{"id":415898,"date":"2023-02-18T01:25:50","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T06:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=415898"},"modified":"2023-02-18T01:27:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T06:27:06","slug":"415898-2","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/415898-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Corner infielder Edwin Rios joins Cubs on one-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Cubs have signed Puerto Rican corner infielder Edwin Rios to a one-year major league contract, the MLB club announced.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cubs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Cubs<\/a> today agreed to terms with INF Edwin R\u00edos on a one-year major league contract.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Edwin_Rios30?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Edwin_Rios30<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hed0BQdaX0\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/hed0BQdaX0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cubs\/status\/1626735680234856448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The deal was worth $1 million, according to media reports.<\/p>\n<p>Drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2015 MLB June Amateur Draft, Rios made his big-league debut in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Bouncing around from the major league and minor league clubs, the Puerto Rico native has yet to play 162 games in his four-year career so far, but a lot of that is thanks to the Dodgers\u2019 stacked roster year after year.<\/p>\n<p>For his career so far, Rios has posted a .219\/.299\/.500 slash line with 20 home runs, 9 doubles, 43 RBI, and 25 walks in 112 games.<\/p>\n<p>His best season came in 2020. In 32 games the lefty-bat hit 8 home runs with 17 RBI, 6 doubles, and posted a .946 OPS. He also finished the year helping the Dodgers win the 2020 World Series.<\/p>\n<p>Signing a major league contract with the Cubs, Rios throws himself into the mix of potential first and third-base options for the major league club in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>With his power threat potential from the left side of the plate, the former 2020 World Series champion could be a nice power bat for the Cubs in the middle\/back of the lineup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Cubs have signed Puerto Rican corner infielder Edwin Rios to a one-year major league contract, the MLB club announced. The #Cubs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":415899,"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 Puerto Rican reunites with his former Dodgers teammate Cody Bellinger","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\/415898"}],"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=415898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/415898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415898"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=415898"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=415898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}