{"id":328381,"date":"2025-12-03T17:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T17:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/328381\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T17:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T17:23:07","slug":"white-sox-anthony-kay-agree-to-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/328381\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox, Anthony Kay Agree To Two-Year Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

11:15am: Kay will be paid $5MM in each of the next two seasons and has a $2MM buyout on a $10MM mutual option for the 2028 season, Will Sammon<\/a> of The Athletic reports<\/a>. He can tack on another $1.5MM via incentives.<\/p>\n

11:04am: The White Sox and left-hander Anthony Kay<\/a> are in agreement on a two-year, $12MM contract, reports Robert Murray of Fansided<\/a>. The former first-round pick and top prospect, who\u2019s represented by CAA, has spent the past two seasons pitching well for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars of Japan\u2019s Nippon Professional Baseball.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a familiar page in general manager Chris Getz<\/a>\u2019s playbook: sign a former first-rounder to a two-year deal on the heels of a strong run pitching in one of the top leagues in Asia. That worked out reasonably well when Chicago signed Erick Fedde<\/a> for two years and $15MM in the 2023-24 offseason; Fedde was traded to the Cardinals in a three-team swap in July 2024, netting the White Sox Miguel Vargas<\/a> and minor league infielders Alexander Albertus and Jeral Perez. Vargas was a league-average bat for the South Siders in 2025 and is controlled another four seasons. Albertus and Perez rank within the top 25 prospects in the Sox\u2019 system.<\/p>\n

The Sox will hope for similar results in their similarly priced investment into Kay. The 30-year-old southpaw (31 in March) has pitched 291 2\/3 innings since heading to Japan. In that time, he\u2019s logged a 2.53 ERA with a 20.9% strikeout rate, 7.9% walk rate and 54.5% ground-ball rate in 48 starts out of the BayStars\u2019 rotation.<\/p>\n

More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"11:15am: Kay will be paid $5MM in each of the next two seasons and has a $2MM buyout…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[134283,363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-328381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-anthony-kay","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328381","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=328381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}