{"id":575985,"date":"2026-02-16T18:46:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/575985\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T18:46:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:46:31","slug":"ex-toronto-blue-jays-infielder-santiago-espinal-joins-los-angeles-dodgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/575985\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Toronto Blue Jays infielder Santiago Espinal joins Los Angeles Dodgers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/toronto-blue-jays\/238\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/toronto-blue-jays\/238\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> infielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/santiago-espinal\/918188\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/santiago-espinal\/918188\" target=\"_blank\">Santiago Espinal<\/a> is joining the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/los-angeles-dodgers\/243\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/los-angeles-dodgers\/243\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> on a minor-league deal, according to Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ardaya adds Espinal will attend Dodgers\u2019 big-league camp.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Dodgers signed Santiago Espinal. Infield depth.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabian Ardaya (@FabianArdaya) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabianArdaya\/status\/2023451292929286275?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 31-year-old is coming off a difficult 2025 with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/cincinnati-reds\/241\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/cincinnati-reds\/241\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Reds<\/a> where he slashed .243\/.292\/.282 with zero home runs and 16 RBI in 114 games played.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Espinal spent four seasons with the Blue Jays from 2020 to 2023, making the All-Star Team in 2022. He then spent the next two seasons in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Blue Jays dealt him to the Reds toward the tail end of spring training in 2024 in exchange for minor-league pitcher Chris McElvain. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Espinal is a career .261 hitter in 578 regular season MLB games.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Toronto Blue Jays infielder Santiago Espinal is joining the Los Angeles Dodgers on a minor-league deal, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[30173,5,377,2554,54499,4,75517,282,70,2553],"class_list":{"0":"post-575985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-blue-jays","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-blue-jays","11":"tag-bluejays","12":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-243","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-santiago-espinal-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-918188","15":"tag-toronto","16":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","17":"tag-torontobluejays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116081799290437291","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575985","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=575985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}