10:41am: There’s no choice on the contract, tweets Joel Sherman of the New York Put up, including that Kahnle will likely be paid $5.75MM in every of the following two seasons.
10:32am: The Yankees have agreed to a two-year cope with free-agent reliever Tommy Kahnle, studies Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic (Twitter link). Kahnle, a shopper of the Ballengee Group, will likely be assured a complete of $11.5MM on the deal, tweets Jon Heyman of the New York Put up. Kahnle was reported to be in “superior” talks with a number of golf equipment earlier this morning, and Alex Speier of the Boston Globe tweets that the archrival Pink Sox additionally made a two-year supply to the right-hander.
Kahnle, 33, returns to the identical Yankees group that drafted him in 2010, misplaced him to the Rockies within the 2013 Rule 5 Draft, and finally acquired him alongside David Robertson in a 2017 commerce with the White Sox. Accidents, most notably 2020 Tommy John surgical procedure, put an finish to Kahnle’s time within the Bronx. He was waived on the finish of the 2020 season, as he was arbitration-eligible that winter however anticipated to overlook the complete 2021 season whereas rehabbing from that ligament alternative process.
The Dodgers subsequently inked Kahnle to a low-cost, two-year contract with a watch towards paying him to rehab in 2021 and having fun with a hopeful rebound marketing campaign at a barely increased price in 2022. It didn’t work out fairly in addition to hoped, on condition that Kahnle was solely in a position to return to the mound for 13 2/3 regular-season innings in 2022 — plus a pair of postseason frames wherein he served up three runs.
Kahnle’s regular-season exhibiting was loads promising, nonetheless. He pitched to a pointy 2.84 ERA and fanned a gaudy 30.4% of his opponents towards a robust 6.5% stroll price. Kahnle’s 95.6 mph common fastball was nowhere close to its 98 mph peak, however the right-hander compensated by completely overloading on changeups; Kahnle threw his four-seamer at only a 23% clip towards a mammoth 76.4% utilization price for his changeup.
The brand new-look pitch choice paid dividends in that small pattern, leading to a career-high 68% ground-ball price and an enormous 17.2% swinging-strike price. Kahnle doesn’t boast the facility sinker that the Yankees usually are inclined to favor — notably amongst their relievers — however that giant ground-ball price definitely aligns with the Yankees’ current penchant for loading up on relievers with appreciable ground-ball charges.
Extra to come back.
