{"id":324386,"date":"2025-12-04T07:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/324386\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T07:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:39:08","slug":"tcincinnati-reds-closer-emilio-pagan-returns-on-20-million-2-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/324386\/","title":{"rendered":"tCincinnati Reds closer Emilio Pag\u00e1n returns on $20 million, 2-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Free agent closer Emilio Pag\u00e1n has agreed to return to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/cincinnati-reds\/241\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/cincinnati-reds\/241\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Reds<\/a> on a $20 million, two-year contract, two people familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The people spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the deal was pending a physical and had not been announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Pag\u00e1n would have the right to opt out of the contract after the 2026 season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 34-year-old right-hander became the Reds\u2019 closer early last season and went 2-4 with a 2.88 ERA and a career-high 32 saves in 38 opportunities. He ranked second in the National League in saves and tied for fifth in the majors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Pag\u00e1n is 28-27 with a 3.66 ERA and 65 saves in nine major league seasons with Seattle, Oakland, Tampa Bay, San Diego, Minnesota and Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Joe Reedy, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Free agent closer Emilio Pag\u00e1n has agreed to return to the Cincinnati Reds on a $20 million, two-year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-324386","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-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324386","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=324386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}