Toronto Blue Jays sign Cody Ponce to a three-year contract
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The Toronto Bue Jays have signed right-hander Cody Ponce to a three-year contract.
Toronto continues to load up in the rotation on the same day they finalized their seven-year contract with Dylan Cease.
The Blue Jays are finalizing a three-year contract with free agent starter Cody Ponce, reports Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic.
Free-agent right-hander Cody Ponce is finalizing a three-year agreement with the Blue Jays, sources tell The Athletic
It'll be a $30MM guarantee, reports ESPN's Jeff Passan. The deal is pending a physical.
Right-hander Cody Ponce and the Toronto Blue Jays are finalizing a three-year, $30 million contract, pending physical, sources tell ESPN. The AL champs get the KBO MVP, who went 17-1 with a 1.89 ERA and struck out 252 in 180.2 innings.
The 6'6″ righty returns to the majors after an MVP-winning season in the Korea Baseball Organization.
The three-year deal and $10MM average annual value suggests the Jays view Ponce as a starter.
He doesn't have much rotation experience in the big leagues, starting five of 20 appearances with the Pirates between 2020-21.
Ponce struggled in that first look but has reinvented himself since moving to Asia. He pitched parts of three seasons in Japan before a breakout 2025 season with the KBO's Hanwha Eagles.
Ponce took the ball 29 times and turned in a 1.89 earned run average across 180 2/3 innings.
He recorded a league-best 36.2% strikeout percentage against a tidy 6% walk rate.
Ponce led the league with 252 strikeouts overall and was the only KBO pitcher with a sub-2.00 ERA in more than 100 innings.
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