{"id":447027,"date":"2026-02-03T18:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/447027\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T18:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:40:10","slug":"former-tigers-regular-gets-another-chance-on-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/447027\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Tigers regular gets another chance on minor-league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

DETROIT — Former Detroit Tigers infielder Jeimer Candelario has signed a minor-league deal with the Los Angeles Angels, the New York Post reported Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Candelario, 32, is trying to work his way back to the big leagues after the bumpiest stretch of his career. <\/p>\n

Candelario spent parts of six seasons with the Tigers, primarily as a third baseman, before being non-tendered after the 2022 season<\/a>. He then signed a one-year, $5 million deal with the Washington Nationals, who traded him to the Chicago Cubs at the 2023 deadline<\/a> for two prospects.<\/p>\n

Candelario originally came up through the Cubs\u2019 minor league system and was traded to the Tigers at the deadline in 2017<\/a> along with fellow infield prospect Isaac Paredes in exchange for catcher Alex Avila and left-handed reliever Justin Wilson.<\/p>\n

The deal involving his son turned out to be perhaps the best trade of former general manager Al Avila\u2019s tenure with the Tigers.<\/p>\n

Candelario was Detroit\u2019s best offensive performer in 2020 and 2021. But like many of his teammates, he struggled in 2022, hitting just .217 with a .633 OPS (83 OPS+) in 467 plate appearances. After leading the league with 42 doubles and hitting 16 homers in 2021, his slugging percentage dropped to .361 in 2022.<\/p>\n

He bounced back in 2023, hitting .251 with an .807 OPS (119 OPS+) in 576 plate appearances between the Nationals and Cubs. He totaled 22 home runs and 39 doubles.<\/p>\n

That production earned him a three-year, $45 million deal with the Cincinnati Reds<\/a> that went south almost immediately.<\/p>\n

Candelario hit .207 with a .660 OPS (76 OPS+) in 554 plate appearances over two seasons, and the Reds paid about $22.5 million to release him<\/a> last summer rather than reinstate him from the injured list. <\/p>\n

Candelario latched on with the New York Yankees on a minor-league deal<\/a> but never got a call-up. Now he\u2019ll try to hit his way back to the big leagues with the Angels. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT — Former Detroit Tigers infielder Jeimer Candelario has signed a minor-league deal with the Los Angeles Angels,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-447027","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\/447027","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=447027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}