{"id":452202,"date":"2026-02-04T00:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T00:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/452202\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T00:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T00:14:07","slug":"red-sox-sign-kyle-keller-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/452202\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox Sign Kyle Keller To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Red Sox are in agreement with reliever\u00a0Kyle Keller<\/a> on a minor league contract with an invite to Spring Training, reports Will Sammon of The Athletic<\/a>. The Nello Gamberdino client would be paid a $1.9MM base salary if he makes the MLB roster.<\/p>\n

Chris Cotillo of MassLive<\/a> adds that the deal includes multiple assignment clauses, the first of which has a mid-April date. At that point, the Red Sox would need to make Keller available to other teams if they haven\u2019t called him up. If another team is willing to add him to the MLB roster, Boston would need to call him up themselves or let him go.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a stronger than average minor league deal for the 6\u20194\u2033 righty. Keller makes his return to affiliated ball after pitching four seasons in Japan. He spent the first two seasons with the Hanshin Tigers and the most recent two years as a member of the Yomiuri Giants. Keller posted a 2.42 ERA across 152 1\/3 innings during his NPB career. He\u2019s coming off a 3.11 showing in 46 1\/3 frames. He fanned an above-average 26.3% of batters faced but issued walks at a near-12% clip.<\/p>\n

Keller didn\u2019t land a guaranteed roster spot, but he\u2019ll have a chance at solid earnings if he\u2019s able to pitch his way to the big leagues early in the year. He appeared at the MLB level each season between 2019-21. Keller saw time with the Marlins, Angels and Pirates and combined for a 5.83 earned run average over 46 1\/3 innings. He sat in the mid-90s with a decent curveball but didn\u2019t throw strikes consistently enough to stick in a big league bullpen.<\/p>\n

Chief baseball officer Craig Breslow has stockpiled a decent amount of non-roster relief depth who can compete for jobs in camp. Keller joins Vinny Nittoli<\/a>,\u00a0Seth Martinez<\/a>,\u00a0Devin Sweet<\/a>,\u00a0Tayron Guerrero<\/a> and\u00a0Hobie Harris<\/a> as minor league signees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Red Sox are in agreement with reliever\u00a0Kyle Keller on a minor league contract with an invite to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,185976,462,82],"class_list":["post-452202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-kyle-keller","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452202","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=452202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}