{"id":429634,"date":"2026-01-24T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T06:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/429634\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T06:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T06:00:07","slug":"athletics-chad-wallach-agree-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/429634\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics, Chad Wallach Agree To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Athletics are in agreement with veteran catcher\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wallach01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-23_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chad Wallach<\/a> on a minor league contract, according to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.milb.com\/player\/chad-wallach-595453\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MiLB.com transaction log<\/a>. He\u2019ll presumably get a non-roster invite to Spring Training and open the season at Triple-A Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Wallach, 34, has spent most of the past four years in the Angels\u2019 organization. He has been the third or fourth catcher on the depth chart. The Halos called him up last September while they were navigating injuries to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/darnatr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-23_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Travis d\u2019Arnaud<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/o\/ohopplo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-23_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Logan O\u2019Hoppe<\/a>. Wallach played in one game and caught two innings in a loss in Seattle. The Angels outrighted him off the roster when O\u2019Hoppe returned.<\/p>\n<p>That is Wallach\u2019s only MLB experience since 2023. He has played in parts of eight big league seasons but only garnered semi-regular playing time three years back, when he got into 65 games and tallied 172 plate appearances for the Angels. He\u2019s a .198\/.263\/.328 hitter in 443 trips to the dish. Wallach is coming off a .248\/.319\/.430 showing in Triple-A last year, splitting that time between the Halos and Rangers systems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/langesh01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-23_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shea Langeliers<\/a> will play the majority of games behind the dish as long as he\u2019s healthy.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wynnsau01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-23_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Austin Wynns<\/a> will back him up. They\u2019re the only two catchers on the 40-man roster. Wallach is their most experienced non-roster option, joining\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/servebr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-23_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brian Serven<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/lavasbr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-23_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bryan Lavastida<\/a> as organizational depth players who have MLB experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Athletics are in agreement with veteran catcher\u00a0Chad Wallach on a minor league contract, according to the MiLB.com&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,179031,462,82],"class_list":["post-429634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chad-wallach","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429634","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=429634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}