{"id":348558,"date":"2025-12-16T08:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T08:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/348558\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T08:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T08:58:08","slug":"braves-bring-back-kim-on-1-year-20m-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/348558\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves bring back Kim on 1-year, $20M deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlanta Braves and shortstop <a data-in-app-uri=\"thescore:\/\/\/wbc\/players\/12593\" href=\"https:\/\/thescore.com\/wbc\/players\/12593\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ha-Seong Kim<\/a> agreed to a one-year, $20-million contract, the club announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves claimed Kim off waivers from the Tampa Bay Rays in early September before the 2023 Gold Glover declined his $16-million option for 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old projects to be Atlanta&#8217;s starting shortstop come Opening Day.<\/p>\n<p>Kim hit a combined five homers with 17 RBIs, posted six stolen bases, and had a .649 OPS over 48 games between the Braves and Rays in 2025. He returned in July from shoulder surgery but also dealt with back issues.<\/p>\n<p>Kim&#8217;s best campaign came in 2023 with the San Diego Padres when he went deep 17 times with 60 RBIs, 38 steals, and a .749 OPS en route to authoring a career-high 4.2 fWAR.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves have dished out new contracts to Kim, Robert Suarez, Mike Yastrzemski, and Raisel Iglesias in free agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Atlanta Braves and shortstop Ha-Seong Kim agreed to a one-year, $20-million contract, the club announced Monday. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-348558","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\/348558","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=348558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}