{"id":458972,"date":"2026-02-05T00:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T00:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/458972\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T00:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T00:45:08","slug":"sources-isiah-kiner-falefa-reaches-1-year-deal-with-red-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/458972\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Isiah Kiner-Falefa reaches 1-year deal with Red Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"

Utility player Isiah Kiner-Falefa<\/a> and the Boston Red Sox<\/a> are in agreement on a one-year contract, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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Kiner-Falefa, who has played shortstop, third base and outfield, was most recently a member of the Toronto Blue Jays<\/a>, appearing in 19 regular-season games and another 15 in the playoffs for the World Series runner-ups.<\/p>\n

He started the 2025 season with the Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a>, who acquired him — from Toronto — at the 2024 trade deadline. All together, Kiner-Falefa played in 138 games in 2025, batting .262 with 2 home runs, 40 RBIs and 45 runs scored. He also stole 15 bases<\/p>\n

A nine-year veteran who has also played for the Texas Rangers<\/a> and New York Yankees<\/a>, Kiner-Falefa signed \u200b\u200ba two-year, $15 million contract with Toronto ahead of the 2024 season. He played 83 games for the Blue Jays that season before he was traded to Pittsburgh on July 30, 2024.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Utility player Isiah Kiner-Falefa and the Boston Red Sox are in agreement on a one-year contract, sources told…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-458972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458972","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=458972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}