{"id":596781,"date":"2023-01-12T07:18:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/12\/san-diego-padres-dh-nelson-cruz-agree-to-1-year-deal\/"},"modified":"2023-01-12T07:18:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T13:18:00","slug":"san-diego-padres-dh-nelson-cruz-agree-to-1-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/12\/san-diego-padres-dh-nelson-cruz-agree-to-1-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Padres, DH Nelson Cruz agree to 1-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Washington Nationals designated hitter Nelson Cruz hit .234 with 10 home runs and 64 RBIs last season. File Photo by Bill Greenblatt\/UPI | License Photo<\/a><\/p>\n

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Jan. 12 (UPI) —<\/span> Veteran designated hitter Nelson Cruz<\/a> and the San Diego Padres<\/a> agreed to a one-year deal, injecting another powerful bat into a potent lineup.<\/p>\n

Sources told ESPN<\/a>, The Athletic<\/a> and MLB.com<\/a> about the $1 million pact Thursday night. The seven-time All-Star hit .234 with 10 home runs and 64 RBIs in 124 games last season for the Washington Nationals<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

Cruz, 42, owns a .274 batting average, with 459 home runs over his 18-year MLB tenure. He made his MLB debut in 2005 for the Milwaukee Brewers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Las Matas de Santa Cruz, Dominican Republic, native also spent time with the Texas Rangers<\/a>, Baltimore Orioles<\/a>, Seattle Mariners<\/a>, Minnesota Twins<\/a> and Tampa Bay Rays<\/a>. Cruz led MLB with 40 home runs in 2014. He finished inside the Top 10 in MVP voting in five seasons.<\/p>\n

Cruz made his last All-Star appearance in 2021. He hit .265 with 32 home runs that season, which he split between the Twins and Rays.\n<\/p>\n

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Former Washington Nationals designated hitter Nelson Cruz hit .234 with 10 home runs and 64 RBIs last season. File Photo by Bill Greenblatt\/UPI | License Photo Jan. 12 (UPI) — Veteran designated hitter Nelson Cruz and the San Diego Padres agreed to a one-year deal, injecting another powerful bat into a potent lineup. Sources told […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":596782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1699,534,33397],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-596781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-diego","8":"category-financial","9":"category-padres"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}