{"id":477806,"date":"2026-02-13T17:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/477806\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T17:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:47:07","slug":"blue-jays-send-of-joey-loperfido-to-astros-for-of-jesus-sanchez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/477806\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays send OF Joey Loperfido to Astros for OF Jes\u00fas S\u00e1nchez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUNEDIN, Fla. &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tor\/toronto-blue-jays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> acquired outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/39957\/jesus-sanchez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jes\u00fas S\u00e1nchez<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/hou\/houston-astros\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Astros<\/a> for outfielder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4297976\/joey-loperfido\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joey Loperfido<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old S\u00e1nchez hit .237 with 14 home runs and 48 RBIs in 134 games last season between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/mia\/miami-marlins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami<\/a> and Houston. The left-handed hitter has 73 home runs in 580 games over six major league seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Loperfido, 26, split last season between Toronto and Triple-A Buffalo, batting .333 in 41 games with the Blue Jays.<\/p>\n<p>He has appeared in 122 career major league contests between Houston and Toronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUNEDIN, Fla. &#8212; The Toronto Blue Jays acquired outfielder Jes\u00fas S\u00e1nchez from the Houston Astros for outfielder Joey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-477806","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\/477806","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=477806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}