{"id":21749,"date":"2025-07-25T00:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T00:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/21749\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T00:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T00:10:07","slug":"dodgers-sign-matt-gorski-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/21749\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers Sign Matt Gorski To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dodgers have signed first baseman\/outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/gorskma01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-24_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Matt Gorski<\/a> to a minor league deal, according to his <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/player\/matt-gorski-685301\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">transactions tracker<\/a> at MLB.com. He\u2019ll presumably report to Triple-A Oklahoma City at some point though his current health status is unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Gorski, 27, got a brief big league stint with the Pirates earlier this year. He was optioned to Triple-A on May 17th. He was placed on the minor league injured list on May 25th with an undisclosed issue. On June 19th, he was transferred to the minor league 60-day IL.<\/p>\n<p>On July 11th, the Pirates added <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/ramiryo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-24_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yohan Ram\u00edrez<\/a> to their roster and Gorski was designated for assignment to open a 40-man spot. Injured players can\u2019t be placed on outright waivers, so he was released, which allowed him to sign this deal with the Dodgers.<\/p>\n<p>Gorski only hit .195\/.214\/.390 in the majors but in a small sample of 42 plate appearances. He has naturally put up more impressive numbers in the minors. Dating back to the start of 2024, he has 521 Triple-A plate appearances with 27 home runs, a .261\/.319\/.521 line and 112 wRC+. He also stole 17 bases, though he was caught nine times as well. Defensively, he has played first base and all three outfield positions.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/freemfr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-24_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Freddie Freeman<\/a> at first base and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/o\/ohtansh01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-24_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shohei Ohtani<\/a> in the designated hitter spot. Their outfield mix consists of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/pagesan01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-24_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Andy Pages<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hernate01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-24_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/confomi01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-24_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michael Conforto<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/o\/outmaja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-24_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">James Outman<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/ruizes01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-24_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Esteury Ruiz<\/a>. Conforto and Outman aren\u2019t performing well but the club may shake up the roster at the deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Gorski is likely just depth and might not even be fully healthy at the moment, but there\u2019s no such thing as a bad minor league deal. He burned his first option year here in 2025 but could still be optioned in two future seasons if he gets a 40-man roster spot down the line.<\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of Kiyoshi Mio, Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dodgers have signed first baseman\/outfielder Matt Gorski to a minor league deal, according to his transactions tracker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,18087,462,82],"class_list":["post-21749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-matt-gorski","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21749","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=21749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}