Versatile infielder Andy Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez and the Los Angeles Dodgers finalized a $1.2 million, one-year contract on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old Cuban hit .239 with four homers and 21 RBIs in 91 games for Detroit last season, then became a free agent in November when the Tigers failed to offer a 2026 contract.<\/p>\n
In three seasons with Detroit, Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez played six defensive positions and hit .251 with 20 homers and 94 RBIs in 304 games. <\/p>\n
He began his big league career with the Texas Rangers in 2021 after signing in 2015. He has a .254 career average with 28 homers and 128 RBIs in 420 games.<\/p>\n
To make room on the 40-man roster, the Dodgers designated infielder\/outfielder Ryan Fitzgerald for assignment. He was claimed off waivers from the Minnesota Twins last week and never saw time with the Boys in Blue.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In their news release announcing Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez’s signing, the Dodgers mistakenly referred to their designated player as Tyler Fitzgerald, who is currently an infielder with the San Francisco Giants.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Versatile infielder Andy Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez and the Los Angeles Dodgers finalized a $1.2 million, one-year contract on Tuesday. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[372,2323,13090,363,99,2330],"class_list":{"0":"post-405952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-detroit-tigers","9":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","10":"tag-major-league-baseball","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-texas-rangers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405952","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=405952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}