{"id":428268,"date":"2023-03-03T15:35:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T20:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=428268"},"modified":"2023-03-03T15:35:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T20:35:20","slug":"pirates-acquire-infielder-leyba","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/pirates-acquire-infielder-leyba\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates acquire infielder Leyba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates have signed infielder Domingo Leyba to a minor league contract.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pirates Sign Domingo Leyba To Minor League Deal <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pO4zjNZnVy\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/pO4zjNZnVy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XKyBwpn3Yv\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/XKyBwpn3Yv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MLB Trade Rumors (@mlbtraderumors) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mlbtraderumors\/status\/1631724825604497423?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old is already with the club at their spring training facility.<\/p>\n<p>Leyba has appeared in parts of two big league seasons but tallied only 126 plate appearances, during which time he\u2019s posted an unsightly .152\/.238\/.223 batting line.<\/p>\n<p>The switch-hitter has spent parts of three seasons in Triple-A, where he\u2019s a career .296\/.342\/.525 hitter in 755 trips to the plate.<\/p>\n<p>Defensively, Leyba has logged substantial time at both shortstop (3615 innings) and second base (3247 innings) in his professional career.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s also spent more than 700 innings at the hot corner and made brief appearances at first base and in left field.<\/p>\n<p>Leyba was once a fairly well-regarded prospect, ranking as the No. 3 prospect in the Diamondbacks\u2019 system back in 2017, per Baseball America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates have signed infielder Domingo Leyba to a minor league contract. Pirates Sign Domingo Leyba To Minor League Deal https:\/\/t.co\/pO4zjNZnVy pic.twitter.com\/XKyBwpn3Yv [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":428271,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The 27-year-old is already with the club at their spring training facility","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\/428268"}],"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=428268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428268"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=428268"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=428268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}