{"id":357471,"date":"2025-12-19T03:46:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T03:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/357471\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T03:46:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T03:46:29","slug":"caleb-ferguson-reds-finalize-1-year-4-5-million-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/357471\/","title":{"rendered":"Caleb Ferguson, Reds finalize 1-year, $4.5 million contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI &#8212; Left-hander <a data-player-guid=\"e9899e53-ce21-c92e-a4ea-3d12347c0c90\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41017\/caleb-ferguson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caleb Ferguson<\/a> and the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"04b65a0b-3cca-d795-0e21-23606470418a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/cin\/cincinnati-reds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Reds<\/a> finalized a one-year, $4.5 million contract Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old was 5-4 with a 3.58 ERA in a career-high 70 games last season 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> and <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"56d60582-088f-6848-5180-1fb04440cf87\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/sea\/seattle-mariners\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Mariners<\/a>, who acquired him July 30 for minor league right-hander Jeter Martinez. Ferguson&#8217;s strikeouts per nine innings dropped from 11.1 to 7.0.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson is 24-17 with a 3.66 ERA and six saves over seven seasons with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"fb7cf413-5156-9fc2-abe0-2273b89f70db\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/lad\/los-angeles-dodgers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> (2018-23), <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"2b9cedf3-ce60-0bcf-fafe-8cd055255685\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/nyy\/new-york-yankees\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Yankees<\/a> (2024), <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"00a3015f-09ec-1b03-52af-656f5e0a18d5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/hou\/houston-astros\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Astros<\/a> (2024), Pirates and Mariners.<\/p>\n<p>He had Tommy John surgery in 2014 and again in September 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson did not allow a hit in his first 10 postseason appearances.<\/p>\n<p>He had a one-year, $3 million contract this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI &#8212; Left-hander Caleb Ferguson and the Cincinnati Reds finalized a one-year, $4.5 million contract Thursday. The 29-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-357471","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\/357471","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=357471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}