{"id":566518,"date":"2026-02-11T17:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/566518\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T17:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:05:16","slug":"miguel-andujar-and-the-san-diego-padres-finalize-their-4-million-1-year-contract-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/566518\/","title":{"rendered":"Miguel Andujar and the San Diego Padres finalize their $4 million, 1-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">SAN DIEGO (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/miguel-andujar-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miguel Andujar<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/san-diego-padres-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Padres<\/a> on Wednesday finalized their $4 million, one-year contract, a deal that allows him to earn an additional $2.2 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">Andujar gets a $1.5 million salary, and the deal includes an $8 million mutual option for 2027 with a $2.5 million buyout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">His buyout can escalate based on plate appearances: $200,000 each for 200 and 250, $250,000 apiece for 300 and 350, $300,000 for 400, and $500,000 each for 500 and 600.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">Andujar, who turns 30 on March 2, hit .318 with 10 homers and 44 RBIs last year for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/oakland-athletics-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Athletics<\/a> and Cincinnati, which acquired him on July 31 for minor league right-hander Kenya Huggins. An outfielder and third baseman, he had a $3 million salary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">A nine-year major league veteran, Andujar has a .282 batting average with 53 homers and 223 RBIs for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/new-york-yankees-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Yankees<\/a> (2017-22), Pittsburgh (2022-23), the Athletics (2024-25) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/cincinnati-reds-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">Andujar hit .297 with 27 homers and 92 RBIs in 2018, finishing second to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/shohei-ohtani-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shohei Ohtani<\/a> in AL Rookie of the Year voting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">AP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (AP) \u2014 Miguel Andujar and the San Diego Padres on Wednesday finalized their $4 million, one-year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2391],"tags":[537,5,50,19,4808,4,3226,62,18],"class_list":{"0":"post-566518","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-cincinnati-reds","11":"tag-major-league-baseball","12":"tag-miguel-andujar","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-mlb-athletics","15":"tag-new-york-yankees","16":"tag-san-diego-padres"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116053090429539485","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566518","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=566518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}