{"id":623191,"date":"2026-04-22T08:58:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/623191\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T08:58:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:58:29","slug":"phillies-re-sign-pedro-leon-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/623191\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies Re-Sign Pedro Le\u00f3n To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Phillies re-signed outfielder\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/leonpe01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-22_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pedro Le\u00f3n<\/a> to a minor league contract, according to the MLB.com <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/player\/pedro-leon-694175\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">transaction tracker<\/a>. He\u2019s back with Triple-A Lehigh Valley but no longer occupies a 40-man roster spot.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia released Le\u00f3n on Saturday when they selected infielder\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/reyesfe01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-22_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Felix Reyes<\/a> onto the roster. Le\u00f3n had been placed on the minor league injured list with a right hamstring strain a couple weeks ago. Teams cannot place injured players on outright waivers, so the Phils released Le\u00f3n to take him off the roster.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear how long Le\u00f3n will be sidelined. The Phillies evidently still like him as a depth piece but were willing to risk him signing elsewhere if needed to drop him from the 40-man. Philadelphia claimed Le\u00f3n off waivers from Baltimore early in the offseason. He\u2019s hitting .283 but has fanned 19 times in his first 53 plate appearances with Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Le\u00f3n is a .253\/.354\/.443 hitter in just over 400 Triple-A games. His MLB experience consists of seven games for the Astros two years ago. Le\u00f3n was once a highly-regarded amateur signee out of Cuba based on his power-speed combination. That has been undercut by strikeout issues that have made him an average Triple-A hitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phillies re-signed outfielder\u00a0Pedro Le\u00f3n to a minor league contract, according to the MLB.com transaction tracker. He\u2019s back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,154378,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-623191","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-pedro-leon","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623191","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=623191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}