{"id":500078,"date":"2026-02-13T14:40:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T18:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/jesus-sanchez-is-traded-to-toronto-in-exchange-for-sending-joey-loperfido-to-houston\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T14:40:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T18:40:35","slug":"jesus-sanchez-is-traded-to-toronto-in-exchange-for-sending-joey-loperfido-to-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/sports\/baseball\/jesus-sanchez-is-traded-to-toronto-in-exchange-for-sending-joey-loperfido-to-houston\/","title":{"rendered":"Jes\u00fas S\u00e1nchez is traded to Toronto in exchange for sending Joey Loperfido to Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\nUnited States - The <strong>Toronto Blue Jays<\/strong> acquired Dominican outfielder <strong>Jes\u00fas S\u00e1nchez<\/strong> from the <strong>Houston Astros<\/strong> in exchange for fellow outfielder <strong>Joey Loperfido<\/strong>, in a move made official on Friday.\n\nYou may be interested in: R<a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/beisbol\/rob-manfred-ve-posible-presencia-de-jugadores-de-mlb-en-beisbol-olimpico-de-los-angeles-2028\/\">ob Manfred sees possible presence of MLB players in Olympic baseball in Los Angeles 2028<\/a>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/category\/deportes\/beisbol\/\">Baseball<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nS\u00e1nchez, 28 years old, participated in 134 games during the 2025 season with the <strong>Miami Marlins<\/strong> and Houston, recording a batting average of .237, an on-base percentage of .304 and a slugging percentage of .395, as well as 14 home runs, 48 RBIs and 13 stolen bases. Defensively, he accumulated seven Defensive Runs Saved in the outfield.\n\nThe player, originally from <strong>Hig\u00fcey<\/strong>, was originally signed by the <strong>Tampa Bay Rays<\/strong> as an international free agent in 2014 and debuted in the Major Leagues in 2020. In six MLB seasons, he has an offensive line of .239\/.307\/.420 with 73 home runs and 238 RBIs in 580 games.\n\nFor his part, Loperfido, 26, played in 2025 between Toronto and the Triple-A team <strong>Buffalo Bisons<\/strong>. In 41 games in the Major Leagues, he batted .333 with an OPS of .879, while in the minor league he recorded an OPS of .742 in 91 matches. The lefty debuted in MLB with Houston in 2024 and has a lifetime average of .248 with 39 RBIs in 122 games between both franchises.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States &#8211; The Toronto Blue Jays acquired Dominican outfielder Jes\u00fas S\u00e1nchez from the Houston Astros in exchange for fellow outfielder Joey Loperfido, in a move made official on Friday. You may be interested in: Rob Manfred sees possible presence of MLB players in Olympic baseball in Los Angeles 2028 Baseball S\u00e1nchez, 28 years old, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35481],"tags":[611,40231,40813,13766,40853],"class_list":{"0":"post-500078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-baseball","7":"tag-deultimominuto","8":"tag-dominican-republic","9":"tag-major-leagues","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-thetruthnewspaper"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Baseball"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}