Michael Lorenzen: Aiming for two-way designation [Video]

Lorenzen‘s agent, Ryan Hamill, is marketing his client as a two-way player this offseason, with the goal of gaining a two-way roster designation, Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic reports.

The only major league player to qualify for two-way status since it was introduced in 2020 is Shohei Ohtani. A player with the designation does not count against a team’s 13-pitcher limit on their 26-man roster, effectively allowing them to serve as a 14th pitcher. Lorenzen’s plan is to sign with a club — likely a non-contender — and then accrue 20-plus innings as a pitcher and play 20-plus games as a position player or designated hitter (with at least three plate appearances in each game), which would meet the necessary criteria for two-way status. Gaining the two-way designation would, in theory, make Lorenzen an attractive trade target for a contending club …