{"id":901247,"date":"2026-09-19T04:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T04:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/901247\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T04:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T04:12:10","slug":"diamondbacks-release-of-lourdes-gurriel-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/901247\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks release OF Lourdes Gurriel Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After designating the outfielder for assignment on Sunday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/arizona-diamondbacks\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"arizona-diamondbacks\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> released Gurriel on Friday, according to the MLB transaction log.<\/p>\n<p>Gurriel was in the\u00a0final guaranteed season of a $42-million, three-year contract. Since it opted to release the 32-year-old, Arizona is now responsible for the $5 million buyout of a $14 million team option for 2027.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a very difficult move,\u201d Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo said on Sunday. &#8220;The discussion with Lourdes last night was painful for all of us. He has meant so much to this organization, carried at times, led us to a World Series, has been a dependable bat, a great teammate, a big influence in that clubhouse and to say goodbye to that is never easy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He spent four seasons with the Diamondbacks, earning an all-star selection in 2023 as the Diamondbacks reached the World Series for the second time.<\/p>\n<p>Gurriel tore his ACL late in 2025 and returned ahead of schedule on April 18. The 32-year-old Cuban struggled with more injuries and inconsistency, hitting .210 with two homers and 22 RBIs in 51 games.<\/p>\n<p>Gurriel spent his first five seasons with Toronto and is a career .271 hitter over nine big-league seasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 with files from The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After designating the outfielder for assignment on Sunday, the Arizona Diamondbacks released Gurriel on Friday, according to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":901248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-901247","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\/901247","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=901247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}