{"id":412029,"date":"2023-02-09T23:57:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T04:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=412029"},"modified":"2023-02-09T23:57:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T04:57:49","slug":"cuban-outfielder-martin-agrees-minor-league-deal-with-mariners","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/cuban-outfielder-martin-agrees-minor-league-deal-with-mariners\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban outfielder Martin agrees minor League deal with Mariners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Mariners agreed a minor league contract with Cuban outfielder Leonys Mart\u00edn, who spent parts of the 2016-17 seasons in the Pacific Northwest.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m coming home \ud83d\ude4c\ud83c\udffd <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NDwrsWa1PC\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/NDwrsWa1PC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Leonys Martin (@leonys27martin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/leonys27martin\/status\/1623834947952820224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The former campaign was one of the best of his career, as he stole 24 bases while hitting .247\/.306\/.378 across 143 games.<\/p>\n<p>Mart\u00edn had previously spent three years as the primary center fielder for the Texas Rangers, where his glove represented his best asset.<\/p>\n<p>He hasn\u2019t played in the big leagues since struggling to a .199\/.276\/.343 showing in 65 games for the 2019 Indians.<\/p>\n<p>The outfileder went to Japan midway through that season, signing on with the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mariners, Leonys Martin Agree To Minor League Deal <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MCPKZEHDwk\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/MCPKZEHDwk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5gOJasv4tb\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/5gOJasv4tb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MLB Trade Rumors (@mlbtraderumors) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mlbtraderumors\/status\/1623891873445052416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Cuban has spent the last three and a half years there, combining for a .220\/.350\/.461 line with 75 homers, an excellent 13.7% walk percentage but a lofty 25.3% strikeout rate over 1441 plate appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Mariners agreed a minor league contract with Cuban outfielder Leonys Mart\u00edn, who spent parts of the 2016-17 seasons in the Pacific [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":412030,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17225,17405],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"He starts second stint in the Pacific Northwest","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\/412029"}],"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=412029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412029"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=412029"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=412029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}