{"id":378850,"date":"2025-12-31T06:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T06:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/378850\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T06:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T06:38:07","slug":"reds-sign-yunior-marte-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/378850\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds Sign Yunior Marte To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Reds are in agreement with reliever\u00a0Yunior Marte<\/a> on a minor league contract with an invite to big league Spring Training, reports Francys Romero<\/a>. The righty would lock in a $1.05MM base salary if he breaks camp.<\/p>\n

Marte is back in affiliated ball after spending the 2025 season in Japan. The Dominican-born hurler signed with NPB\u2019s Chunichi Dragons last winter. He divided his time between the top level and their minor league club. Marte managed a 1.95 earned run average with a pair of saves and 11 holds over 32 1\/3 innings for the NPB team. That came with a modest 19.1% strikeout rate and was heavily reliant on a .213 average on balls in play against him.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old (31 in February) pitched in the big leagues each year from 2022-24. Marte made 39 appearances for the Giants as a rookie and spent the next two seasons as an up-and-down middle reliever for the Phillies. He has a big arm, sitting in the 96-98 MPH range with his sinker. Marte missed a decent number of bats in the minors but has a below-average 20.1% strikeout percentage over 102 big league appearances. He owns a 5.64 ERA in 113 1\/3 career frames.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati has a solid late-inning group led by re-signed closer Emilio Pag\u00e1n<\/a>, Tony Santillan<\/a>,\u00a0Graham Ashcraft<\/a>,\u00a0Connor Phillips<\/a> and\u00a0Caleb Ferguson<\/a>. They have a few openings in the middle innings and don\u2019t have a ton of minor league depth. Tejay Antone<\/a> is their only other currently healthy non-roster invitee who has MLB experience, though they\u2019ll presumably try to get Keegan Thompson<\/a> through waivers after he was designated for assignment last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Reds are in agreement with reliever\u00a0Yunior Marte on a minor league contract with an invite to big…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82,27876],"class_list":{"0":"post-378850","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","12":"tag-yunior-marte"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378850","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=378850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}