The 29-year-old Capra has played four seasons in the Majors since making his big league debut in 2022. Capra was a 20th-round pick by the Blue Jays in the 2018 draft and climbed the minor league ladder until making an eight-game cameo in Toronto during the 2022 season. He was non-tendered shortly after, and while he re-signed with Toronto on a minor league deal, he was traded to Pittsburgh in exchange for catcher. Tyler Heineman in April of the 2023 campaign. Capra has been riding the waiver wire ever since, with brief stints in the majors and longer track records at Triple-A for each of the Pirates, Brewers and White Sox organizations.
He spent the 2025 campaign with Milwaukee, Chicago, and the White Sox Triple-A affiliate in Charlotte. This season was by far Capra’s biggest shot in the Majors, as he played in 47 MLB games with 105 trips to the plate between the Brewers and White Sox, after reaching the top spot in nine games with 21 trips to the plate in his three previous years as a big leaguer. Unfortunately, Capra didn’t do much with the opportunity, as he hit just .125/.157/.177 in that time, with a 23.8% strikeout rate against a microscopic 2.9% walk rate and only three extra base hits.
It didn’t exactly make a strong impression, but Capra’s ability to handle second and third base as well as shortstop and even work in the outfield at times still makes him a solid depth player for just about any team with a minor league deal like this. While he has yet to break into the majors, his numbers at Triple-A are quite respectable, including a .286/.384/.440 slash line with Charlotte this year. That elevated his career at Triple-A to .272/.368/.389 over 257 games.
For the Red Sox, Capra is unlikely to be a major consideration for a big-league job heading into Spring Training. It seems likely that the team will add at least one infielder, regardless of whether it is a reunion Alex Bregman or the addition of a new bat Kazuma Okamoto. That new recruit will probably participate Trevor story And Marcelo Mayer as regulars on the infield, with players like Kristian Campbell, David Hamilton, Romy González, Nate Eaton, Vaughn Grissom, Nick Sogard And Tristan Gray all also in the mix for infield time among players on the club’s 40-man roster. If injuries or a 40-man roster thin out that group, Capra might enter Spring Training to compete for a spot on the bench alongside the likes of Gray, Sogard, Grissom and Eaton.
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