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Brooks

The 30-year-old Brooks has seen a little major league action the last two years, batting .136/.208/.212 in 72 plate appearances for the Giants and Padres. He’s a career .279/.382/.472 hitter in 468 Triple-A games. Brooks is slated to be the lone foreign position player on Kiwoom’s roster after the team employed Yasiel Puig and Stone Garrett at times last season.

Brooks heads to the open market after getting into a career-high 25 games this season for the Padres. The versatile 30-year-old should be able to latch on somewhere this offseason as organizational depth.

Brooks went unclaimed on waivers after being removed from San Diego’s 40-man roster at last week’s trade deadline. The 30-year-old has the option to elect free agency, but figures to stick around as extra organizational depth through the end of the regular season.

The Padres needed to make a flurry of roster moves to accommodate all of their trade deadline acquisitions, which meant that Brooks became an unfortunate roster casualty. The 30-year-old hit just .146/.186/.268 with a homer, two RBI and a 13/2 K/BB ratio over 43 plate appearances with the Padres this season. It’s possible he could pique another team’s interest on waivers.

Brooks heads to San Diego to give the Padres some additional bench depth with center fielder Jackson Merrill landing on the concussion injured list ahead of Sunday’s series finale against the Diamondbacks.

Brosseau and Brooks were in camp this spring as non-roster invitees fighting for bench roles. They’ll head to Triple-A El Paso as extra organizational depth to open the year.

Brooks had a good season in Triple-A, hitting .302 with 10 home runs and 10 steals in 94 games; however, he went just 3-for-25 in his first taste of MLB action. He figures to spend most of 2025 at Triple-A as well.

Brooks was DFA’d last week after going 3-for-25 in his first major league stint. It’s his first outright assignment, so he’ll go back to being a key cog in the River Cats’ lineup.

The 28-year-old Brooks went 3-for-25 with one RBI in his four weeks with the Giants. He’ll probably clear waivers, but maybe someone will take a flier, since he has been really good in Triple-A the last two years.

Hit a grand slam, you start the next day. That rule applies to Wilmer Flores, so Brooks, who already sat against lefties the last two days, will not get to return to the lineup against a righty tonight. Flores gets the nod even though he’s hitting just .217/.309/.253 against righties this season. Brooks is 1-for-9 with two walks since his callup last week.