{"id":324288,"date":"2025-12-03T05:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/324288\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T05:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:14:10","slug":"report-jays-land-kbo-mvp-cody-ponce-on-3-year-30m-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/324288\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Jays land KBO MVP Cody Ponce on 3-year, $30M deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Blue Jays and right-hander Cody Ponce are finalizing a three-year, $30-million contract, sources told <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/1996001377848307801\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jeff Passan of ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ponce went 17-1 with a 1.89 ERA, 0.94 WHIP, and 12.6 K\/9 across 180 2\/3 innings (29 starts) for the Hanwha Eagles en route to being named the 2025 KBO MVP. He also won the award for the top starting pitcher in Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old set a KBO single-game record with 18 strikeouts on May 17. His 252 strikeouts this year were a new single-season mark for the league.<\/p>\n<p>Ponce last pitched in MLB during the 2021 season for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He owns a 5.86 ERA with a 1.54 WHIP and 7.8 K\/9 over 55 1\/3 innings in the majors.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays have now dished out $240 million for starting pitchers in free agency after landing Dylan Cease in late November.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Cody Ponce deal is pending a physical and will be for $30 million over three years.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Jays&#8217; rotation options include:<br \/>Kevin Gausman<br \/>Dylan Cease<br \/>Shane Bieber<br \/>Trey Yesavage<br \/>Jose Berrios<br \/>Cody Ponce<br \/>Eric Lauer<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Nicholson-Smith (@bnicholsonsmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bnicholsonsmith\/status\/1996005766403125652?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 2, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ponce and former Blue Jays left-hander Hyun Jin Ryu were teammates in Korea.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Blue Jays and right-hander Cody Ponce are finalizing a three-year, $30-million contract, sources told Jeff Passan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-324288","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\/324288","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=324288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}