Jorge Soler is the first Cuban change addresses this offseason, being traded to a the Los Angeles Angels, The move took place during yesterday afternoon between the Angels and the Atlanta Braves, the team where the slugger closed the 2024 campaign received pitcher Griffin Canning in the exchange for the outfielder.
For Soler, this season wasn’t as successful as the 2023 season where he hit 36 balls out of the park and drove in 75 runs with the Miami Marlins. Such a stellar campaign earned him a contract in February 2024 with the San Francisco Giants for the sum of 42 million dollars over three years.
In 142 games last year, he hit a middling average of .241 with 84 runs scored, 34 doubles, a triple, 21 home runs, 64 RBIs, 68 walks, but struck out a staggering 141 timea and posted an OPS of .780. For Soler, the Angels will be his sixth franchise in the big leagues .
He previously saw action with the Chicago Cubs (2014-2016), Kansas City Royals (2017-2021), Atlanta Braves (2021, 2024), Miami Marlins (2022-2023) and San Francisco Giants (2024 ). Over his career he has a participated in the All-Star Games (2023), led in home runs in the American League (2019), won two World Series championship rings (2016, 2021) and was also the MVP of the Fall Classic in 2021.
During his 11-year career on the grand stage he hits .243 with 197 doubles, 191 home runs, 516 RBIs and slashed .331/.464/ .794. In the playoffs the slugger has a slash line of .275/.389/.714/1.089, while also going yard seven times and knocking in 12 runs over that same span.