{"id":395106,"date":"2022-12-08T15:47:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T20:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=395106"},"modified":"2022-12-08T15:48:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T20:48:22","slug":"dodgers-sign-veteran-heyward-to-minor-league-contract","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/dodgers-sign-veteran-heyward-to-minor-league-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers sign veteran Heyward to minor league contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Dodgers signed Jason Heyward to a minor league contract with a non-roster invitation to spring training, the MLB team said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Dodgers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Dodgers<\/a> will give Gold Glove outfielder Jason Heyward a shot to make an impact on the 2023 team.<\/p>\n<p>Story\ud83d\udd17<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WSenKXVE62\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/WSenKXVE62<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KRxN2Kh6TY\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/KRxN2Kh6TY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dodger Insider (@DodgerInsider) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DodgerInsider\/status\/1600931606792806401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Last month, the 33-year-old outfielder was released by Chicago Cubs with one year and $22 million remaining on his eight-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs are responsible for the rest of his salary, save for the major league minimum of $720,000 should Heyward make the Dodgers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"l-col__main\">\n<div class=\"c-entry-content \">\n<p id=\"fHq81O\">Heyward hit just .211\/.280\/.326 over the last two seasons, with nine home runs and 20 doubles in 152 games as injuries besieged Heyward him over the period &#8211; he spent time on the injured list for his hamstring, a finger, and a concussion in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Then he missed the final three-plus months with right knee inflammation, having last played on June 24.<\/p>\n<p>Among the 298 major league hitters with at least 500 plate appearances combined in 2021-22, Heyward&#8217;s 67 wRC+ranked 286th.<\/p>\n<p id=\"8bHGBC\">In 13 major league seasons, Heyward is a .257\/.339\/.406 with 159 home runs, 269 doubles, and a 104 wRC+. Throughout his career he\u2019s been a much better hitter against right-handed pitchers, hitting .267\/.353\/.432 with a 114 wRC+, compared to .231\/.302\/.340 with a 77 wRC+ against southpaws.<\/p>\n<p id=\"rtFVOz\">Heyward \u2014 who has been a plus defender throughout his career mostly in right field but some in center as well, including five Gold Glove Awards \u2014 joins a competition for playing time in the Dodgers outfield that includes Trayce Thompson, Chris Taylor, plus rookies James Outman and Miguel Vargas to go along with right field fixture Mookie Betts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Dodgers signed Jason Heyward to a minor league contract with a non-roster invitation to spring training, the MLB team said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":395107,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17102,17101],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The outfielder is a non-roster invitee to spring training","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395106"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=395106"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=395106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}