Former Los Angeles Angels infielder Luis Rengifo has agreed to terms on a one-year, $3.5 million contract with the Milwaukee Brewers, according to a person familiar with the situation.
The person spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because the deal hasn’t been announced. Rengifo’s contract also includes a $10 million mutual option for 2027.
MLB.com first reported that Rengifo was joining the Brewers.
Rengifo, who turns 29 on Feb. 26, had spent his entire seven-year major league career with the Angels.
He batted .238 with a .287 on-base percentage, with nine homers, 43 RBIs and 10 steals last season while producing career highs in games played (147) and at-bats (541). That followed a 2024 season in which he batted .300 with a .347 on-base percentage, six homers, 30 RBIs and 24 steals in 78 games.
Rengifo becomes a candidate to take over at third base following the Monday trade of Caleb Durbin to Boston in a six-player deal that also sent infielders Andruw Monasterio and Anthony Seigler to the Red Sox. The Brewers acquired left-handed pitchers Kyle Harrison and Shane Drohan as well as infielder David Hamilton in that trade.
The versatile Rengifo has played 409 games at second base, 199 at third, 97 at shortstop and 51 in the outfield during his career. Last season, Rengifo played 76 games at third base and 74 at second while also making occasional appearances in the outfield.
Milwaukee lacked a proven third basemen after Monday’s trade.
Joey Ortiz was Milwaukee's starting third baseman in 2024 but moved over to shortstop last season. Hamilton played one game at third base last year but primarily has worked at second base and shortstop.
Jett Williams, one of the players Milwaukee acquired in a Jan. 21 trade that sent two-time All-Star pitcher Freddy Peralta to the New York Mets, is expected to get some reps at third base during spring training. Williams has played second base, shortstop and the outfield in the Mets organization.
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FILE - Los Angeles Angels' Luis Rengifo (2) smiles as he walks toward the dugout after the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Houston Astros Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong,File)
NEW YORK (AP) — A second suspect in the stray-bullet killing of a 7-month-old baby on a Brooklyn street was arrested Friday, police said, two days after a shooting the police commissioner called “a tragedy that truly shocks the conscience.”
Matthew Rodriguez, 18, was apprehended in Pennsylvania by New York Police Department detectives working with U.S. Marshals, the NYPD said.
The suspected shooter, 21-year-old Amuri Greene, was arrested shortly after the drive-by gunfire that killed Kaori Patterson-Moore. Greene pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges at an arraignment Friday night.
Kaori was in her stroller when a two men sped down a street on a moped Wednesday afternoon. Greene, riding on the back of the vehicle, fired into a group of people on a street corner, according to a court complaint.
Kaori's mother, Lianna Charles-Moore, told the New York Post that after hearing what she initially believed were fireworks, she was comforting her startled 2-year-old son — who had been grazed by a bullet — when she looked to her left and saw her baby daughter bleeding. The infant had been shot in the head.
“My daughter was innocent. She didn’t deserve that," Charles-Moore told the newspaper. She said her daughter was just about starting to crawl and had recently begun saying “Mama.”
Greene told police he was aiming for another person in the crowd, according to the court complaint.
Police said the moped sped and crashed into a car two blocks away, hurling both men off the vehicle. Greene was injured and soon was hospitalized in police custody, but the moped driver fled.
Authorities haven't yet released court papers that detail Rodriguez's alleged role. But they haven't indicated they were looking for anyone other than the gunman — alleged to have been Greene — and the moped driver.
Greene was being held without bail after his arraignment. A voice message seeking comment was left with his attorney.
Police didn't immediately have information on how the men are connected or where Rodriguez lives; no working telephone number for him could immediately be found. Police charges against him were pending.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch expressed heartbreak and outrage over Kaori's death.
“This is a terrible day in our city, a tragedy that truly shocks the conscience,” Tisch said at a news briefing Wednesday.
This image taken from video provided by the New York Police Department shows New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, flanked by Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, left, and Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny, speaking during a news conference, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in New York. (NYPD via AP)
