{"id":396527,"date":"2026-01-07T02:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T02:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/396527\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T02:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T02:12:11","slug":"reliever-kirby-yates-finalizes-5-million-1-year-deal-with-los-angeles-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/396527\/","title":{"rendered":"Reliever Kirby Yates finalizes $5 million, 1-year deal with Los Angeles Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Reliever Kirby Yates finalized to a $5 million, one-year deal with the Los Angeles Angels<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

A 38-year-old right-hander, Yates flopped last season with the crosstown Dodgers<\/a>. He did not pitch after Sept. 20 after straining his right hamstring, an injury that also sidelined him between May 17 and June 8.<\/p>\n

Yates is technically making a return the Angels, who employed him for one major league appearance in 2017 after claiming him off waivers from the Yankees<\/a>. Yates subsequently joined the San Diego Padres<\/a> and enjoyed the longest sustained success of his career before bouncing to Atlanta, Texas and the Dodgers over the past three seasons.<\/p>\n

The veteran is rejoining Mike Maddux, the pitching coach who oversaw Yates’ All-Star performance in 2024 while both were with the Rangers. Yates went 7-2 with a 1.17 ERA, an 0.83 WHIP and 85 strikeouts in 61 innings for Texas.<\/p>\n

Yates still earned a World Series<\/a> ring last season after agreeing to a $13 million, one-year deal with the Dodgers, but he spent three stints on the injured list and produced only a 5.23 ERA before failing to get on the postseason roster in the Dodgers’ struggling bullpen.<\/p>\n

Yates is 30-24 with a 3.36 ERA, a 1.13 WHIP and 98 saves in 472 relief appearances over 11 major league seasons with Tampa Bay (2014-15), the Yankees (2016), the Angels, San Diego (2017-20), Atlanta (2022-23), Texas (2024) and the Dodgers. He led the major leagues with 41 saves in 2019.<\/p>\n

He had Tommy John surgery twice, in 2006 while in college and after getting hurt during spring training in 2021 with Toronto.<\/p>\n

He is the latest addition to the Angels’ overhauled pitching staff, joining new relievers Jordan Romano<\/a> and Drew Pomeranz<\/a>. The Halos also took low-cost fliers on Grayson Rodriguez<\/a> and Alek Manoah<\/a>, two once-promising starters whose careers were derailed in recent years.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Reliever Kirby Yates finalized to a $5 million, one-year deal with the Los Angeles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-396527","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\/396527","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=396527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}