{"id":474181,"date":"2026-02-17T17:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/474181\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T17:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:11:10","slug":"report-red-sox-fan-favorite-signs-minor-league-deal-with-braves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/474181\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Red Sox fan favorite signs minor league deal with Braves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dom Smith<\/a> will try to earn a spot on the Braves<\/a>\u2019 Opening Day roster after he signed a minor league deal with Atlanta on Tuesday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution\u2019s Chad Bishop reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Smith<\/a> will be a non-roster invitee in spring training. <\/p>\n

The 30-year-old spent the 2024 season with the Red Sox <\/a>and the Cincinnati Reds. During his time in Boston, Smith quickly became well-liked<\/a> among fans. But once Triston Casas was activated from the injured list, the Red Sox designated Smith<\/a> for assignment before ultimately releasing him.<\/a><\/p>\n

Four days later Smith signed a major-league deal with the Reds<\/a>. He played in nine games and batted .192 with five hits and four runs.<\/p>\n

Smith had some big moments with the Red Sox and provided some consistency at first base when Casas was sidelined for a chunk of the season with a rib injury. In 83 games (69 starts), Smith hit .237 with six home runs, 20 doubles and a .706 OPS.<\/p>\n

Smith also threw three shutout innings<\/a> for the Red Sox and gave up two hits.<\/p>\n

Smith spent 2025 with the San Francisco Giants and appeared in 63 games and slashed .284\/.333\/.417.<\/p>\n

The path for Smith to have playing time with the Braves is a bit blocked. Matt Olson is Atlanta\u2019s first baseman, and a rotation of Jurickson Profar, Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr.,Mike Yastrzemski and Michael Harris II make up the outfielder and designated hitter role. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dom Smith will try to earn a spot on the Braves\u2019 Opening Day roster after he signed a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-474181","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\/474181","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=474181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}