{"id":429370,"date":"2026-01-22T06:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T06:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/429370\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T06:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T06:22:08","slug":"angels-to-re-sign-yoan-moncada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/429370\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels To Re-Sign Yoan Moncada"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Angels are reportedly in agreement with Yo\u00e1n Moncada<\/a> on a one-year deal. It\u2019s a $4MM guarantee for the client of The Movement Baseball. The Angels have an opening on the 40-man roster and will not need to make a corresponding move to finalize the contract.<\/p>\n

Moncada is back for a second season with the Halos. It\u2019s a similar contract to the $5MM deal that he signed last February. Moncada played reasonably well when healthy but missed a third of the season to a pair of injured list stints. A right thumb sprain and inflammation in his right knee kept him out of action for the majority of the first half. He only played in 36 games before the All-Star Break, though he was available for the entire second half.<\/p>\n

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The 30-year-old Moncada put together a .234\/.336\/.448 showing across 289 plate appearances. He connected on 12 home runs and drew walks at a strong 11.1% rate while striking out a little more than a quarter of the time. It was a typical Moncada season \u2014 solid power and on-base skills with lots of strikeouts and a couple injury absences.<\/p>\n

Moncada was once the top prospect in MLB. He had a couple star-level performances with the White Sox in 2019 and \u201921 but didn\u2019t become the franchise player they expected when they signed him to a $70MM extension in Spring Training 2020. Moncada combined for a .234\/.288\/.386 batting line between 2022-23. He barely played in \u201924 because of a serious adductor (groin) strain, and the White Sox had an easy call to buy him out for $5MM instead of a $25MM club option.<\/p>\n

A switch-hitter, Moncada has been better from the left side of the plate over his career. The Angels used mostly in a platoon capacity last year, as he only took 27 plate appearances against southpaws. He\u2019ll get the majority of playing time at third base but could cede some at-bats against lefties, with righty-hitting\u00a0Vaughn Grissom<\/a> and\u00a0Denzer Guzman<\/a> options for at-bats.<\/p>\n

Grissom, acquired from the Red Sox in a buy-low trade at the Winter Meetings, is a better fit at second base. The Angels are likely to give former first-round pick\u00a0Christian Moore<\/a> another look at the keystone, but he struggled to a .198\/.284\/.370 line in his first 53 MLB games. Moore has only 30 games of Triple-A experience and could need more time in the minors. Grissom is out of options and will be on the big league roster in some capacity. Former top prospect\u00a0Oswald Peraza<\/a> is also out of options but seems less assured to avoid landing on waivers out of Spring Training.<\/p>\n

The Angels have signed five MLB free agent contracts this offseason, all via one-year deals.\u00a0Kirby Yates<\/a>,\u00a0Drew Pomeranz<\/a>,\u00a0Jordan Romano<\/a> and\u00a0Alek Manoah<\/a> came aboard for $5MM or less. They\u2019ve spent a combined $16.95MM this offseason without making any moves that extend beyond 2026. RosterResource<\/a> now calculates their payroll around $180MM, about $13MM south of where they opened the \u201925 season. They still need to add at least one starter and would ideally upgrade in center field, where Josh Lowe<\/a>,\u00a0Bryce Teodosio<\/a> and\u00a0Wade Meckler<\/a> are the top options.<\/p>\n

Francys Romero<\/a> first reported the agreement. Jon Heyman of The New York Post<\/a> had the $4MM guarantee. Image courtesy of Peter Aiken, Imagn Images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Angels are reportedly in agreement with Yo\u00e1n Moncada on a one-year deal. It\u2019s a $4MM guarantee for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85,16067],"class_list":{"0":"post-429370","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","12":"tag-yoan-moncada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429370","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=429370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}