{"id":812007,"date":"2026-07-20T10:14:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T10:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/812007\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T10:14:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T10:14:27","slug":"eagles-sign-ex-mlb-pitcher-zimmermann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/812007\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles sign ex-MLB pitcher Zimmermann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/9dec06c8-67de-442f-9c70-8d664a37bc71.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1280; width: 100%\" alt=\"St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Bruce Zimmermann throws during the third inning in the first game of a baseball doubleheader against the Milwaukee Brewers in St. Louis, July 7. AP-Yonhap\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Bruce Zimmermann throws during the third inning in the first game of a baseball doubleheader against the Milwaukee Brewers in St. Louis, July 7. AP-Yonhap<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The Hanwha Eagles on Monday announced their signing of former major league pitcher Bruce Zimmermann.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The Eagles said Zimmermann, 31, will earn $300,000 in salary for the rest of this Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) season. The left-hander received a signing bonus of $70,000 and can make another $70,000 in incentives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Zimmermann is replacing Wilkel Hernandez, who was released Sunday, in the Eagles&#8217; rotation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Zimmermann has appeared in 40 major league games, including 28 starts, for the Baltimore Orioles, the Milwaukee Brewers and the St. Louis Cardinals. He has a career 8-11 win-loss record with a 5.63 ERA over 169 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The Eagles said Zimmermann has an excellent command of every pitch in his arsenal, with the left-hander featuring a four-seam fastball, a slider, a forkball, a sinker, a cutter and a curveball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">In 2026, Zimmermann made one big league outing in relief for the Cardinals and logged 15 starts for their Triple-A team in Memphis, going 5-3 with a 3.78 ERA in 78 2\/3 frames in the minors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The Eagles, runners-up in the 2025 Korean Series, are in sixth place with a 40-43-3 (wins-losses-ties) record, four games back of the fifth and final postseason spot occupied by the Doosan Bears. The Eagles have lost three straight games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Bruce Zimmermann throws during the third inning in the first game of a baseball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-812007","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\/812007","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=812007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}