{"id":379833,"date":"2025-12-30T06:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T06:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/379833\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T06:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T06:29:07","slug":"marlins-acquire-outfielder-esteury-ruiz-from-world-series-champion-dodgers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/379833\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins acquire outfielder Esteury Ruiz from World Series champion Dodgers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 The Miami Marlins acquired outfielder Esteury Ruiz from the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday night in a trade for minor league right-hander Adriano Marrero.<\/p>\n<p>The speedy Ruiz led the American League with 67 stolen bases for the Athletics in 2023. He is a career .241 hitter during four major league seasons with four teams, but excels as a baserunner and a defender.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers acquired Ruiz from the A\u2019s last April, and he was a little-used reserve when he was in the majors for <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/los-angeles-dodgers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the back-to-back World Series champions<\/a>. Ruiz batted .190 in 19 games for Los Angeles, largely playing as a defensive replacement or a pinch runner.<\/p>\n<p>The Marlins designated infielder Eric Wagaman for assignment to make room on their 40-man roster for Ruiz. The trade opened a spot on the Dodgers\u2019 40-man roster.<\/p>\n<p>As a capable backup outfielder, Ruiz could be the Marlins\u2019 replacement for Dane Myers, who was traded to Cincinnati last weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 The Miami Marlins acquired outfielder Esteury Ruiz from the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-379833","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\/379833","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=379833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}