{"id":442336,"date":"2026-01-30T05:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T05:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/442336\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T05:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T05:24:07","slug":"marlins-sign-daniel-johnson-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/442336\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins Sign Daniel Johnson To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Marlins announced their slate of non-roster invitations to MLB camp on Thursday. Outfielder\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/johnsda07.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daniel Johnson<\/a> is among the group, as the MLB.com <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/player\/daniel-johnson-669288\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">transaction log<\/a> indicates he agreed to a minor league deal with Miami around the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson played in a career-high 31 MLB games last season between the Giants and Orioles. The former fifth-round pick took 57 trips to the plate, batting .189\/.246\/.302 with one home run. Johnson is a career .196\/.243\/.322 hitter in sporadic looks spanning four seasons in the big leagues.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old has played parts of six Triple-A campaigns. Johnson has a .257\/.323\/.452 line at the top minor league level. That includes 52 contests last season, in which he had a solid .267\/.314\/.490 mark with a career-low 17.3% strikeout rate. Johnson has always had strong physical tools. He\u2019s a good runner with an excellent arm and above-average bat speed. His approach and well below-average contact skills have kept him from securing consistent playing time at the MLB level.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson is another left-handed bat in an outfield mix that includes lefty swingers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/stoweky01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-29_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kyle Stowers<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/marseja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-29_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jakob Marsee<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/caissow01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-29_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Owen Caissie<\/a> and potentially\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/coningr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-29_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Griffin Conine<\/a>. He\u2019s likely to begin the season at Triple-A Jacksonville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Marlins announced their slate of non-roster invitations to MLB camp on Thursday. Outfielder\u00a0Daniel Johnson is among the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,123054,462,82],"class_list":["post-442336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-daniel-johnson","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442336","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=442336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}