FanSided\u2019s Robert Murray reported Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\nWhen he makes his debut with Kansas City, he\u2019ll have played for 14 different MLB teams, tying Edwin Jackson for the most a player has joined in a career.<\/p>\n
He\u2019ll also become the oldest player in the league, beating out the Giants\u2019 Justin Verlander, who is 42.<\/p>\n
Rich Hill last pitched in the majors for the Red Sox in 2024. AP<\/p>\n
In the 21 years since he broke into the big leagues with the Cubs in 2005, Hill has managed to remain a major-leaguer despite never becoming an All-Star.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He has had several particularly impressive seasons over the years, though, including a terrific 2016 campaign, when he posted a 2.12 ERA across 110.1 innings with the Athletics and Dodgers.<\/p>\n
The Milton, Mass. native continued to thrive with Los Angeles from 2017-2019, posting a sub-3.00 ERA in each of those three seasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hill\u2019s numbers have worsened in the last few years as he\u2019s entered into his mid-40s, but he has remained a capable arm.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rich Hill #44 of the Boston Red Sox reacts during the seventh inning of a game against the Toronto Blue Jays on August 29, 2024. Getty Images<\/p>\n
The Royals will be Rich Hill\u2019s 14th MLB team. AP<\/p>\n
He notched a 4.76 ERA in 119 innings with the Pirates in 2023 before a brief, and brutal, stint to close that season with the Padres.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He pitched just 3.2 major-league innings with the Red Sox last season before getting signed to the minor-league deal in Kansas City.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hill has been pitching with the Royals\u2019 Triple-A squad in Omaha this season, posting a 5.22 ERA in 11 starts, although that figure is bloated by a few particularly poor outings.<\/p>\n
He can pitch for Kansas City as soon as Tuesday, and could carve out a role for himself with Cole Ragans (shoulder), Alec Marsh (shoulder) and Michael Lorenzen (oblique) sidelined.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Standing at 6-foot-5, 220 pounds, Hill primarily relies on a four-pitch mix of a four-seamer, sweeper, cutter and curveball, according to Baseball Savant<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rich Hill is giving Father Time a run for his money.\u00a0 The 45-year-old southpaw is heading back to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2321,363,23341,99],"class_list":["post-27690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-mlb","tag-rich-hill","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}