{"id":311937,"date":"2025-11-28T08:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T08:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/311937\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T08:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T08:25:07","slug":"red-sox-sign-free-agent-who-made-mlb-debut-with-blue-jays-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/311937\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox sign free agent who made MLB debut with Blue Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/boston-red-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Red Sox<\/a> have added some depth who began his professional baseball career with the AL East rival <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/toronto-blue-jays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The MLB <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/player\/vinny-capra-681962\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">transactions page<\/a> revealed that the Red Sox have signed infielder Vinny Capra to a minor league contract. He presumably has an invite to big league spring training.<\/p>\n<p>Capra was originally a 20th-round pick of the Blue Jays in the 2018 draft.<\/p>\n<p>He broke through for his MLB debut with Toronto and played eight games for the Blue Jays.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Capra was then traded to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/pittsburgh-pirates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> for catcher Tyler Heineman.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/green-bay-packers\/news\/packers-jordan-love-makes-nfl-history-thanksgiving-not-done-2010-brett-favre\/623d04f65f4f11ae16ff71a2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jordan Love makes NFL history not done since Brett Favre in 2010<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since then, Capra has made MLB appearances for the Pirates, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/milwaukee-brewers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/chicago-white-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago White Sox<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Capra opened the 2025 season with the Brewers, for whom he was briefly hot before getting ice cold.<\/p>\n<p>He ended up batting only .125 in 47 MLB games in 2025, which didn&#8217;t lead to him being kept around by the White Sox, for whom he ended the year.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nfl\/cleveland-browns\/news\/shedeur-sanders-barack-obama-praise-nba-champion\/60f46a6b6d509237d3043415\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shedeur Sanders given Barack Obama-level praise by NBA champion<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Capra can play second base, third base, shortstop and even outfield.<\/p>\n<p>He also has solid Triple-A numbers. In 2025 at Charlotte, he batted .286 with a .440 slugging percentage.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox have strong infield depth, including players who can play multiple positions. Capra would likely need a highly impressive spring to even have a chance at the MLB roster on Opening Day.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s never bad to have guys like Capra around at Triple-A Worcester for some additional depth if it&#8217;s needed.<\/p>\n<p>More news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Red Sox have added some depth who began his professional baseball career with the AL East&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-311937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311937","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=311937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}