{"id":374653,"date":"2025-12-27T16:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T16:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/374653\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T16:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T16:05:16","slug":"reds-sign-jj-bleday-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/374653\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds Sign JJ Bleday &#8211; MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Reds have signed outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bledajj01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-27_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">JJ Bleday<\/a>, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ByRobertMurray\/status\/2004936372088701009\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">FanSided\u2019s Robert Murray<\/a>.\u00a0 Bleday hit the open market after he was designated for assignment and then non-tendered by the Athletics in November.\u00a0 Bleday is represented by Excel Sports Management.<\/p>\n<p>Selected fourth overall by the Marlins in the 2019 draft, it looked like Bleday had broken out in 2024, when he hit .243\/.324\/.437 with 20 homers over 642 plate appearances during the Athletics\u2019 final season in Oakland.\u00a0 This 120 wRC+ at the plate was enough to power Bleday to 3.2 fWAR during the season, despite some very rough (-19 Defensive Runs Saved, -3 Outs Above Average) reviews of his defensive performance in center field.<\/p>\n<p>One would\u2019ve expected that, if anything, Bleday\u2019s bat would\u2019ve become even more potent as the A\u2019s moved to Sutter Health Park, yet he instead struggled through a brutal 2025 campaign.\u00a0 Bleday delivered only a 90 wRC+ from a .212\/.294\/.404 slash line and 14 homers over 344 PA, and he played in just 98 big league games as he was twice demoted to Triple-A.\u00a0 Bleday\u2019s barrel numbers and strikeout rate both dropped off considerably from 2024, falling to below-average marks.\u00a0 The A\u2019s moved Bleday out of center field, but his glovework was still passable at best as a corner outfielder.<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Reds have signed outfielder JJ Bleday, according to FanSided\u2019s Robert Murray.\u00a0 Bleday hit the open market after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,202323,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-374653","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-j-j-bleday","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374653","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=374653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}