Tuffy

Gosewisch

They haven’t officially been re-assigned to minor league camp yet, but the duo will not head north with the club. Of the two, Jackson had a better shot to make the team as a non-roster invitee, but he hasn’t pitched well this spring.

Gosewisch, 35, is a career .190/.228/.271 hitter over parts of five seasons in the majors. He’s merely a depth addition.

It’s an organizational depth move with all the injuries to catchers in the Jays’ farm system. Gosewisch, 28, is a .232/.301/.358 career hitter in the minor leagues.

He’ll receive a spring training invite but has very little shot of cracking the Opening Day roster. Gosewisch batted just .216/.278/.345 at the Triple-A level this season.

Gosewisch hit .185/.179/.185 over eight games while providing catcher depth with Miguel Montero out. Now that Montero’s back, he’s no longer needed. He should return as the third catcher next month, though.

Gosewisch will serve as emergency catching depth for the D’Backs over the final month of the regular season.

“It’s not playable right now, but I think it’ll just be a couple of days until I’m back on the field,” Gosewisch said Saturday. “I made a lot of progress (Friday). (Friday) felt OK, (Saturday) felt really good. I think I should be running (Sunday) and hopefully doing baseball stuff soon after that.” Gosewisch is competing for the backup catcher job this spring.

He’s just getting a breather. Tuffy Gosewisch is catching.

Gosewisch had three homers and no triples in 341 career at-bats entering this one. He’s been playing quite a bit this last week, since Welington Castillo is struggling and Chris Herrmann remains on the disabled list. Herrmann, though, could be back in 7-10 days.

The light-hitting backup catcher tagged David Price with the solo shot in the fifth inning, cutting the D’Backs deficit to 8-3 at the time. This coming after he homered and tripled against the Mets on Thursday. Even with his two-hit attack, he’s still hitting just .208/.235/.438 with three homers and seven RBI on the season.