Aug 28, 2025, 04:58 PM ET<\/p>\n
CLEVELAND — Carlos Santana<\/a>‘s third stint with the Cleveland Guardians<\/a> has come to an end.<\/p>\n The Guardians announced Thursday that they have released the longtime first baseman, making the 39-year-old veteran available for teams looking to add a veteran bat to their lineup.<\/p>\n Santana signed a one-year deal in December and has appeared in 116 games for Cleveland this season. He hit 11 home runs with 52 RBIs, while logging a .225 batting average, .316 on-base percentage and .333 slugging percentage.<\/p>\n He has played 11 of his 16 seasons with the Guardians, including each of his first eight. He also has played for Kansas City, Philadelphia, Minnesota, Pittsburgh, Seattle and Milwaukee.<\/p>\n He won an AL Silver Slugger and was an All-Star in 2019 during his second stint in Cleveland, and he earned an AL Gold Glove in 2024 with the Twins.<\/p>\n Santana’s days have seemed numbered in the past month as he lost playing time to younger players, including Kyle Manzardo<\/a> and C.J. Kayfus<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 28, 2025, 04:58 PM ET CLEVELAND — Carlos Santana‘s third stint with the Cleveland Guardians has come…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-103012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}