{"id":296311,"date":"2025-11-20T04:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T04:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296311\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T04:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T04:45:07","slug":"yankees-jonathan-ornelas-agree-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296311\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees, Jonathan Ornelas Agree To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Yankees are in agreement with infielder\u00a0Jonathan Ornelas<\/a> on a minor league contract, as first reflected on the MLB.com transaction tracker<\/a>. According to Francys Romero<\/a>, he\u2019ll get a non-roster invitation to MLB Spring Training and could opt out midway through the season if he\u2019s not on the 40-man roster.<\/p>\n

Ornelas divided this past season between the Rangers and Braves. He spent most of the year in Triple-A, where he limped to a .196\/.295\/.303 batting line in nearly 400 plate appearances. Ornelas combined for six big league appearances and has gotten into 32 MLB contests over the past three seasons. He\u2019s a .208 hitter with a .263 on-base percentage and no home runs in that limited body of work.<\/p>\n

A former third-round draft choice, Ornelas hasn\u2019t been much of a hitter in the minor leagues either. He owns a .233\/.331\/.331 slash over parts of three Triple-A seasons. The Yankees are signing him for his glove and defensive versatility. Ornelas has logged more than 3500 minor league innings at shortstop. He has ample second and third base experience and has gotten some work in center and left field.<\/p>\n

Anthony Volpe<\/a> is likely to begin the season on the injured list as he works back from shoulder surgery.\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Caballero<\/a> will enter the year as the starting shortstop barring an offseason acquisition.\u00a0Braden Shewmake<\/a>,\u00a0Jorbit Vivas<\/a> and\u00a0Oswaldo Cabrera<\/a> are their current backup infielders. Shewmake is the only natural shortstop of the group, and he\u2019s coming off a .244\/.318\/.362 showing in Triple-A. They\u2019ll probably add at least one more established depth infielder, but it\u2019s a decent landing spot for Ornelas as he tries to battle for an Opening Day job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees are in agreement with infielder\u00a0Jonathan Ornelas on a minor league contract, as first reflected on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,110547,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-296311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-jonathan-ornelas","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296311","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=296311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}