{"id":356935,"date":"2025-12-18T23:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/356935\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T23:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:24:10","slug":"infielder-christopher-morel-and-marlins-finalize-1-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/356935\/","title":{"rendered":"Infielder Christopher Morel and Marlins finalize 1-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Infielder Christopher Morel and the Cleveland Guardians have finalized a one-year contract. Morel, 26, hit .219 with 37 runs, 16 doubles, 11 homers and 33 RBI in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>MIAMI(AP) \u2014 Infielder Christopher Morel and the Cleveland Guardians finalized a one-year contract on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Morel, 26, hit .219 with 37 runs, 16 doubles, 11 homers and 33 RBI in 105 games with the Tampa Bay Rays last season. He started 57 games in left field with a .971 fielding percentage, made one start in right field and one appearance at second base.<\/p>\n<p>The Santiago, Dominican Republic, native was signed by the Chicago Cubs in August 2015, ranking as high as the organization\u2019s No. 8 prospect by MLB Pipeline in 2021. <\/p>\n<p>He played in 323 games with Chicago over parts of three seasons from 2022-24 and hit .228 with 43 doubles, eight triples, 60 home runs, and 168 RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>The move is the first significant signing of the offseason for the Marlins, who finished the 2025 season with a 79-83 record under first-year manager Clayton McCollough.<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Infielder Christopher Morel and the Cleveland Guardians have finalized a one-year contract. Morel, 26, hit .219 with 37&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-356935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356935","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=356935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}