{"id":668067,"date":"2026-05-14T03:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T03:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/668067\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T03:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T03:16:11","slug":"jason-heyward-joins-los-angeles-dodgers-as-special-assistant-in-baseball-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/668067\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Heyward joins Los Angeles Dodgers as special assistant in baseball operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/jason-heyward\/388409\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/jason-heyward\/388409\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Heyward<\/a> is back in baseball less than two months after retiring as a player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 36-year-old five-time Gold Glove outfielder has taken a job with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/los-angeles-dodgers\/243\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/los-angeles-dodgers\/243\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a>, one of the six teams he played for during his 16-year MLB career. He announced his retirement at the end of March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Heyward will be a special assistant in the baseball operations department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m excited for Jason to be back in the organization,\u201d manager Dave Roberts said Wednesday. \u201cI do know that he\u2019s going to do some stuff with the affiliates, which is great. He\u2019s got the clubhouse part covered, so part of it is working with the front office guys and getting to see the other side of things and how it operates and he\u2019s going to be very helpful for his growth and also for the organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Heyward spent two seasons with the Dodgers, winning his second World Series title in 2024. He then played one season in Houston and his final season was in San Diego before retiring. He had earlier stops in Atlanta and St. Louis. He\u2019s best known for his time with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/chicago-cubs\/240\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/chicago-cubs\/240\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Cubs<\/a>, winning the World Series in 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Jason Heyward is back in baseball less than two months after retiring as a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-668067","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\/668067","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=668067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}