{"id":396161,"date":"2026-01-08T23:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T23:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/396161\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T23:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T23:52:09","slug":"kerry-carpenter-news-gets-deal-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/396161\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry Carpenter News: Gets deal for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gn-news__notes\">Carpenter agreed to a one-year, $3.275 million contract with the Tigers on Thursday to avoid arbitration, Evan Petzold of the Detroit Free Press reports.<\/p>\n<p>Carpenter didn&#8217;t maintain the same efficiency in 2025 (.788 OPS) that he displayed during his injury-plagued 2024 campaign (.932), but he still managed to set a new career high with 26 homers this past season while driving in 62 RBI and scoring 66 runs himself. The 28-year-old outfielder holds value as a home-run threat against right-handed pitchers but is likely to ride the bench when matched up against a lefty starter.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"gn-subscribe-cta__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rotowire.com\/images\/rebrand-assets\/site-logo\/logo_symbol.svg\" alt=\"RotoWire\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Win Your League With RotoWire!<\/p>\n<p>Unlock our premium fantasy baseball tools<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a class=\"gn-subscribe-cta__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rotowire.com\/subscribe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign Up Now<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carpenter agreed to a one-year, $3.275 million contract with the Tigers on Thursday to avoid arbitration, Evan Petzold&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-396161","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\/396161","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=396161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}