{"id":899467,"date":"2026-10-30T03:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T03:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/899467\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T03:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T03:34:11","slug":"phillies-designate-garrett-stubbs-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/899467\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies Designate Garrett Stubbs For Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Phillies informed catcher\u00a0Garrett Stubbs<\/a> that he\u2019s being designated for assignment, reports Scott Lauber of The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a>. They\u2019ll have five days to trade him or place him on waivers once they officially announce the DFA.<\/p>\n

The move ends Stubbs\u2019 five-year tenure with the organization. Philadelphia acquired the lefty-hitting backstop from the Astros in a minor trade over the 2021-22 offseason. Stubbs operated as the backup catcher behind\u00a0J.T. Realmuto<\/a> for the next three seasons. He\u2019s fallen to third on the catching depth chart in the last two years, as\u00a0Rafael March\u00e1n<\/a> has held the reserve role.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia ran the out-of-options Stubbs through waivers at the end of Spring Training. That came after they unsuccessfully tried to find a taker on the trade front. He came back up in mid-April when Realmuto landed on the injured list. Philadelphia operated with three catchers once Realmuto returned, using Stubbs as the last player off the bench. He missed a week and a half in July to left wrist inflammation but otherwise held a spot on the active roster for the final five months of the season.<\/p>\n

Stubbs only made it into 35 games. He started 17 times behind the plate and once in left field, otherwise coming off the bench. The USC product batted .153 without a home run in 65 plate appearances. He finishes his Philly tenure with a .212\/.292\/.300 slash in 181 contests. The likely outcome is that Stubbs will clear outright waivers and opt for minor league free agency.<\/p>\n

March\u00e1n is also out of options and hasn\u2019t shown the ability to hit major league pitching yet. Realmuto led all catchers with 122 starts and trailed only\u00a0William Contreras<\/a> with 1058 2\/3 innings behind the dish. That\u2019s not ideal for a 35-year-old, and he slogged through a career-worst season. The trio of Realmuto, March\u00e1n and Stubbs combined to hit .183\/.254\/.285 this year \u2014 easily the worst production for any catching group in the majors.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia has no choice but to ride things out with Realmuto, who is signed for another two years at $15MM annually. They should look to upgrade over March\u00e1n in a depth role, however. President of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski said at his end-of-season press conference that the goal was to reduce Realmuto\u2019s workload<\/a>. That\u2019d be much more comfortable if they had a reliable 1b option.\u00a0Carson Kelly<\/a>,\u00a0Tyler Stephenson<\/a>, James McCann<\/a>\u00a0or Gary S\u00e1nchez<\/a> could play that role in free agency. Freddy Fermin<\/a>,\u00a0Luis Campusano<\/a>,\u00a0Jimmy Crooks<\/a>, or\u00a0Danny Jansen<\/a> are potential trade targets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phillies informed catcher\u00a0Garrett Stubbs that he\u2019s being designated for assignment, reports Scott Lauber of The Philadelphia Inquirer.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[158697,363,99],"class_list":["post-899467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-garrett-stubbs","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}