{"id":469067,"date":"2026-02-12T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/469067\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T00:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T00:00:07","slug":"left-hander-john-king-agrees-to-one-year-deal-with-miami-marlins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/469067\/","title":{"rendered":"Left-hander John King agrees to one-year deal with Miami Marlins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Miami Marlins are signing left-handed reliever John King to a one-year deal to bolster their bullpen, a person familiar with the move told The Associated Press on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal had not been finalized. It was first reported by ESPN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 31-year-old King became a free agent in November after being non-tendered by the St. Louis Cardinals. His contract will be worth $1.5 million, per ESPN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">King had a 2-1 record with a 4.66 ERA in 51 appearances with the Cardinals last season. He spent the past 2 1\/2 seasons in St. Louis after beginning his MLB career in 2020 with the Texas Rangers. He is 16-14 with a career 3.80 ERA over 253 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Marlins have been busy in free agency recently, agreeing on Monday to sign right-hander Chris Paddack to a $4 million, one-year contract. Miami also signed right-handed reliever Pete Fairbanks and utility player Christopher Morel in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">King will join Cade Gibson, Josh Simpson and Andrew Nardi as the left-handed relievers on the Marlins\u2019 40-man roster.<\/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\">Alanis Thames, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami Marlins are signing left-handed reliever John King to a one-year deal to bolster their bullpen, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-469067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469067","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=469067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}