{"id":567586,"date":"2026-02-12T05:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/567586\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T05:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:18:16","slug":"left-hander-john-king-agrees-to-1-year-deal-with-marlins-ap-source-says-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/567586\/","title":{"rendered":"Left-hander John King agrees to 1-year deal with Marlins, AP source says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Miami Marlins are signing left-handed reliever John King to a one-year deal to bolster their bullpen, a person familiar with the move told The Associated Press on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal had not been finalized. It was first reported by ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old King became a free agent in November after being non-tendered by the St. Louis Cardinals. His contract will be worth $1.5 million, per ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>King had a 2-1 record with a 4.66 ERA in 51 appearances with the Cardinals last season. He spent the past 2 1\/2 seasons in St. Louis after beginning his MLB career in 2020 with the Texas Rangers. He is 16-14 with a career 3.80 ERA over 253 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>The Marlins have been busy in free agency recently,  to sign right-hander Chris Paddack to a $4 million, one-year contract. Miami  right-handed reliever Pete Fairbanks  Christopher Morel in December.<\/p>\n<p>King will join Cade Gibson, Josh Simpson and Andrew Nardi as the left-handed relievers on the Marlins\u2019 40-man roster.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami Marlins are signing left-handed reliever John King to a one-year deal to bolster their bullpen, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2395],"tags":[5,1816,778,58,4171,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-567586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-marlins","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-marlins","10":"tag-miami","11":"tag-miami-marlins","12":"tag-miamimarlins","13":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116055972757098241","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}