{"id":303709,"date":"2025-11-23T15:13:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T15:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/303709\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T15:13:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T15:13:22","slug":"catcher-james-mccann-agrees-to-1-year-2-75m-with-d-backs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/303709\/","title":{"rendered":"Catcher James McCann agrees to 1-year, $2.75M with D-backs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/ari\/arizona-diamondbacks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> agreed to a one-year, $2.75 million deal with veteran catcher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32046\/james-mccann\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James McCann<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The deal includes the potential to earn up to $500,000 in bonuses, depending on time served on the team&#8217;s active roster.<\/p>\n<p>McCann, 35, signed with the D-backs in June and provided solid production, batting .260 with 5 homers and 17 RBIs. He was also good with the team&#8217;s young pitchers, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4916269\/ryne-nelson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryne Nelson<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4721302\/brandon-pfaadt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Pfaadt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/47024543\/mlb-2025-26-offseason-free-agent-class-position\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/r1578205_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>McCann will likely be the backup to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/42464\/gabriel-moreno\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gabriel Moreno<\/a>, who hit .285 with 9 homers and 40 RBIs last season. Moreno has missed sizable chunks of the past two seasons because of injuries.<\/p>\n<p>McCann would earn an extra $100,000 after 50 days on the active roster, $125,000 each after 75 and 100 days and $150,000 after 125 days.<\/p>\n<p>A 2019 All-Star with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/chw\/chicago-white-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago White Sox<\/a>, McCann will be playing his 13th season in the big leagues. He has a .242 career batting average and 97 homers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX &#8212; The Arizona Diamondbacks agreed to a one-year, $2.75 million deal with veteran catcher James McCann on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-303709","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-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303709","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=303709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}