{"id":424805,"date":"2026-01-23T10:28:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/424805\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T10:28:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:28:21","slug":"infielder-outfielder-willi-castro-and-colorado-rockies-finalize-12-8-million-2-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/424805\/","title":{"rendered":"Infielder\/outfielder Willi Castro and Colorado Rockies finalize $12.8 million, 2-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">DENVER (AP) \u2014 Versatile infielder\/outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/willi-castro-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Willi Castro<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/colorado-rockies-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Rockies<\/a> finalized a $12.8 million, two-year contract on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Castro spent last season with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/minnesota-twins-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Twins<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/chicago-cubs-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Cubs<\/a>, hitting .226 with 11 homers and 33 RBIs. He played all three outfield spots in addition to seeing time at third and shortstop. He even pitched an inning while with the Twins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">The 28-year-old made his major league debut on Aug. 24, 2019, with Detroit. He spent four seasons with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/detroit-tigers-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tigers<\/a> before joining the Twins, where he was an All-Star in 2024. He was traded to the Cubs in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">Right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/garrett-acton-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Garrett Acton<\/a> was designated for assignment to open a roster spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-746446fd=\"\">AP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/mlb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER (AP) \u2014 Versatile infielder\/outfielder Willi Castro and the Colorado Rockies finalized a $12.8 million, two-year contract on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-424805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424805","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=424805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}