{"id":114146,"date":"2025-12-30T22:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T22:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/114146\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T22:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T22:42:07","slug":"kirby-yates-signs-1-year-5-million-contract-with-the-anaheim-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/114146\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirby Yates signs 1-year, $5 million contract with the Anaheim Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Kirby Yates struggled in his one year with the Dodgers in a season marred by injuries and underperformance. The longtime reliever found a new home for his age-39 season, signing with the Anaheim Angels on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/12\/angels-sign-kirby-yates.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one-year, $5 million contract<\/a> on December 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">He also missed time on three separate injured list stints due to his right hamstring and lower back pain. The injuries serve as a demarcation of Yates\u2019 2025 season. Before his first IL trip in May, Yates had a 4.34 ERA, 3.05 FIP, and three home runs in 22 games, with a 38.8-percent strikeout rate and 7.5-percent walk rate. Afterward, he had a 5.96 ERA, 6.18 FIP, and six home runs in 28 games, with a 21.4-percent strikeout rate and 11.2-percent walk rate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Angels are Yates\u2019 fourth team in four seasons, after pitching for the Braves in 2023, Rangers in 2024, and Dodgers in 2025. In 11 major league seasons, Yates also pitched for the Rays, Yankees, Angels, and Padres. The two-time All-Star has a 3.36 ERA and 98 career saves in 472 games, with 623 strikeouts and 181 walks in 452 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kirby Yates struggled in his one year with the Dodgers in a season marred by injuries and underperformance.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,24662],"class_list":["post-114146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-dodgers-news-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}