{"id":5621,"date":"2025-07-18T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/5621\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T14:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T14:00:09","slug":"yankees-sign-former-nl-mvps-son-to-744000-contract-after-mlb-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/5621\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees sign former NL MVP&#8217;s son to $744,000 contract after MLB Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, the New York Yankees drafted Kaeden Kent.<\/p>\n<p>And on Thursday, they got him signed to his full slot-value contract with a signing bonus of $744,000, according to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jimcallisMLB\/status\/1945916689549336675\" rel=\"nofollow\">MLB.com&#8217;s Jim Callis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s the son of Jeff Kent, the former San Francisco Giants MVP of the National League in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Kaeden Kent is a shortstop from Texas A&amp;M.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-2, 200-pound junior started every game at shortstop for the Aggies this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a strong prospect, having batted .279 with 13 doubles, 13 homers and 49 RBI. He had 19 multi-hit games this spring. He also hit a walk-off grand slam against South Carolina, and he had a big postseason run in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a onclick=\"dataLayer.push({event: &#039;element_click&#039;,item_type: &#039;affiliate link&#039;,item_id: &#039;https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/new-york-yankees\/news\/yankees-joe-dimaggio-hitting-streak-almost-went-much-longer-56-games\/c24b49f004c67037bb3d2622&#039;,item_name: &#039;Joe DiMaggio&#039;s hitting streak was almost much longer than 56 games&#039;,cta_type: &#039;contextual_link&#039;,cta_id: &#039;&#039;});\" target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/new-york-yankees\/news\/yankees-joe-dimaggio-hitting-streak-almost-went-much-longer-56-games\/c24b49f004c67037bb3d2622\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Joe DiMaggio&#8217;s hitting streak was almost much longer than 56 games<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Callis writes that Kent profiles as an &#8220;offensive 2B,&#8221; which is exactly what his dad was.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Could be an average hitter with power to match, high baseball IQ,&#8221; Callis adds.<\/p>\n<p>There was little doubt the Yankees would sign Kent once they took him in the third round, but it&#8217;s good to get him officially on board and sent out to a minor league team to start playing professional baseball.<\/p>\n<p>MORE MLB NEWS:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Sunday, the New York Yankees drafted Kaeden Kent. And on Thursday, they got him signed to his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-5621","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\/5621","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=5621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}