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Diamondbacks, Gregor Blanco Agree To Minors Deal

Longtime Giants outfielder Gregor Blanco has agreed to a minor league contract with an invitation to Major League Spring Training, Blanco’s agent, Wil Polidor, tells Manolo Hernandez of BeisbolPorGotas.com (Twitter link).

Just this afternoon, Blanco had been linked to the Tigers, but it instead appears that he’ll remain in the NL West and compete for a backup job with the D-backs. Arizona is slated to deploy David Peralta, A.J. Pollock and Yasmany Tomas in the outfield. Jeremy Hazelbaker is the current favorite to open the season as the fourth outfielder under new manager Torey Lovullo, though the veteran Blanco could certainly give him a run for that roster spot in Spring Training.