{"id":115008,"date":"2025-06-09T01:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T01:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/115008\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T01:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T01:55:11","slug":"giants-trade-struggling-1b-of-lamonte-wade-jr-to-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/115008\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants trade struggling 1B\/OF LaMonte Wade Jr. to Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/16700271\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ESPN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/origin-espn.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Monday, June 9, 2025 1:18AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">ANAHEIM, Calif. &#8212; The <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/laa\/los-angeles-angels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Los Angeles Angels<\/a> acquired veteran first baseman and outfielder <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/37798\/lamonte-wade-jr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LaMonte Wade Jr.<\/a> and cash from the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/sf\/san-francisco-giants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">San Francisco Giants<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Angels will send cash or a player to be named to San Francisco for the 31-year-old Wade, who had been with the Giants since 2021. The team designated him for assignment Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Los Angeles right-hander <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5137265\/michael-darrell-hicks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michael Darrell-Hicks<\/a> was designated for assignment to make room on the 40-man roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Wade batted .167 with one homer and 15 RBIs for the Giants this season, his struggles culminating with a 2-for-17 performance on the team&#8217;s most recent road trip. Wade hit a career-high .260 last season, and he gained a reputation in San Francisco for clutch late-game performances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Angels currently have <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4739755\/nolan-schanuel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nolan Schanuel<\/a> at first base and six outfielders on their major league roster, but some have position flexibility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Angels general manager Perry Minasian and Giants general manager Zack Minasian are brothers.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, June 9, 2025 1:18AM ANAHEIM, Calif. &#8212; The Los Angeles Angels acquired veteran first baseman and outfielder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[28587,12,7,519,28299,6060,1917,56,88,2321,2469,6,16517,28586],"class_list":{"0":"post-115008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-28587","9":"tag-espn","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-giants","12":"tag-los-angeles-angels","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-giants","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkgiants","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-san-francisco-giants","21":"tag-wade-jr-lamonte"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114650921399430701","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}