{"id":130013,"date":"2026-01-12T07:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T07:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/130013\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T07:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T07:52:10","slug":"angels-sign-nick-madrigal-to-join-crowded-infield-competition-at-second-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/130013\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels Sign Nick Madrigal To Join Crowded Infield Competition At Second Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Madrigal signed a minor league deal, so he\u2019ll be among many infielders getting a long look in spring training. He won\u2019t supply much power, but Madrigal has been very difficult to strike out, and if he makes the club that will end up being a major strength for a team that struggled with strikeouts last year. He\u2019s not a power hitter, but the Angels have plenty of players who can hit home runs, including outfielder Jo Adell, DH Mike Trout and shortstop Zach Neto.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Madrigal signed a minor league deal, so he\u2019ll be among many infielders getting a long look in spring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-130013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}