{"id":559488,"date":"2026-02-07T12:07:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T12:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/559488\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T12:07:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T12:07:21","slug":"red-soxs-tsung-che-cheng-goes-to-boston-via-waivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/559488\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox&#8217;s Tsung-Che Cheng: Goes to Boston via waivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/BOS\/boston-red-sox\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/303.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/BOS\/boston-red-sox\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Red Sox<\/a> claimed <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/28842581\/cheng\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cheng<\/a> off waivers from the Nationals on Friday, Gabrielle Starr of the Boston Herald reports.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the fifth organization Cheng has been in this offseason, as he has been bouncing around all winter via waivers. The 24-year-old went hitless in seven plate appearances during a cup of coffee in the majors and slashed only .209\/.307\/.271 at Triple-A Indianapolis in the Pirates organization last season, but he&#8217;s known for a reliable infield glove.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Red Sox claimed Cheng off waivers from the Nationals on Friday, Gabrielle Starr of the Boston Herald&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,28,4,89,2543,65019],"class_list":{"0":"post-559488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-red-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-red-sox","11":"tag-bostonredsox","12":"tag-fantasy-baseball","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-red-sox","15":"tag-redsox","16":"tag-tsung-che-cheng"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116029269897827201","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559488","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=559488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}