Trey Mancini Ready, Willing, And Seems Able To Help Join A Playoff Race
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Trey Mancini didn’t give up when diagnosed with cancer in 2020, nor after sitting out all of 2024. The 33-year-old free agent first baseman now would like to help a team.
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SportsMoneyTrey Mancini Ready, Willing, And Seems Able To Help Join A Playoff RaceByChuck Murr, Contributor
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AuthorJul 02, 2025, 01:33pm EDTJul 02, 2025, 01:41pm EDTTrey Mancini is not one to give up
He didn’t when he was diagnosed with cancer in 2020, nor after sitting out all of 2024
The 33-year-old first baseman opted out of his minor-league contract with the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday
It would be wise for the many MLB teams needing to score runs to give him a call
Mancini turned back the clock this year with the Triple-A Reno Aces, dealing out 16 runs, 62 RBI,. 302 average and. 895 OPS in 74 games
His 62 runs and 92 hits both ranked second in the Pacific Coast League
His 156 total bases were fourth
BALTIMORE: Trey Mancini of the Baltimore Orioles celebrates after hitting a walk off single against
More the Los Angeles Angels at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on July 8, 2022. (Photo by Scott Taetsch/Getty Images)Getty Images That’s his best duction, albeit at a lower level, over an ext stretch since he missed all of 2020 battling colon cancer
Over the previous three years for the Baltimore Orioles, Mancini averaged. 274, 28 rs, 78 RBI with an. "It’s definitely been a wild ride since, and I think it's taken until this year to fully cess it and try to move past it," Mancini told Nikki Pica of Nevada Sports Net in late May. "I think in the few years ing it's always on the forefront of your mind and you know you're worried your health more than anything else and it's a scary thing to go through
It's a mental warfare so you have to figure out how to get through it. “It puts things in perspective
At the same time, I came back and wanted to do well just as much as I did before I was diagnosed with cancer
So, that never changed, and you have to learn how to deal with everything and it takes years
I didn't play last year, and I think that was huge for me just taking a step back, being away from the game
I thought I was going to retire and having an appreciation for where I was and just trying to enjoy every day
It's been really rewarding being back and being able to play and be on this team. ” MORE FOR YOU HOUSTON: Trey Mancini of the Houston Astros reacts after hitting a single against the Philadelphia
More Phillies in Game Six of the 2022 World Series at Minute Maid Park on Nov. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images)Getty Images Mancini earned the MLB Comeback Player Award in 2021 by hitting 21 rs with 78 RBI in 147 games
He had 10 rs in 92 games the next year when he was traded to the Houston Astros, in need of a first baseman for a playoff push
Mancini hit eight rs but batted only
He got a cherished World Series ring, though he was not much help, batting. 048 (1-for-21) in the post-season
He signed with the Chicago Cubs in 2023 and hit only. 234 with 4 rs, then unofficially “retired” last year
Back To Baltimore Or Elsewhere
Going back to the Orioles, where veteran first baseman Ryan Mountcastle is on the injured list and lefty hitting Ryan O’Hearn is slumping after a great first two months, is a possibility
Baltimore ranks 18th overall in scoring
Other s are in much more need of offense, however
The Kansas City Royals are dead-last in scoring
Ranking 22nd through 26th are the San Francisco Giants, San Diego Padres, Atlanta Braves, Texas Rangers and Cleveland Guardians. 20 are the Minnesota Twins
All these s are solidly in the hunt for a playoff berth
BOSTON: Trey Mancini of the Baltimore Orioles hits a three run double against the Boston Red Sox at
More Fenway Park on Sept. (Photo By Winslow Townson/Getty Images)Getty Images The Boston Red Sox, despite ranking sixth in scoring, are in the hunt, too
They may be the best bet of all, with first baseman Tristan Casas out for the season with a knee injury
Veteran journeyman Abraham Toro has been filling in
He has 39 rs over seven seasons with five teams
Mancini hit 35 in 2019 for Baltimore
Best of all, he is a. 338 career hitter at Fenway Park, where the legendary left-field wall beckons power-hitting right-handers
Mancini has 13 doubles, 5 rs and 30 RBI in 39 games at the ballpark
Other Comebacks Red Sox legend Tony Conigliaro red in his first time up in the big leagues and was destined for greatness
BOSTON: Tony Conigliaro is surrounded by Boston Red Sox teammates after being hit by a pitch by Jack
More Hamilton of the California Angels in the fourth inning at Fenway Park on Aug 18, 1967
Bettmann He missed the entire 1968 season, however, after getting hit in the eye with a pitch
It happened midway through Boston’s “Impossible Dream” season of 1967 when the 22-year-old slugger already had 104 career rs
It kept him from playing in the World Series one year after Boston has in ninth place
Conigliaro came back in 1969 and 1970 to total 56 rs and 198 RBI before double vision from the injury essentially his career at age 26
He had a heart attack at five days before his 37th birthday in 1982, and was confined to a wheelchair until dying in 1990
The Red Sox established the Tony Conigliaro Award that year
It is presented annually to honor MLB players who best “overcome an obstacle and adversity through the attributes of spirit, determination, and courage that were trademarks of Conigliaro. ” Mancini won the award in 2021
Current Boston reliever Liam Hendricks won in 2023 for battling non-Hodgins lymphoma while with the Chicago White Sox
Hendricks signed with Boston and missed all of 2024 after needing Tommy John surgery
The Orioles’ Eric Davis had colon cancer surgery during the 1997 season
He won the award that year, when he came back to hit a run in the playoffs
CHICAGO: Bo Jackson of the Chicago White Sox hits a pinch-hit run in his first at-bat of the
More 1993 season against the New York Yankees after missing all of 1992. (Photo credit should read BRIAN BAHR/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty Images Two-sport star Bo Jackson won the award in 1993 for helping the Chicago White Sox make the playoffs after missing the entire 1992 season
He had sustained a devastating hip injury in a 1991 playoff game with the NFL’s Los Angeles Raiders
He never returned to football and the injury forced him to retire from baseball at age 31 in 1994
Trey Mancini is eager to keep swinging and possibly power a ball into the 025 playoffs
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