The Pirates have signed first baseman Darick Corridor to a minor league deal, as revealed by Corridor on his Instagram web page earlier this week. Corridor elected minor league free company at season’s finish, after the Phillies outrighted him off their 40-man roster again in August.
A 14th-round decide for the Phillies within the 2016 draft, Corridor confirmed loads of pop throughout his time within the minors, together with a .253/.342/.458 slash line and 76 homers over 1735 plate appearances on the Triple-A stage. Huge manufacturing within the 2022 season specifically earned Corridor his first journey to the large leagues, and he continued to impress by hitting .250/.282/.522 with 9 homers in 142 PA.
Sadly, a thumb surgical procedure value him over two and a half months of the 2023 season, and Corridor hit solely .167/.196/.241 over 56 Main League PA whereas spending a lot of the 12 months at Triple-A Lehigh Valley. Corridor final appeared within the massive leagues on July 20, 2023, as he spent everything of the 2024 season within the minors. Corridor hit solely .236/.320/.387 over 488 PA for Lehigh Valley final 12 months, so he didn’t do a lot to drive the difficulty in incomes himself one other look on Philadelphia’s roster.
It additionally didn’t assist Corridor that, as a primary base-only participant at this stage of his profession, the Phillies by no means had a lot of a spot to play him. Between Rhys Hoskins, Bryce Harper, and Kyle Schwarber, the Phils had a lot of the first base and DH at-bats spoken for, leaving Corridor with out a lot of a gap except somebody was injured. (The Phillies solely known as Corridor as much as the majors in 2022 after Harper was sidelined by a fractured thumb.)
After spending his whole professional profession in Philadelphia, Corridor will now head throughout Pennsylvania to affix the Bucs, although he’ll once more discover himself decrease on the depth chart. Andrew McCutchen will proceed to garner a lot of the DH at-bats and the newly-acquired Spencer Horwitz is slated to be the Pirates’ common first baseman. Horwitz and Corridor are each left-handed hitters so that can restrict platoon alternatives, although Corridor may discover a area of interest if McCutchen is spelled in opposition to the occasional righty starter.
Corridor has performed a handful of video games as a left fielder in winter ball, however he has made just one profession minor league look within the outfield, so it doesn’t appear seemingly that the Pirates will use him anyplace past first base. Corridor is out of minor league choices, so if he did stick to the Buccos past Spring Coaching, Pittsburgh must put him by waivers once more if the membership wished to ship him to the minors.
