{"id":449942,"date":"2025-12-16T02:06:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T02:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/449942\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T02:06:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T02:06:17","slug":"braves-reportedly-sign-ha-seong-kim-to-one-year-20-million-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/449942\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves reportedly sign Ha-Seong Kim to one-year, $20 million deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

On this cold and dreary day here in the Atlanta metro area, the Hot Stove has once again been lit by the Atlanta Braves front office. This time, they\u2019ve managed to solve their shortstop problem by bringing back the player who held down the position for the final month of the season. Jon Heyman of the New York Post was the first to report that the Braves had signed Ha-Seong Kim to a $20 million deal and Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic confirmed<\/a> that it was a one-year deal.<\/p>\n

It turns out that the one-month \u201ctrial\u201d in Atlanta ended up paying off for both parties \u2014 the Braves were in desperate need of a shortstop and Ha-Seong Kim (a Scott Boras client) was looking to cash in on being one of the highest-profile free agent shortstops in a particularly weak market for shortstops this offseason. He would\u2019ve made $16 million had he accepted his player option but instead, he\u2019s managed to get the Braves to pony up an extra $4 million for this upcoming season.<\/p>\n

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The Braves had acquired Mauricio Dub\u00f3n from the Houston Astros earlier in the offseason and for the time being, Atlanta was prepared to settle for Dub\u00f3n being their starting shortstop on Opening Day despite being more suited to being a Swiss Army knife-type player who could fit in whenever needed instead of as an everyday player. Now, the Braves will be able to fully utilize Dub\u00f3n in a flexible manner as they\u2019ve addressed the shortstop position with this move.<\/p>\n

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They\u2019ve addressed shortstop in a big way as well \u2014 MLB Trade Rumors had Kim tabbed as a Top 30 free agent and one of the top shortstop free agents as well. If the Braves weren\u2019t going to swing for the fences by going for Bo Bichette then a reunion with Ha-Seong Kim made all the sense in the world. A one-year deal is a bit unexpected as well since it wouldn\u2019t have been surprising at all to see him get a multi-year deal in this market but ultimately, it appears that both parties are pretty happy to run it back for a full season after the good month that Kim had to end the season with the Braves.<\/p>\n

Kim hit .253\/.316\/.368 with a .301 wOBA and 91 wRC+ with three homers over the course of the final month of the season that he spent with Atlanta \u2014 numbers that aren\u2019t exactly mind-blowing but when you compare that production to what the Braves were getting at the plate from their shortstop options before they picked him up, he may as well have been one of the members of Murderer\u2019s Row. Hopefully Kim will produce at the plate at a level that he reached during his time with the Padres and if that\u2019s the case (along with some solid defense as well) then Atlanta\u2019s going to be very happy with Ha-Seong Kim going forward.<\/p>\n

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For now, Alex Anthopoulos has pulled off another hit here in the offseason and suddenly this roster is really starting to come together. Atlanta\u2019s infield is now set and they\u2019ve bolstered their depth in the process. This is pretty encouraging, y\u2019all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this cold and dreary day here in the Atlanta metro area, the Hot Stove has once again…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":449943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[1280,206790,40934,5915,2382,68707,176354,1266,8037,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-449942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-atlanta-metro-area","tag-bo-bichette","tag-ha-seong-kim","tag-houston-astros","tag-jon-heyman","tag-mauricio-dubon","tag-mlb","tag-padres","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115726804340786208","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}