{"id":421971,"date":"2026-01-22T02:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T02:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/421971\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T02:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T02:13:09","slug":"angels-to-re-sign-yoan-moncada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/421971\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels To Re-Sign Yoan Moncada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Angels are in agreement with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/moncayo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-21_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yo\u00e1n Moncada<\/a> on a new free agent deal, reports <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/francysromeroFR\/status\/2014141796956115009\" rel=\"nofollow\">Francys Romero<\/a>. It\u2019s a one-year, $4MM contract, reports <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JonHeyman\/status\/2014142092210061391\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jon Heyman of The New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Moncada is back for a second season with the Halos. It\u2019s a similar contract to the $5MM deal that he signed last February. Moncada played reasonably well when healthy but missed a third of the season to a pair of injured list stints. A right thumb sprain and inflammation in his right knee kept him out of action for the majority of the first half. He only played in 36 games before the All-Star Break, though he was available for the entire second half.<\/p>\n<p>The switch-hitting Moncada put together a .234\/.336\/.448 showing across 289 plate appearances. He connected on 12 home runs and drew walks at a strong 11.1% rate while striking out a little more than a quarter of the time. It was a typical Moncada season \u2014 solid power and on-base skills with lots of strikeouts and a couple injury absences.<\/p>\n<p>Moncada was once the top prospect in MLB. He had a couple star-level performances with the White Sox in 2019 and \u201921 but didn\u2019t become the franchise player they expected when they signed him to a $70MM extension in Spring Training 2020. Moncada combined for a .234\/.288\/.386 batting line between 2022-23. He barely played in \u201924 because of a serious adductor (groin) strain, and the White Sox had an easy call to buy him out for $5MM instead of a $25MM club option.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Angels are in agreement with\u00a0Yo\u00e1n Moncada on a new free agent deal, reports Francys Romero. It\u2019s a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99,141737],"class_list":["post-421971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-yoan-moncada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421971","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=421971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}