{"id":323889,"date":"2025-12-03T00:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T00:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/323889\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T00:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T00:49:07","slug":"sources-blue-jays-rhp-cody-ponce-agree-on-3-year-30m-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/323889\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Blue Jays, RHP Cody Ponce agree on 3-year, $30M deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right-hander <a data-player-guid=\"e0f9e93c-c044-c7cf-f101-0018fbe7f1ea\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/34999\/cody-ponce\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cody Ponce<\/a> and the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"0151aed9-9f11-ceae-195d-180ca603b64a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tor\/toronto-blue-jays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> are finalizing a three-year, $30 million contract, pending a physical, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Jeff Passan on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Ponce, 31, is a former 2015 second-round pick who played briefly for the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"5b8fc9be-4020-52c6-aa28-9a0f2d4383e0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/pit\/pittsburgh-pirates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> in 2020 and 2021 before signing overseas. He most recently won MVP of the Korea Baseball Organization after going 17-1 with a 1.89 ERA for the Hanwha Eagles. He struck out 252 in 180\u2154 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Ponce is the latest addition to the pitching staff of the reigning American League champions &#8212; the Blue Jays signed right-hander <a data-player-guid=\"297b8292-2f88-4379-050a-f504caeb60ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/34943\/dylan-cease\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dylan Cease<\/a> to a seven-year, $210 million deal last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Right-hander Cody Ponce and the Toronto Blue Jays are finalizing a three-year, $30 million contract, pending a physical,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-323889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}