Signed to a minor league deal, Donny Sands will now help bolster the organization's positional depth at catcher.
Sands is a 28-year-old journeyman at this stage in his career and has bounced from team to team in the last couple of years. The catcher was originally drafted by theIt was with the Phillies he made his MLB debut in 2022 where he appeared in three games with four plate appearances. He has yet to record a hit at the Major League level.in a high-profile trade that also saw Philadelphia send Matt Vierling and Nick Maton in exchange for outfielder Kody Clemens and closer Gregory Soto.
In late March of this year, Sands was released by the Tigers and subsequently signed by the Giants and assigned to Triple-A. With Patrick Bailey and Tom Murphy both out with injury, Sands will provide some depth as a potential third catcher if needed. He will face competition for that role with Jackson Reetz who is also at Triple-A Sacramento.
Over the course of four seasons at the Triple-A level Sands is slashing .259/.350/.400, a respectable performance that if replicated for San Francisco's organization could once again see him called up for a short-term stint in the event of another injury.Kade Kistner is the publisher and beat writer for Sports Illustrated's Inside the Phillies. An alumnus of Tulane University, Kade graduated in 2017 with a degree in Latin American Studies and a minor in Spanish.
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