{"id":377022,"date":"2025-12-30T09:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T09:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/377022\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T09:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T09:41:08","slug":"miami-marlins-land-former-al-stolen-base-champ-esteury-ruiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/377022\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Marlins land former AL stolen-base champ Esteury Ruiz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dec 29, 2025, 11:44 PM ET<\/p>\n

LOS ANGELES — The Miami Marlins<\/a> acquired outfielder Esteury Ruiz<\/a> from the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> on Monday night in a trade for minor league right-hander Adriano Marrero.<\/p>\n

The speedy Ruiz, 26, led the American League with 67 stolen bases for the Athletics in 2023. He is a career .241 hitter during four major league seasons with four teams, but excels as a baserunner and a defender.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers acquired Ruiz from the A’s last April, and he was a little-used reserve when he was in the majors for the back-to-back World Series champions. Ruiz batted .190 in 19 games for Los Angeles, largely playing as a defensive replacement or a pinch runner.<\/p>\n

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The Marlins designated infielder Eric Wagaman<\/a> for assignment to make room on their 40-man roster for Ruiz. The trade opened a spot on the Dodgers’ 40-man roster.<\/p>\n

As a capable backup outfielder, Ruiz could be the Marlins’ replacement for Dane Myers<\/a>, who was traded to Cincinnati last weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 29, 2025, 11:44 PM ET LOS ANGELES — The Miami Marlins acquired outfielder Esteury Ruiz from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-377022","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\/377022","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=377022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}