{"id":496060,"date":"2025-12-28T00:35:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T00:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/496060\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T00:35:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T00:35:15","slug":"jj-bleday-reds-reportedly-agree-to-free-agent-contract-nbc-sports-bay-area-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/496060\/","title":{"rendered":"JJ Bleday, Reds reportedly agree to free-agent contract \u2013 NBC Sports Bay Area &#038; California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bledajj01.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JJ Bleday<\/a>&#8216;s days in the Green and Gold are over.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old outfielder reportedly has agreed on a free-agent contract with the Cincinnati Reds, FanSided&#8217;s Robert Murray first reported Saturday morning, citing sources.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sources: Free-agent outfielder JJ Bleday and the Cincinnati Reds are in agreement on a contract. Bleday, 28, was the No. 4 overall pick in the 2019 draft and has spent time in the majors with the Marlins and A\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Robert Murray (@ByRobertMurray) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByRobertMurray\/status\/2004936372088701009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As Murray notes, Bleday was the No. 4 overall pick in the 2019 MLB Draft. He spent the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/mlb\/athletics\/newcomer-bleday-happy-to-be-with-as-after-blindside-trade\/1462464\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">past three seasons<\/a> with the Athletics.<\/p>\n<p>Over his Athletics tenure, Bleday hit 44 home runs with a .723 OPS from the 2023 to 2025 seasons. He struggled a bit last season after a promising 2024 campaign, slashing .212\/.294\/.404 for a .698 OPS with 14 homers.<\/p>\n<p>The Athletics DFA&#8217;d Bleday in November, the first indication that his time with the team was nearing an end.<\/p>\n<p>Now he&#8217;ll get a fresh start in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JJ Bleday&#8216;s days in the Green and Gold are over. The 28-year-old outfielder reportedly has agreed on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[537,5,1952,4,3226,3411],"class_list":{"0":"post-496060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athletics","8":"tag-athletics","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-jj-bleday","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-mlb-athletics","13":"tag-mlb-rumors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115794393381611464","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496060","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=496060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}