{"id":395729,"date":"2023-01-20T00:05:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T05:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=395729"},"modified":"2023-01-20T06:30:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T11:30:49","slug":"infielder-la-stella-joins-mariners-on-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/infielder-la-stella-joins-mariners-on-one-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Infielder La Stella joins Mariners on one-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Mariners signed on Thursday infielder Tommy La Stella to a one-year contract, adding another versatile veteran to their roster.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Another new member of the squad \ud83d\ude4c <\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve signed INF Tommy La Stella to a one-year Major League contract through the 2023 season. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SeaUsRise?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SeaUsRise<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd17 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NLZc77qQiA\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/NLZc77qQiA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wVaDnmwD2o\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/wVaDnmwD2o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Seattle Mariners (@Mariners) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mariners\/status\/1616216679289344000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tommy\u2019s makeup, instincts and experience in winning environments will benefit our team as we look to make the next step.&#8221; Mariners President of baseball operations Jerry Dipoto said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We value his versatility and strike zone management skills, as well as what I believe to be a high baseball IQ.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Left-handed pitcher Justus Sheffield was designated for assignment to clear a spot for La Stella&#8217;s addition on the team&#8217;s 40-man roster.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old La Stella spent the past two seasons with San Francisco but was designated for assignment by the Giants in late December.<\/p>\n<p>He signed a three-year, $18.75 million deal before the 2021 season but played in just 136 games and hit .245 over his two seasons with the Giants.<\/p>\n<p>La Stella has primarily played second and third base and likely will be in a rotation at those positions for Seattle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Mariners signed on Thursday infielder Tommy La Stella to a one-year contract, adding another versatile veteran to their roster. Another new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":395730,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17225],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The versatile veteran, who has played nine big league seasons for five teams, spent the past two years with San Francisco","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\/395729"}],"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=395729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395729"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=395729"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=395729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}