{"id":76597,"date":"2025-07-06T08:40:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T08:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=76597"},"modified":"2025-07-06T08:41:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T08:41:01","slug":"in-search-of-infield-options-yanks-add-candelario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=76597","title":{"rendered":"In search of infield options, Yanks add Candelario"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/gcdn\/presto\/2023\/03\/27\/PDTF\/9fea0726-d947-4089-8298-923b0e21664d-SI_20230323_gav_fw7_02.jpg\" alt=\"Jeimer Candelario seeks 'special' season without Detroit Tigers\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the Washington Wizards from 2014 to 2016 and the Washington Nationals from 2016 to 2018 for The Washington Post before covering the Los Angeles Dodgers and MLB for the Los Angeles Times from 2018 to 2024.<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW YORK &#8212; The New York Yankees, digging for options to bolster their infield, have signed third baseman Jeimer Candelario to a minor league contract and assigned him to Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre, the affiliate announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Candelario, 31, was released by the Cincinnati Reds on June 23, halfway through a three-year, $45 million contract he signed before the start of last season. The decision was made after Candelario posted a .707 OPS in 2024 and batted .113 with a .410 OPS in 22 games for the Reds before going on the injured list in April with a back injury.<\/p>\n<p>The performance was poor enough for Cincinnati to cut him in a move that Reds president of baseball operations Nick Krall described as a sunk cost.<\/p>\n<p>For the Yankees, signing Candelario is a low-cost flier on a player who recorded an .807 OPS just two seasons ago as they seek to find a third baseman to move Jazz Chisholm Jr. to second base, his natural position.<\/p>\n<p>Candelario is the second veteran infielder the Yankees have signed to a minor league contract in the past three days; they agreed to terms with Nicky Lopez on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees have signed third baseman Jeimer Candelario to a minor league contract and assigned him to Triple-A Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":76599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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