{"id":400484,"date":"2026-01-11T05:19:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/400484\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:19:06","slug":"reds-sign-slugger-who-hit-25-home-runs-in-2024-for-nl-west-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/400484\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds sign slugger who hit 25 home runs in 2024 for NL West club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/cincinnati-reds\/news\/reds-sign-slugger-hit-25-home-runs-2024-nl-west-club\/2a1b24c184188cdd6be8f2d1?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Reds sign slugger who hit 25 home runs in 2024 for NL West club;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Reds sign slugger who hit 25 home runs in 2024 for NL West club<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Preferred Source by clicking here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/cincinnati-reds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cincinnati Reds;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cincinnati Reds<\/a> need all the thump they can get.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Their pitching staff is great, and their lineup is well rounded, but there isn&#8217;t a lot of power-hitting going on for Cincy.<\/p>\n<p>So in free agency on Saturday, they signed a sleeper who definitely has some pop in his bat.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2026\/01\/reds-sign-michael-toglia-to-minor-league-deal.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:MLB Trade Rumors;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">MLB Trade Rumors<\/a>, the Reds have signed Michael Toglia to a minor league deal.<\/p>\n<p>Toglia had a great 2024 MLB season when he slugged 25 home runs for the Rockies.<\/p>\n<p>He hit just 11 homers in 2025 as he struggled and spent a bunch of time in Triple-A.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/boston-red-sox\/news\/red-sox-paying-manny-ramirez-same-salary-2026-dodgers-shohei-ohtani\/9feb5f58536757b3ee946c23\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Red Sox are paying Manny Ramirez same 2026 salary as Dodgers are paying Shohei Ohtani;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Red Sox are paying Manny Ramirez same 2026 salary as Dodgers are paying Shohei Ohtani<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Rockies non-tendered Toglia after the season, which sent him into free agency and allowed him to be signed elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>His strikeout rate was the problem in 2025, and he&#8217;ll have to do better with that to make his future brighter for Cincy.<\/p>\n<p>Toglia is 27 years old.<\/p>\n<p>He was a first-round pick by the Rockies in the 2019 MLB Draft out of UCLA.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-5 lefty has played in parts of four MLB seasons.<\/p>\n<p>He has 42 homers in 280 MLB games with a .201 average and .666 OPS.<\/p>\n<p>In that strong 2024 season, he had a .767 OPS. That&#8217;s the player the Reds are hoping they are getting.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reds sign slugger who hit 25 home runs in 2024 for NL West club originally appeared on The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[2319,4279,49777,158735,363,28624,3956,99,7948],"class_list":{"0":"post-400484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-cincinnati-reds","9":"tag-dodgers","10":"tag-manny-ramirez","11":"tag-michael-toglia","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-red-sox","14":"tag-shohei-ohtani","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-the-rockies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400484","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=400484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}