{"id":444032,"date":"2025-11-22T01:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T01:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/444032\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T01:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T01:57:10","slug":"rockies-sign-drew-avans-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/444032\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies Sign Drew Avans To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rockies recently added outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/a\/avansdr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-21_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Drew Avans<\/a> on a minor league deal, as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/stories\/minor-league-transactions-nov-7-18-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Matt Eddy of Baseball America<\/a> pointed out. Avans played a handful of games for the Athletics last season. He was most recently in the Brewers\u2019 system. Avans <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/11\/players-electing-minor-league-free-agency.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">elected<\/a> minor league free agency in early November.<\/p>\n<p>Avans made his MLB debut in May following a lengthy minor league career. He came on as a defensive replacement and singled in his only at-bat. Avans made seven appearances with the Athletics, recording a pair of hits in 15 at-bats. He was designated for assignment in early June and picked up by the Brewers. Avans played one game for the team, going 0-for-2 with a sacrifice fly. He was designated for assignment and outrighted to Triple-A shortly after.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers took Avans in the 33rd round in 2018. He\u2019d spent his entire career with the organization prior to 2025. Avans moved up the system fairly quickly, reaching Double-A by 2019. He posted a 114 wRC+ with 24 steals across three levels that season. Avans was bumped up to Triple-A in 2021, where his results plateaued. He continued to steal bases at a solid clip, including 40 swipes in 2022, but delivered roughly league-average numbers at the plate. Avans elected minor league free agency after the 2024 season and latched on with the Athletics.<\/p>\n<p>Avans slashed a strong .328\/.414\/.444 across 48 games with Triple-A Las Vegas to open this past season. More notably, he reduced his strikeout rate to 14%. Avans had multiple Triple-A seasons with a strikeout rate above 25% while in LA\u2019s system. The solid stretch with Las Vegas earned Avans a look with the Athletics, though he only lasted on the big-league roster for a little over a week. His strikeout rate went back up to 24.3% in 52 games at Triple-A Nashville. Avans did manage 40 steals between Las Vegas and Nashville, so there\u2019s a chance his speed could help him become a factor in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of Jeff Hanisch, Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rockies recently added outfielder Drew Avans on a minor league deal, as\u00a0Matt Eddy of Baseball America pointed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2405],"tags":[5,167,52,4316,16593,4,168],"class_list":{"0":"post-444032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-rockies","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-colorado","10":"tag-colorado-rockies","11":"tag-coloradorockies","12":"tag-drew-avans","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-rockies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115590872874151217","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}