{"id":408072,"date":"2026-01-14T06:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/408072\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T06:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:32:07","slug":"reds-sign-free-agent-who-was-converted-from-catcher-to-pitcher-by-blue-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/408072\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds sign free agent who was converted from catcher to pitcher by Blue Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/cincinnati-reds\/news\/reds-sign-free-agent-converted-catcher-pitcher-blue-jays\/34dde9ab203bc4a35c6f06d2?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Reds sign free agent who was converted from catcher to pitcher by Blue Jays;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Reds sign free agent who was converted from catcher to pitcher by Blue Jays<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Preferred Source by clicking here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/cincinnati-reds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cincinnati Reds;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cincinnati Reds<\/a>&#8216; newest pitching signing out of free agency hasn&#8217;t been a pitcher for all that long.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Hagen Danner was drafted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/toronto-blue-jays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Toronto Blue Jays;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> as a catcher.<\/p>\n<p>Only after his bat stalled out was Danner moved to the mound by Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>He even made it to the majors with the Blue Jays in 2023, but he got just a single out at the MLB level.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto cut him loose after 2024 and he joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/seattle-mariners\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Seattle Mariners;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Seattle Mariners<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/toronto-blue-jays\/news\/blue-jays-ernie-clement-completes-improbable-rise-team-usa-world-baseball-classic\/005abc1420c9f66f2f926324\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ernie Clement completes improbable rise to Team USA for WBC;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Ernie Clement completes improbable rise to Team USA for WBC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Danner pitched the entire season in Triple-A with Tacoma and had a 5.59 ERA.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Danner is 6-foot-1, 27 years old and 215 pounds. He&#8217;s originally from Huntington Beach, California.<\/p>\n<p>In his minor league career, Danner has struck out 10.0 batters per nine innings, which is a great and promising rate.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/new-york-yankees\/news\/yankees-newest-trade-acquisition-son-pitcher-won-world-series-pinstripes\/b8e7094f3b5ac41a94f2090c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Yankees trade for son of former New York World Series champion;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Yankees trade for son of former New York World Series champion<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Reds likely see stuff that they can mold in the hopes of creating a useful big league reliever.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s really no risk for this move, which was announced as part of the Reds&#8217; spring training invite list on their official social media channels on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>And if Danner works out, it extends what has been a cool baseball story for him already.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reds sign free agent who was converted from catcher to pitcher by Blue Jays originally appeared on The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,3983,34335,171925,462,470,82,14248,507,1505],"class_list":{"0":"post-408072","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-cincinnati-reds","11":"tag-ernie-clement","12":"tag-hagen-danner","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-seattle-mariners","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-the-blue-jays","17":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","18":"tag-yankees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408072","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=408072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}