{"id":438072,"date":"2026-01-26T06:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T06:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/438072\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T06:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T06:57:08","slug":"blue-jays-sign-connor-seabold-to-minor-league-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/438072\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays sign Connor Seabold to minor-league contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seabold, 30, appeared in seven games with the Tampa Bay Rays and Atlanta Braves last season, posting a 4.35 ERA and 10 strikeouts in 10.1 innings. <\/p>\n<p>Seabold was a third-round pick of the Philadelphia Phillies back in 2017 and has appeared in parts of four major-league seasons, having logged 119 innings at the big-league level since debuting in 2021 with the Boston Red Sox, Colorado Rockies, Tampa Bay, Atlanta, and a year overseas in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The bulk of his MLB workload came in 2023 with the Rockies, where he served as a swingman, making 13 starts and 14 relief appearances, throwing 87.1 innings but struggling to a 7.52 ERA.<\/p>\n<p>During his season with the KBO\u2019s Samsung Lions in 2024, he made 28 starts and posted a 3.43 ERA across 160 innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seabold, 30, appeared in seven games with the Tampa Bay Rays and Atlanta Braves last season, posting a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-438072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438072","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=438072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}