{"id":555817,"date":"2026-02-05T10:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/555817\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T10:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:10:16","slug":"padres-sign-miguel-andujar-on-1-year-4-million-deal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/555817\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres sign Miguel Andujar on 1-year, $4 million deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Baseball insider Jon Heyman has reported the San Diego Padres and outfielder Miguel Andujar have agreed on a one-year, $4 million deal. The 31-year-old can earn $2 million more if he reaches performance bonuses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The move bolsters the Padres\u2019 bench with a proven right-handed stick. Andujar joins the mix as a candidate for the right-handed designated hitter role. Also, he can provide much-needed depth at the corner outfield positions and third base.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">He has played nine major league seasons with four teams (New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, The Athletics, and Cincinnati Reds). Andujar has a career .282 batting average with 53 HR and 223 RBI in 467 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Andujar made his major league debut with the Yankees in 2018. The third baseman had an outstanding season, as he batted .297 with 27 HR and 97 RBI in 149 games. He finished second in the Rookie of the Year award to Los Angeles Angels Shohei Ohtani, who won by a landslide vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After struggling to match his rookie season production, Andujar had a resurgent 2025 campaign with the Athletics and Reds. He hit a combined .318 with 10 HR and 44 RBI in 94 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For the Friars, the acquisition is a low-risk, high-reward option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baseball insider Jon Heyman has reported the San Diego Padres and outfielder Miguel Andujar have agreed on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2407],"tags":[5,4,43,137,18,58744,2231,2230,4339,4338],"class_list":{"0":"post-555817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego-padres","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-padres","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-san-diego-padres","13":"tag-san-diego-padres-breaking-news","14":"tag-san-diego-padres-analysis-commentary","15":"tag-san-diego-padres-news","16":"tag-sandiego","17":"tag-sandiegopadres"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116017484504102217","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555817","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=555817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}