catcher Sam Hoff According to reports from Alex Pavlovic of NBC Sports Bay Area, the exemption was exempted and directly assigned to Triple-A Sacramento. Hoff had previously been designated as homework by the club earlier this week.
Huff, 27, was the Rangers’ seventh round draft pick in 2016, and he finished the top 100 in baseball games in 2020 and 2021. He made his debut in the 2020 shortened 2020 season and looked completely sensational in the ten samples, and in that year, in his brief appeal, he slammed .355/.394/.742, the women’s club of that year. Huff’s strong start to his career combined with his prospects creates huge expectations, but he was eliminated from injury for most of the 2021 season and released as Double-A when he was in good health to perform well enough. However, he turned the situation around once he reached Triple-A, and his .260/.336/.533 diagonal is enough at the 2022 level to get him to win another shot in the Grand Slam.
During the 2022 and ’23 campaigns, the defender is usually a solid yet incredible batsman in the Grand Slams. He has played in a total of 65 games over the years, and in his 177 set appearances, he hit .244/.299/.409 with 98 WRC+. This is only 2% lower than the league average and slightly better than the average catcher slash line. Even so, Hoff was never a particularly powerful defender behind the plate, so as a Bat-first receiver, he was the only league average Jonah Heim. Even so, he continued to roam on Triple-A and showed enough offensive talent, and the club continued to bring hope for the final breakthrough.
In 2024, things got worse as Huff was hardly found to be used in the Grand Slam (only four out of three games) and stopped hitting even at the Triple-A level. After years of shooting from the organization’s Round Rock members, Huff cut only .246/.310/.416 in 111 matches last year. It’s not a slash in the vacuum, but it’s easy to see that Triple-A’s 82 WRC+ won’t cut it when Huff is in a factor in Triple-A’s then 26-year-old and an offensive environment. With the Huff selection entering 2025, the Rangers abandoned their long-term prospects and assigned him to take on missions.
This brought him to the Giants, who made his backing for the season Patrick Bailey. Ultimately, Huff played 20 games against San Francisco, but hit .208/.259/.340 in WRC+68 with 58 sets. While he has been easy to swing and miss, Hoff’s 43.1% strikeout rate in the Giants uniform is shocking. Given the modest performance, the Giants decided to head to Bailey in the other direction, which was not shocking. That being said, the club clearly still sees Hoff as a potential deep choice behind the plate. He will be back for Triple-A for the time being, a non-warehouse in-depth work by the Giants, and if he goes through the end of the season without adding it back to the 40-man roster, he will be able to elect minor league free agents and enter the open market for the first time in his career.
