{"id":529988,"date":"2026-03-18T03:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T03:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/529988\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T03:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T03:02:19","slug":"red-sox-reportedly-sign-former-yankees-reliever-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/529988\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox Reportedly Sign Former Yankees Reliever To Minor-League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/boston-red-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Red Sox<\/a> have reportedly added some bullpen depth.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Boston signed left-hander Danny Coulombe last week to an MLB contract, as he\u2019ll be in the bullpen come Opening Day. Yet, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JonHeyman\/status\/2034050766025990393\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to MLB insider<\/a> Jon Heyman, the Red Sox have inked veteran right-handed reliever Tommy Kahnle to a minor-league deal.<\/p>\n<p>Kahnle has been a free agent since completing his one-year, $7.75 million deal with the Detroit Tigers.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Yankees drafted Kahnle in the fifth round of the 2010 MLB Draft, but he never made the roster as the Colorado Rockies picked him in the Rule 5 Draft in 2013.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kahnle has since pitched for the Chicago White Sox, the Yankees twice, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Tigers last season. He also pitched for Team Israel at the WBC.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old Kahnle has appeared in 456 career games and is 11-19 with a 3.61 ERA, including recording 17 saves. With the Tigers last season, the veteran went 1-5 with a 4.43 ERA in 66 games.<\/p>\n<p>Kahnle is a veteran reliever who used three pitches in 2025: a four-seam fastball, a changeup, and a slider. However, he only threw the slider four times, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/baseballsavant.mlb.com\/savant-player\/tommy-kahnle-592454?stats=statcast-r-pitching-mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to<\/a> Baseball Savant.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran right-hander will add some more depth to the Red Sox\u2019s system as he looks to earn a roster spot ahead of Opening Day.<\/p>\n<p>Boston is set to open its 2026 MLB season on March 26 against the Cincinnati Reds.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/boston-red-sox\/news\/usa-vs-venezuela-channel-stream-time-world-baseball-classic\/236755a67dc6bd7a36db0668\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What Channel Is USA vs. Venezuela on Tonight? Live Stream, Start Time for World Baseball Classic Championship<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Red Sox have reportedly added some bullpen depth. \u00a0 Boston signed left-hander Danny Coulombe last week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-529988","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\/529988","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=529988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}