{"id":487820,"date":"2026-02-20T14:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/487820\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T14:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:36:07","slug":"royals-sign-elias-diaz-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/487820\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals Sign Elias D\u00edaz To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Royals have signed catcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/diazel01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-20_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Elias D\u00edaz<\/a> to a minor league contract, per a club announcement. The ACES client is expected to report to major league camp next week, the team added.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old D\u00edaz is a veteran of 11 big league seasons split between the Pirates, Rockies and Padres. He\u2019s a career .247\/.300\/.383 hitter in exactly 2800 plate appearances but batted just .204\/.270\/.337 (74 wRC+) in 283 plate appearances with the Padres in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Royals have signed catcher Elias D\u00edaz to a minor league contract, per a club announcement. The ACES&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,128917,462,82],"class_list":["post-487820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-elias-diaz","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487820","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=487820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}