Nine-time All-Star Craig Kimbrel and the Baltimore Orioles have agreed on a one-year contract with a club options for 2025.
Multiple reports say the contract is worth $13 million.
Kimbrel spent 2023 with the Philadelphia Phillies, posting a 3.26 ERA over 69 innings while collecting 94 strikeouts and 23 saves.
The 35-year-old is eighth all-time on MLB's saves list and second among active players with 417 saves.
A 14-year MLB veteran, Kimbrel now joins his fifth team since 2021 and the eighth of his career. Over his major-league career, he owns a 2.40 ERA over 757.1 innings of work with 1192 strikeouts.
Kimbrel also has extensive post-season experience and won the World Series with the Boston Red Sox in 2018. He helped the Phillies to their second straight NLCS in 2023, but picked up two losses in Philadelphia's defeat at the hands of the Arizona Diamondbacks.
The Orioles are expected to use Kimbrel as their closer. Baltimore's All-Star closer, Felix Bautista, underwent Tommy John surgery in October, and will likely miss all of 2024.
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