{"id":103834,"date":"2025-08-28T19:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/103834\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T19:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:48:09","slug":"guardians-release-carlos-santana-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/103834\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians Release Carlos Santana – MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Guardians have released first baseman Carlos Santana<\/a>, per a team announcement. He\u2019d been placed on outright waivers<\/a> earlier in the week and clearly went unclaimed. Infielder Daniel Schneemann<\/a> has been reinstated from the paternity list and will take Santana\u2019s spot on the active roster. Santana is now a free agent and can sign with any team for the prorated league minimum for the remainder of the season. So long as he signs prior to Sept. 1, he would be postseason-eligible with a new team.<\/p>\n

Santana\u2019s third stint in Cleveland will conclude with a lackluster .225\/.316\/.333 batting line and 11 home runs in 455 plate appearances. The 39-year-old remains an elite defender at first base, but his bat has wilted from both sides of the plate. The veteran switch-hitter is slashing just .220\/.311\/.325 against right-handed pitching and .235\/.328\/.353 versus lefties. That said, Santana was a thunderous force against left-handed pitching as recently as last season, when he raked at a .286\/.356\/.578 pace in 163 chances from the right-handed batter\u2019s box.<\/p>\n

Through the trade deadline, Santana\u2019s bat was at least within arm\u2019s reach of league average, but virtually all of his production this year came in a torrid month of May. He\u2019s been below average at the plate in every other month and has cratered in August, hitting .186\/.271\/.233 through 48 plate appearances.<\/p>\n

His recent poor play, coupled with the presence of young Kyle Manzardo<\/a> and the recent promotion of top prospect C.J. Kayfus<\/a>, left Santana without a clear role on a Guardians club that has fallen out of postseason contention. Cleveland will take the final month of the season to get regular reps for the 25-year-old Manzardo and the 23-year-old Kayfus. They\u2019d surely hoped that another club would claim Santana and take on the remainder of his $12MM salary, but that was always a long shot. The Guards will remain on the hook for what\u2019s left of that sum (minus the prorated minimum for any time he spends on another club\u2019s major league roster).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Guardians have released first baseman Carlos Santana, per a team announcement. He\u2019d been placed on outright waivers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,52627,462,82],"class_list":["post-103834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carlos-santana","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}