{"id":324139,"date":"2025-12-03T03:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T03:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/324139\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T03:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T03:28:08","slug":"cubs-sign-scott-kingery-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/324139\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs Sign Scott Kingery To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cubs signed utility player\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kingesc01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-02_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Scott Kingery<\/a> to a minor league contract, the team informed reporters (including <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/maddie_m_lee\/status\/1995973530304086248\" rel=\"nofollow\">Maddie Lee of The Chicago Sun-Times<\/a>). He\u2019ll be in MLB camp as a non-roster invitee.<\/p>\n<p>Kingery returned to the majors this past season, getting into 19 games with the Angels. It marked his first MLB action in three years. His 29 MLB plate appearances were the most he logged in a season dating back to 2020. The former top Phillies prospect recored four hits with two walks and 11 strikeouts. He has a lifetime .227\/.278\/.382 batting line in nearly 1200 career plate appearances, almost all of which came in Philadelphia from 2018-19.<\/p>\n<p>Now 31, Kingery spent most of this year at Triple-A Salt Lake. He batted .228\/.284\/.402 while striking out in a quarter of his trips to the plate. It was a step back from his more impressive \u201924 season with the Phillies\u2019 top affiliate, when Kingery had a 25-25 season in the minors.<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs won\u2019t expect much offensively from the right-handed hitter. Kingery provides defensive versatility and plays anywhere on the diamond aside from first base and catcher. He\u2019s an above-average runner who\u2019ll compete for a spot on Craig Counsell\u2019s bench during Spring Training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cubs signed utility player\u00a0Scott Kingery to a minor league contract, the team informed reporters (including Maddie Lee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,49336,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-324139","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-scott-kingery","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324139","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=324139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}