{"id":443530,"date":"2026-02-01T21:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/443530\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T21:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:44:07","slug":"dodgers-sign-6-foot-4-lhp-pitcher-in-free-agency-in-attempted-mlb-comeback-from-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/443530\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers sign 6-foot-4 LHP pitcher in free agency in attempted MLB comeback from Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> don’t stop looking for new talent.<\/p>\n

Their latest signing spent the 2025 season pitching in Korea after a bunch of years in MLB, and this is his chance at a comeback.<\/p>\n

The move was reported Sunday by Aram Leighton<\/a>: It’s Cole Irvin joining the Dodgers on a minor league contract that presumably will include an invite to major league spring training.<\/p>\n

Irvin just turned 32 years old on Jan. 31.<\/p>\n

MORE:\u00a0How Jose Ramirez is on pace to become Cleveland’s Derek Jeter<\/a><\/p>\n

He pitched for the KBO’s Doosan Bears in 2025 and had a 4.48 ERA there.<\/p>\n

In his MLB career, he has a 4.54 ERA.<\/p>\n

Irvin is a 6-foot-4 southpaw who was originally a fifth-round pick by the Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> in the 2016 MLB Draft out of the University of Oregon.<\/p>\n

He made his MLB debut in 2019 for the Phillies, and he pitched in 19 games across two seasons for Philadelphia (6.75 ERA).<\/p>\n

Irvin spent 2021 and 2022 with the Oakland Athletics<\/a>, making a combined 62 starts with a 4.11 ERA in his two best MLB seasons.<\/p>\n

His 2023 went to Baltimore, where he had a 4.42 ERA in 24 outings for the Orioles.<\/p>\n

MORE:\u00a0Luis Arraez is MLB’s perfect misfit in 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

He split 2024 between the Orioles (4.86 ERA in 25 appearances) and Twins (12.27 ERA in four outings).<\/p>\n

Then he went to Korea for 2025.<\/p>\n

Irvin only has a career 6.6 strikeouts per nine ratio, meaning he has to induce weak contact consistently to be successful.<\/p>\n

At best, he’s likely a spot starter for L.A. in the case of injury, but it’s always good to have more pitching depth, and Irvin will provide that for the Dodgers.<\/p>\n

More MLB news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Dodgers don’t stop looking for new talent. Their latest signing spent the 2025 season pitching…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-443530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443530","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=443530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}