Freddie Freeman key signing Heyward on Dodgers

In early December of last year, the dodgers they reached an agreement with the veteran patrolman Jason Hewardwith a minor league contract and an invitation to spring training, where he will have a chance to fight for a spot on the Major League roster.

A month after this pact, it came to light that Freddy Freemana close friend and former teammate of Heyward’s with the Atlanta Braves, advocated for him at Dodgers for the team to sign him. “He’s got a little chip on his shoulder. I know he wants to come in and compete for a job.” Said the starting first baseman for the Dodgers regarding what he thinks of the 33-year-old outfielder.

Freeman and Heyward have known each other since they were 16 years old, when they joined the “Georgia Tribe” and played branch games together until making it to the Big Top in 2010.

Heyward left Atlanta after the 2014 season for the St. Louis Cardinals organization, where he only played one year. The following season (2016), he joined the Chicago Cubs and was champion of the World Series with which the team from the windy city ended a drought of more than 100 years without lifting the trophy.

Jason Heyward spent his last seven seasons with the Cubs, signing with him for eight seasons and $184 million before the 2016 season. However, Chicago released him in the final year of his contract in November after announcing he would not return. to the team by 2023.

ismael hernandez

I have graduated from the Autonomous University of Guadalajara since 2012, graduated as a Bachelor of Communication Sciences. After having been a radio host for a few years in the “Perla Tapatía”, I returned to my hometown, Mazatlán, Sinaloa and was hired by Periódico El Debate in May 2019. My first months in El Debate were writing articles for the vertical: “Mi Bolsillo”, however, in September of the same year I became part of the powerful lineup of “Al Bat”, where I still continue to work as a web journalist. In “Al Bat”, we truthfully reveal to our readers the most relevant news in the world of baseball, mainly from the MLB, winter leagues from Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and the Asian continent. I am a fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League and the Boston Red Sox in the American League. My big dream is to see the Fenway Park stadium, the historic site of the “Red Sox”.

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