{"id":114162,"date":"2025-09-02T22:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T22:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/114162\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T22:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T22:11:07","slug":"nationals-sign-alfaro-after-he-opts-out-of-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/114162\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals sign Alfaro after he opts out of minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/wsh\/washington-nationals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Nationals<\/a> agreed to a one-year contract with catcher Jorge Alfaro on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Nationals also optioned catcher C.J. Stubbs to Triple-A Rochester, and catcher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4228448\/drew-millas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drew Millas<\/a> (broken finger) was moved to the 60-day injured list.<\/p>\n<p>Alfaro, 32, played in 82 games with Triple-A Nashville &#8212; Milwaukee&#8217;s top minor league affiliate &#8212; this season. He batted .244 with 15 homers and 49 RBI. He threw out 24 base stealers, tied for fourth in Triple-A.<\/p>\n<p>He became available when he opted out of his minor league contract Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Alfaro hasn&#8217;t appeared in the big leagues since 2023 when he played 18 games for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/col\/colorado-rockies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Rockies<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/bos\/boston-red-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Red Sox<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON &#8212; The Washington Nationals agreed to a one-year contract with catcher Jorge Alfaro on Tuesday. The Nationals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-114162","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\/114162","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=114162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}