Max Ramirez belted a solo home run and a three-run shot Tuesday against the Padres.
Ramirez was in the DH slot rather than his regular spot behind the plate. The former top prospect signed a minor league deal with the Royals back in December and essentially has no shot to make the Opening Day roster. A career .217/.343/.357 hitter in his 140 major league appearances, he’s been in six organizations over the past year.
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Royals signed C Max Ramirez to a minor league contract.
Ramirez was one of the better catching prospects in the game a few years ago, but he’s fallen on hard times. Kansas City is his sixth organization of 2011, which has to be close to a record. Beginning in Texas, where he was DFA’d on January 3rd, Ramirez has gone from the Red Sox to the Cubs to the to the Astros to the Giants. Ramirez has a meager .699 career OPS in the majors over 144 plate appearances, but he’s always raked in the minors, posting an .867 OPS on the farm over his career. He’s a very poor defender, so Ramirez will have to solve major league pitching to ever have a hope of sticking in the bigs.
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