{"id":261852,"date":"2025-11-04T20:53:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/261852\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T20:53:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:53:13","slug":"pitcher-keegan-thompson-and-reds-agree-to-1-3-million-one-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/261852\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitcher Keegan Thompson and Reds agree to $1.3 million, one-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Right-hander Keegan Thompson and the Cincinnati Reds agreed Tuesday to a one-year contract that pays $1.3 million while in the major leagues and $350,000 while in the minors.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson can earn a maximum of $100,000 in performance bonuses, with the opportunity in several categories to reach that level. He would get $10,000 each for 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 and 70 games pitched; 25, 35, 45, 55, 65, 75, 100 and 120 innings; and six, eight, 10, 12 and 14 starts.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>A 30-year-old right-hander, Thompson was 6-2 with a 4.50 ERA in five starts and 28 relief appearances for the Chicago Cubs&#8217; Triple-A team in Iowa and became a free agent last month.<\/p>\n<p>He pitched for the Cubs from 2021-24, going 17-11 with a 3.64 ERA in 23 starts and 81 relief appearances.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Right-hander Keegan Thompson and the Cincinnati Reds agreed Tuesday to a one-year contract that pays&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,508,3983,121291,462,121292,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-261852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-chicago-cubs","11":"tag-cincinnati-reds","12":"tag-keegan-thompson","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-performance-bonuses","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}