{"id":22972,"date":"2025-07-25T11:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T11:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/22972\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T11:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T11:52:08","slug":"mariners-acquire-canadian-slugger-josh-naylor-from-diamondbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/22972\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners acquire Canadian slugger Josh Naylor from Diamondbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Naylor\u2019s stay in Arizona was short-lived.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian slugger was dealt by the Diamondbacks to the <a class=\"sn-team-post-link\" data-team=\"seattle-mariners\" data-league=\"mlb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/seattle-mariners\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Seattle Mariners<\/a> in exchange for pitchers Ashton Izzi and Brandyn Garcia, the teams announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Naylor, the 28-year-old left-handed hitter from Mississauga, Ont., has thrived in his first year with the NL West club, hitting .292 with 11 home runs and 59 RBIs while playing nearly every day.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia and Izzi were the 13th and 16th ranked prospects in the Mariners&#8217; farm system, respectively, according to MLB Pipeline&#8217;s latest update. <\/p>\n<p>Arizona acquired him in a trade with the Cleveland Guardians for pitcher Slade Cecconi and a draft pick during the off-season.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Diamondbacks have faltered, falling out of the playoff race and sitting fourth in the NL West at 50-53.<\/p>\n<p>And so Naylor, who is set to become a free agent after the season, was dealt for future pieces.<\/p>\n<p>Naylor began his career with the San Diego Padres before being traded to the Guardians midway through his second season in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Over 685 career games, he has 95 home runs and 402 RBIs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Naylor\u2019s stay in Arizona was short-lived. The Canadian slugger was dealt by the Diamondbacks to the Seattle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-22972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22972","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=22972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}