{"id":123196,"date":"2026-01-07T05:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T05:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/123196\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T05:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T05:44:14","slug":"angels-sign-rhp-kirby-yates-to-one-year-5m-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/123196\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels sign RHP Kirby Yates to one-year, $5M deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 7 &#8211; The Los Angeles Angels signed veteran right-handed reliever Kirby Yates to a one-year contract worth $5 million on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Yates, 38, does not have to leave Los Angeles for his next job after spending 2025 with the Dodgers. He made 50 appearances (41 1\/3 innings) for the eventual World Series champions and pitched to a 5.23 ERA with a 4-3 record and three saves. He didn&#8217;t pitch in the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>The Angels will be Yates&#8217; eighth club in his 12th MLB season.<\/p>\n<p>He has had his best seasons when serving as a closer for the San Diego Padres in 2019 and the Texas Rangers in 2024, receiving All-Star nods and Cy Young Award votes both years. For the Rangers, he went 7-2 with 33 saves and a sterling 1.17 ERA over 61 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>In 472 career games, all out of the bullpen, Yates is 30-24 with 98 saves and a 3.36 ERA. He has struck out 623 batters and walked 181 in 452 2\/3 innings of work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"Body\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__base__o--Cl body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__element__5eCce article-body-module__trust-badge__5mS3f\">Our Standards: <a data-testid=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thomsonreuters.com\/en\/about-us\/trust-principles.html\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__medium__2Rl30 text-module__small__sph8i link-module__link__INqxZ link-module__underline_default__-okuC link-module__with-icon__qlg76\">The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reutersagency.com\/en\/licensereuterscontent\/?utm_medium=rcom-article-media&amp;utm_campaign=rcom-rcp-lead\" target=\"_blank\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"button-module__link__A3sD0 button-module__secondary__70gBu button-module__round__QDFgq button-module__w_auto__Sem-F\" data-testid=\"LicenceContentButton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Purchase Licensing Rights<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"January 7 &#8211; The Los Angeles Angels signed veteran right-handed reliever Kirby Yates to a one-year contract worth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,7203,7204,691,1263],"class_list":["post-123196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-base","tag-bbo","tag-destousspm","tag-spo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123196","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=123196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}