{"id":354833,"date":"2025-12-19T05:34:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T05:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/354833\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T05:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T05:34:06","slug":"san-diego-padres-rhp-michael-king-agree-to-three-year-75m-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/354833\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Padres, RHP Michael King agree to three-year, $75M deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Right-hander Michael King and the San Diego Padres\u00a0agreed to a three-year, $75 million contract, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Jeff Passan on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The deal allows King to opt out after the 2026 and 2027 seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">King was limited to 15 starts for the Padres in 2025, missing about half the season because of a knee injury and a nerve issue in his right shoulder. He went 5-3 with a 3.44 ERA and 76 strikeouts in 73\u2153 innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 30-year-old right-hander, who relies on his sinker and changeup, still showed flashes of what stood out in his first season in San Diego in 2024, when he posted a 3.9 WAR and a 2.95 ERA in 173\u2154 innings in 30 starts. He finished seventh in National League Cy Young Award voting that year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The big difference between the two seasons, however, was that his four-seam fastball got hit harder than it did in 2024, going from a .402 slugging percentage allowed to .814.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was tendered a $22.025 million qualifying offer by the Padres, but he declined it by the Nov. 18 deadline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">King spent his first five MLB seasons with the New York Yankees, and he has a 31-29 record with a 3.24 ERA and 559 strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The news was first reported by MLB.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Right-hander Michael King and the San Diego Padres\u00a0agreed to a three-year, $75 million contract, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Jeff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,153613,462,137110,82],"class_list":["post-354833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-michael-king-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-874220","tag-mlb","tag-san-diego-padres-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-249","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354833","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=354833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}