{"id":351364,"date":"2025-12-16T03:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T03:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/351364\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T03:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T03:47:10","slug":"ha-seong-kim-returning-to-braves-on-1-year-20-million-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/351364\/","title":{"rendered":"Ha-Seong Kim returning to Braves on 1-year, $20 million deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dec 15, 2025, 09:47 PM ET<\/p>\n

ATLANTA — Shortstop Ha-Seong Kim<\/a> is returning to the Atlanta Braves<\/a>, agreeing Monday to a one-year, $20 million contract.<\/p>\n

Kim gets a $4 million raise. He had declined a $16 million player option in his two-year, $29 million contract he agreed to in February with Tampa Bay, a deal that paid him $13 million. The Braves announced the new deal with Kim on Monday night.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old from South Korea batted .234 with 5 homers and 17 RBIs for the Rays and Braves, who claimed him off waivers Sept. 1. Kim didn’t make his season debut until July 4 because of right shoulder surgery in late 2024.<\/p>\n

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Kim has a .242 average with 52 homers and 217 RBIs for San Diego (2021-24), Tampa Bay (2025) and Atlanta.<\/p>\n

Atlanta designated right-hander Osvaldo Bido<\/a> for assignment to open a roster spot.<\/p>\n

Kim’s return means Mauricio Dub\u00f3n<\/a>, acquired from the Houston Astros<\/a> for Nick Allen<\/a> in an exchange of infielders Nov. 19, likely will be in a utility role instead of being the starting shortstop.<\/p>\n

Dub\u00f3n, 31, appeared in 133 games with Houston last season and batted .241 while earning his second Gold Glove, each time as a utility infielder. He also won a Gold Glove in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 15, 2025, 09:47 PM ET ATLANTA — Shortstop Ha-Seong Kim is returning to the Atlanta Braves, agreeing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-351364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351364","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=351364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}