{"id":373954,"date":"2025-12-28T11:23:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T11:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/373954\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T11:23:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T11:23:20","slug":"outfielder-jj-bleday-agrees-to-a-1-4-million-1-year-contract-with-the-cincinnati-reds-mlb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/373954\/","title":{"rendered":"Outfielder JJ Bleday agrees to a $1.4 million, 1-year contract with the Cincinnati Reds | MLB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Outfielder JJ Bleday and the Cincinnati Reds agreed Saturday to a $1.4 million, one-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old hit .212 with 14 homers and 39 RBIs with the Athletics this year, down from a .243 average in 2024, when he set career bests with 20 homers and 60 RBIs for Oakland.<\/p>\n<p>Also Saturday, Cincinnati acquired outfielder Dane Myers from Miami Marlins for minor league outfielder Ethan O\u2019Donnell.<\/p>\n<p>Selected fourth overall by Miami in the 2019 amateur draft, Bleday became a free agent last month when <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/athletics-medina-waldichuk-contracts-a612d283bf7197a9c509e2efeb03c391\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the A&#8217;s designated him for assignment<\/a> and failed to offer a 2026 contract. His contract was <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/henderson-de-la-cruz-miller-18aaa6fa98927ca52bf49e365613c302\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">automatically renewed by the A&#8217;s last March for $770,000 while in the major leagues<\/a> and had he remained on the team&#8217;s 40-man roster he would have been eligible for salary arbitration for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Bleday was the A&#8217;s opening-day center fielder in 2024 and \u201825. He has a .215 average with 49 homers and 142 RBIs in four seasons with the Marlins (2022) and A\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his guaranteed salary, Bleday can earn additional performance bonuses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/thompson-reds-contract-254ad50e7ddddc76058e1fb5daa952fc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Right-hander Keegan Thompson was designated for assignment<\/a> to open a roster spot. He agreed last month to a one-year contract calling for $1.3 million in the major leagues and $350,000 in the minors.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Myers hit .235 with six homers, 31 RBIs and 18 stolen bases this year. He had a .245 average with 10 homers, 59 RBIs and 23 steals in three seasons with Miami.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Donnell, 23, batted .236 with seven homers, 56 RBIs and 20 stole bases this year for Double-A Chattanooga.<\/p>\n<p>Cincinnati designated right-hander Lyon Richardson for assignment.<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n                Success! An email has been sent to  with a link to confirm list signup.\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                Error! There was an error processing your request.\n            <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Outfielder JJ Bleday and the Cincinnati Reds agreed Saturday to a $1.4 million, one-year contract.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[1558,182996,363,2008,99,24324],"class_list":{"0":"post-373954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-jj-bleday-contract-reds","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-mlb-baseball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sports-transactions"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373954","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=373954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}