{"id":426342,"date":"2026-01-22T18:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/426342\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T18:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:06:09","slug":"luke-williams-news-returns-to-atlanta-on-milb-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/426342\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Williams News: Returns to Atlanta on MiLB deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gn-news__notes\">Atlanta re-signed Williams to a minor-league contract Jan. 18.<\/p>\n<p>Williams elected free agency earlier in the offseason after being cast off Atlanta&#8217;s 40-man roster, but he&#8217;s found his way back into the organization on a minor-league pact. The 29-year-old has managed just a .212\/.270\/.280 batting line covering parts of five major-league seasons, but Williams will give Atlanta some utility depth.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"gn-subscribe-cta__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rotowire.com\/images\/rebrand-assets\/site-logo\/logo_symbol.svg\" alt=\"RotoWire\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Win Your League With RotoWire!<\/p>\n<p>Unlock our premium fantasy baseball tools<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a class=\"gn-subscribe-cta__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rotowire.com\/subscribe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign Up Now<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlanta re-signed Williams to a minor-league contract Jan. 18. Williams elected free agency earlier in the offseason after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-426342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426342","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=426342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}