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<\/p>\nBALTIMORE – Trey Mancini’s comeback bid is on.<\/p>\n
After being cut by the Miami Marlins last spring and failing to latch on with another club, the former Orioles first baseman and outfielder signed a minor league contract with the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday with an invitation to spring training, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n
Mancini, 32, last appeared in a professional game at any level in 2023, hitting .234 with four home runs and a .635 OPS in 79 games for the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n
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Since the Orioles traded him to the Houston Astros at the 2022 trade deadline in a three-team deal that netted them pitching prospects Chayce McDermott and Seth Johnson, Mancini hasn’t been able to replicate the .270\/.334\/.463 slash line he posted in six seasons with Baltimore.<\/p>\n
He’ll get a chance to stick with Arizona, however, a team that lost star first baseman Christian Walker to Houston in free agency and replaced him with the left-handed hitting Josh Naylor.<\/p>\n
Mancini presents a right-handed option for the Diamondbacks – who signed ace Corbin Burnes after his lone season in Baltimore – with some power potential if he can return to the form he showed with the Orioles earlier in his career.<\/p>\n
The 2013 eighth-round draft pick out of Notre Dame broke out with the then-rebuilding Orioles in 2017, finishing third in American League Rookie of the Year Award voting.<\/p>\n
He hit 83 home runs over his first three full seasons before being diagnosed with Stage 3 colon cancer in 2020, forcing him to miss the entire season while doing chemotherapy treatments.<\/p>\n
Mancini made a triumphant return to the field in 2021; he launched 21 home runs and finished runner-up to the New York Mets’ Pete Alonso in that summer’s Home Run Derby.<\/p>\n
He was off to another solid start the following year before being traded to the Astros in what proved to be the final year before the Orioles would return to contention.<\/p>\n
Though he struggled offensively in Houston, Mancini made his mark on the club’s World Series run with a key defensive stop in Game 5 of the Fall Classic that robbed a game-tying hit from the Philadelphia Phillies’ Kyle Schwarber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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