{"id":91395,"date":"2024-12-06T14:52:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T19:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=91395"},"modified":"2024-12-06T14:52:07","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T19:52:07","slug":"rays-sign-highly-sought-jansen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/12\/06\/rays-sign-highly-sought-jansen\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays To Sign Highly Sought After Backstop To One-Year Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Rays have reportedly concluded a one-year deal with star catcher <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/janseda01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Danny Jansen <\/a>worth $8.5 million. The move continues Jansen&#8217;s southern swing from Toronto to Boston, where he ended last season with the Red Sox, to sunny Florida. The short-term deal gives Jansen a well-deserved payday while providing the Rays with a veteran and elite defensive presence behind home plate.<\/p>\n<h2>Rays To Sign Highly Sought After Backstop To One-Year Deal<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Rays, C Danny Jansen are reportedly in agreement on a one-year contract. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AYBf4Zbge7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/AYBf4Zbge7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB Network (@MLBNetwork) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLBNetwork\/status\/1865096859309531478?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jansen, 29, was selected out of high school by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 16th round of the 2013 draft. He was a minor league All-Star in 2017 and 2018 and debuted with the Blue Jays that season.<\/p>\n<p>His first full season came in 2019 when he appeared in 107 games, slashing .207\/.279\/.360 with 13 home runs and 43 RBI. The 2022 campaign proved to be Jansen&#8217;s career-best so far. That year, he hit .260\/.339\/.516 with 15 home runs and 44 RBI in 72 games.<\/p>\n<p>An elite blocking catcher, Jansen, suffered several injuries that sidelined him for parts of the 2022 &#8211; 2024 seasons. He missed a month after fracturing the little finger on his catching hand in 2022. A fracture to the middle finger of his throwing hand sent him to the injured list in September of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>He missed the start of last season after fracturing his right wrist while batting in a Spring Training game in March. In 2021, Jansen shared playing time with Blue Jays newcomer Alejandro Kirk, 26, who ultimately took over the position.<\/p>\n<p>Jansen&#8217;s career slash of .220\/.308\/.419 with 74 home runs and 220 RBI undermines his best pro seasons. From 2021 to 2023, he had an OPS of .772, .855, and .786, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The move to Tampa Bay gives the catcher a chance at a fresh start. The career-high $8.5 million contract is an indication that Tampa Bays front office is betting on his resurgence in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credits: Dan Hamilton-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Rays have reportedly concluded a one-year deal with star catcher Danny Jansen worth $8.5 million. The move continues Jansen&#8217;s southern swing from Toronto to Boston, where he ended last season with the Red Sox, to sunny Florida. The short-term deal gives Jansen a well-deserved payday while providing the Rays with a veteran [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5158,"featured_media":91412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1071],"tags":[68,69,566],"class_list":["post-91395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rays","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-tampa-bay-rays"],"modified_by":"Evan Mazza, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91413,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91395\/revisions\/91413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}