{"id":351596,"date":"2025-12-16T06:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T06:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/351596\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T06:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T06:55:07","slug":"miguel-sano-finalizing-deal-with-npbs-chunichi-dragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/351596\/","title":{"rendered":"Miguel San\u00f3 Finalizing Deal With NPB&#8217;s Chunichi Dragons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chunichi Dragons of Nippon Professional Baseball are finalizing a one-year deal with slugger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/sanomi01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-15_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miguel San\u00f3<\/a>, reports <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/francysromeroFR\/status\/2000262529881370638?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Francys Romero<\/a>. The signing is pending a physical.<\/p>\n<p>San\u00f3 hasn\u2019t played in the regular season since being released by the Angels in July 2024. He has played winter ball in his native Dominican Republic for the past couple years. After posting an .856 OPS in 2024-25, San\u00f3 has hit .315\/.376\/.663 with nine homers in 24 games this winter. That form earns him his first professional stint in Asia.<\/p>\n<p>A former All-Star with the Twins, San\u00f3 has a couple 30-homer seasons in the big leagues. He owns a .233\/.325\/.477 line with 164 home runs in just under 3000 career plate appearances. San\u00f3\u2019s most recent above-average showing came in 2021. Injuries, strikeouts and his lack of defensive value pushed him to the fringe of MLB rosters after that. He played in 48 games with the Twins and Angels between 2022-24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chunichi Dragons of Nippon Professional Baseball are finalizing a one-year deal with slugger Miguel San\u00f3, reports Francys&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[175020,363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-351596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-miguel-sano","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}