{"id":889198,"date":"2026-09-12T09:30:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T09:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/889198\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T09:30:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T09:30:44","slug":"kbos-nc-dinos-sign-mike-clevinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/889198\/","title":{"rendered":"KBO’s NC Dinos Sign Mike Clevinger"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NC Dinos of the Korea Baseball Organization announced they\u2019ve signed right-hander\u00a0Mike Clevinger<\/a> (h\/t to Dan Kurtz of MyKBO.net<\/a>). It\u2019s a six-week deal as an injury replacement for righty Curtis Taylor<\/a>. Clevinger, an ACES client, will be paid $75K. Taylor, who has a 4.78 ERA across 23 starts on the season, reportedly<\/a> injured his shoulder this week.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the first KBO stint for the 35-year-old Clevinger. He has been in affiliated ball going back to his 2011 draft year. Clevinger pitched in the majors as recently as 2025, surrendering five runs across 5 2\/3 innings for the White Sox. He joined the Pirates on an offseason minor league deal but lost most of the first half to injury.<\/p>\n

Clevinger worked in a relief role for Pittsburgh\u2019s top farm team in Indianapolis. He pitched 24 2\/3 innings of 4.74 ERA ball with average strikeout and walk marks. Clevinger triggered an opt-out a few weeks ago and was granted his release. He\u2019ll parlay that into some guaranteed money while trying to help the Dinos erase a three-game deficit for the KBO\u2019s final playoff spot.<\/p>\n

A veteran of parts of nine MLB seasons, Clevinger has a career 3.55 ERA at the highest level. His success came mostly during his early run in Cleveland, as his swing-and-miss stuff never really returned after 2020 Tommy John surgery. While it\u2019s unlikely Clevinger will have enough time to turn his KBO audition into a big league deal this offseason, a strong showing could open additional opportunities in Asia or more robust minor league interest for the 2027 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NC Dinos of the Korea Baseball Organization announced they\u2019ve signed right-hander\u00a0Mike Clevinger (h\/t to Dan Kurtz of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,458850,591,85],"class_list":["post-889198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mike-clevinger","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889198","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=889198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}