{"id":323801,"date":"2025-12-02T23:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/323801\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T23:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:56:07","slug":"scott-kingery-agrees-to-minor-league-deal-with-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/323801\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Kingery agrees to minor league deal with Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO &#8212; Infielder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/35276\/scott-kingery\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Kingery<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/chc\/chicago-cubs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Cubs<\/a> agreed to a minor league contract announced Tuesday that includes an invitation to big league camp for spring training.<\/p>\n<p>Kingery, 31, appeared in 19 games with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/laa\/los-angeles-angels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a> last season. He hit .148 (4 for 27) and scored three runs.<\/p>\n<p>Kingery had his best season with Philadelphia in 2019, batting .258 with 19 homers and 55 RBI in 126 games. He is a .227 hitter with 30 homers and 96 RBI in 344 games over six seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO &#8212; Infielder Scott Kingery and the Chicago Cubs agreed to a minor league contract announced Tuesday that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-323801","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\/323801","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=323801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}