{"id":357557,"date":"2025-12-19T04:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T04:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/357557\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T04:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T04:40:08","slug":"sources-padres-rhp-michael-king-agree-to-3-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/357557\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Padres, RHP Michael King agree to 3-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Right-hander Michael King<\/a> and the San Diego Padres<\/a> are in agreement on a three-year, $75 million contract, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The deal allows King to opt out after the 2026 and 2027 seasons.<\/p>\n

King was limited to 15 starts for the Padres in 2025, missing about half the season because of a knee injury and a nerve issue in his right shoulder, going 5-3 with a 3.44 ERA and 76 strikeouts in 73 1\/3 innings pitched.<\/p>\n

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The 30-year-old right-hander, who relies on his sinker and changeup, still showed flashes of what stood out in his first season in San Diego, when he posted a 3.9 WAR and a 2.95 ERA in 173 2\/3 innings in 30 starts during the 2024 season. He finished seventh in Cy Young Award voting that year.<\/p>\n

The big difference between the two seasons, however, was his four-seam fastball gave up way more damage than it did in 2024, going from a .402 slugging percentage allowed to .814.<\/p>\n

He was tendered a $22.025 million qualifying offer by the Padres, which he declined by the Nov. 18 deadline.<\/p>\n

King spent his first five MLB seasons with the New York Yankees<\/a>, and he has a 31-29 record with a 3.24 ERA and 559 strikeouts.<\/p>\n

The news was first reported by MLB.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Right-hander Michael King and the San Diego Padres are in agreement on a three-year, $75 million contract, sources…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-357557","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\/357557","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=357557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}