{"id":439780,"date":"2026-01-27T02:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/439780\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T02:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:35:09","slug":"cubs-sign-outfielder-dylan-carlson-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/439780\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs sign outfielder Dylan Carlson to minor league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/chc\/chicago-cubs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cubs<\/a> have signed outfielder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/39226\/dylan-carlson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dylan Carlson<\/a> to a minor league deal that includes an invitation to big league camp for spring training.<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs announced the contract Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old Carlson is expected to compete for a backup job. He batted .203 with six homers and 20 RBI in 83 games with Baltimore last season.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson was selected by St. Louis in the first round of the 2016 amateur draft. He hit .239 with 34 homers and 161 RBIs in 447 games with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c781e7c6-2c5b-beaf-55b8-999c76f76661\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/stl\/st-louis-cardinals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cardinals<\/a> before he was traded to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tb\/tampa-bay-rays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> in July 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO &#8212; The Cubs have signed outfielder Dylan Carlson to a minor league deal that includes an invitation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-439780","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\/439780","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=439780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}