{"id":742407,"date":"2026-06-17T08:55:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T08:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/742407\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T08:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T08:55:28","slug":"los-angeles-dodgers-designate-former-toronto-blue-jays-infielder-santiago-espinal-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/742407\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Dodgers designate former Toronto Blue Jays infielder Santiago Espinal for assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/santiago-espinal\/918188\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/santiago-espinal\/918188\" target=\"_blank\">Santiago Espinal<\/a>\u2019s second stint 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> is over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/toronto-blue-jays\/238\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/toronto-blue-jays\/238\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> infielder was designated for assignment on Tuesday with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/tommy-edman\/873704\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/tommy-edman\/873704\" target=\"_blank\">Tommy Edman<\/a>\u2019s activation from the injured list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Espinal, 31, had been released by the team in late May, but he re-signed to a minor-league deal the following day. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A native of Santiago, Dominican Republic, Espinal appeared 36 games for the Dodgers this season. He batted .268 with 15 hits, a home run, seven runs batted in and an OPS of .651.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Originally drafted in 2016 out of Miami Dade College, Espinal spent the past two seasons with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/cincinnati-reds\/241\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/cincinnati-reds\/241\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Reds<\/a>. He was an All-Star in 2022 with the Blue Jays with whom he spent the first four seasons of his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Santiago Espinal\u2019s second stint with the Los Angeles Dodgers is over. The former Toronto Blue Jays infielder was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[712,49,48,90907,462,266287,82],"class_list":["post-742407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-los-angeles-dodgers-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-243","tag-mlb","tag-santiago-espinal-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-918188","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742407","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=742407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}