{"id":356846,"date":"2025-12-20T03:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T03:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/356846\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T03:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T03:16:09","slug":"diamondbacks-re-sign-ildemaro-vargas-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/356846\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks Re-Sign Ildemaro Vargas &#8211; MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Diamondbacks are in agreement on a new minor league contract with infielder\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/v\/vargail01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ildemaro Vargas<\/a>, reports <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JonHeyman\/status\/2002170860216443230\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jon Heyman of The New York Post<\/a>. The MAS+ Agency client returns to the organization after being outrighted off the roster at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Vargas has plenty of familiarity with the D-Backs. The veteran utilityman has played three separate big league stints and parts of six seasons in the desert. He got into 38 games this past season. Vargas hit .270 but only walked twice in 121 plate appearances, leading to a modest .292 on-base percentage. He\u2019s a .249\/.289\/.357 hitter over parts of nine MLB seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Defensive versatility has been Vargas\u2019 calling card. The majority of his experience has been at shortstop, but he saw more action between second and third base this year. He\u2019s entering his age-34 season and likely headed to Triple-A Reno. The D-Backs also added glove-first shortstop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/a\/amayaja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jacob Amaya<\/a>\u00a0as non-roster infield depth earlier this offseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Diamondbacks are in agreement on a new minor league contract with infielder\u00a0Ildemaro Vargas, reports Jon Heyman of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,122992,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-356846","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-ildemaro-vargas","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356846","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=356846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}