the plate against big league pitching resulted in only a .129\/.173\/.143 slash line, and one extra-base hit.<\/p>\n

Robertson (who just turned 28 two days ago) had some decent but unspectacular numbers in the minors in 2023 and 2024, but he put himself on the radar for a big league promotion with a big Triple-A performance this year.\u00a0 Over 354 combined plate appearances with the top affiliates of the Blue Jays and White Sox, Robertson hit .289\/.387\/.571 with 20 homers and 21 doubles.\u00a0 He also produced a career-best 13.6% walk rate and cut back on the strikeouts, as contact issues have been an issue for Robertson earlier in his career.<\/p>\n

While he is best suited for corner-outfield work, Robertson does have some experience in center field, adding to his value as a depth piece.\u00a0 He has two minor league options remaining, adding to his appeal for any teams interested in making another waiver claim.\u00a0 Robertson has never been outrighted off a 40-man roster, so he\u2019d have to accept an outright assignment to Baltimore\u2019s Triple-A team if he clears waivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orioles announced that outfielder Will Robertson has been designated for assignment.\u00a0 The move opens up a 40-man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82,102782],"class_list":{"0":"post-375120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-will-robertson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375120","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=375120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}