{"id":664930,"date":"2026-05-12T18:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/664930\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T18:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:08:09","slug":"dodgers-acquire-of-alek-thomas-from-diamondbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/664930\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers acquire OF Alek Thomas from Diamondbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alek Thomas has found a new home in the NL West after being designated for assignment. <\/p>\n<p>Thomas was DFA&#8217;d by the Diamondbacks last week after struggling at the plate through 28 games this season. He was batting .181 with a .563 OPS and two home runs prior to the transaction.<\/p>\n<p>A former top prospect for Arizona, the 26-year-old has struggled to find consistency over his five years in MLB, posting a career .230 batting average and .634 OPS with 31 home runs in 448 games. <\/p>\n<p>The D-backs originally selected Thomas in the second round of the 2018 MLB Amateur Draft out of high school.<\/p>\n<p>Requena, a 17-year-old outfielder from Venezuela, was signed by the Dodgers as an international free agent in January. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/player\/jose-requena-837769?stats=career-r-hitting-minors&amp;year=2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB&#8217;s transactions log<\/a>, he will be assigned to the Arizona Red in the Dominican Summer League. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alek Thomas has found a new home in the NL West after being designated for assignment. Thomas was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-664930","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\/664930","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=664930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}