{"id":754841,"date":"2026-06-23T02:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T02:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/754841\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T02:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T02:03:09","slug":"braves-re-sign-sandy-leon-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/754841\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves Re-Sign Sandy Le\u00f3n To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Braves brought catcher\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/leonsa01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-22_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sandy Le\u00f3n<\/a> back on a minor league contract, according to the MLB.com <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/player\/sandy-leon-506702\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">transaction log<\/a>. He\u2019ll report to Triple-A Gwinnett.<\/p>\n<p>Le\u00f3n elected free agency after being designated for assignment last week. The Braves pushed him off the roster with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bartjo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-22_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Joey Bart<\/a> acquisition. Le\u00f3n has gone 4-44 with 18 strikeouts and no walks at the major league level this season. The complete dearth of offense made backup catcher an area for the Braves to upgrade pending <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=murphse01,murphy010sea,murphy013sea&amp;search=Sean+Murphy&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-22_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sean Murphy\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0return from a broken finger.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old Le\u00f3n isn\u2019t going to provide anything with the bat, but he has clearly made a strong impression on the organization for his leadership and work behind the dish. Le\u00f3n had a five-game cameo with the Braves last year and has spent most of the past three seasons in Gwinnett.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/baldwdr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-22_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Drake Baldwin<\/a> and Bart are on the MLB roster, while\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/camarja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-22_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jair Camargo<\/a> holds a 40-man roster spot. Le\u00f3n joins Camargo and the still injured\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/handlma01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-22_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Maverick Handley<\/a> as depth options who have MLB experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Braves brought catcher\u00a0Sandy Le\u00f3n back on a minor league contract, according to the MLB.com transaction log. He\u2019ll&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,96708,82],"class_list":["post-754841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sandy-leon","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754841","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=754841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}