{"id":553957,"date":"2026-02-04T09:18:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/553957\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T09:18:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:18:24","slug":"arizona-diamondbacks-to-sign-veteran-first-baseman-carlos-santana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/553957\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Diamondbacks to sign veteran first baseman Carlos Santana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/carlos-santana\/295203\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/carlos-santana\/295203\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Santana<\/a> is remaining in the National League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Athletic\u2019s Ken Rosenthal and Will Sammon report the veteran first baseman has an agreement with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/arizona-diamondbacks\/253\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/arizona-diamondbacks\/253\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Free-agent first baseman Carlos Santana in agreement with Diamondbacks, pending physical, sources tell me and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WillSammon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@WillSammon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/status\/2018790774448828640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The deal for the 39-year-old Santana is pending a physical.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A native of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Santana heads into his 17th big league season. He split 2025 between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/cleveland-guardians\/229\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/cleveland-guardians\/229\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Guardians<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/chicago-cubs\/240\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/chicago-cubs\/240\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Cubs<\/a>. He appeared in a combined 124 games, batting .219 with 11 home runs, 54 runs batted in and an OPS of .633.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An All-Star in 2019, Santana has appeared in 2,204 career games with the Cubs, Guardians, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/minnesota-twins\/233\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/minnesota-twins\/233\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Twins<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/milwaukee-brewers\/232\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/milwaukee-brewers\/232\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Brewers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/pittsburgh-pirates\/247\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/pittsburgh-pirates\/247\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/seattle-mariners\/236\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/seattle-mariners\/236\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Mariners<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/kansas-city-royals\/231\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/kansas-city-royals\/231\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Royals<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/philadelphia-phillies\/246\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/philadelphia-phillies\/246\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Phillies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">For his career, Santana is a .241 hitter with 1,880 hits, 335 home runs, 1,135 runs batted in and an OPS of .777.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Santana\u2019s 335 home runs are 10th-most among active players.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Santana is remaining in the National League. The Athletic\u2019s Ken Rosenthal and Will Sammon report the veteran&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[30173,60586,5,72932,135,51,2565,538,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-553957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-guardians","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-253","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-carlos-santana-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-295203","12":"tag-cleveland","13":"tag-cleveland-guardians","14":"tag-clevelandguardians","15":"tag-guardians","16":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116011617852485146","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553957","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=553957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}