{"id":49582,"date":"2025-05-06T08:52:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T07:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/?p=49582"},"modified":"2025-05-06T08:52:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T07:52:58","slug":"michael-king-opens-up-on-whether-hed-return-to-the-yankees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/michael-king-opens-up-on-whether-hed-return-to-the-yankees\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael King Opens Up on Whether He\u2019d Return to the Yankees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Yankees didn&rsquo;t want to lose Michael King. They tried not to. But the Padres had made it clear: no Michael King, no Juan Soto.<\/p><p>The hindsight results of the trade would look a lot different had the Yankees managed to keep Juan Soto in the Bronx, but he&rsquo;s in Queens now, and Michael King is boasting an unbelievable 2.09 ERA seven starts into the season.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Michael King completes the shutout! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SuMXdYvlYw\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>pic.twitter.com\/SuMXdYvlYw<\/a><\/p>&mdash; MLB (@MLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/1911547347001094437?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>April 13, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure><p>On Tuesday night, Michael King will take the mound in the Bronx, only this time, he&rsquo;ll be doing it in a Padres uniform, bringing a 4-1 record and 2.09 ERA into a marquee start against his old team. For anyone keeping score, that&rsquo;s a better ERA than anyone in the Yankees&rsquo; rotation, removing Max Fried, who is already off to an All-Star start to the 2025 season. Not bad for someone who spent most of 2023 pitching out of the bullpen in pinstripes.<\/p><p><em>&ldquo;I mean, of course, once you get to free agency, that&rsquo;s what I&rsquo;ll start thinking about,&rdquo;<\/em> King said when asked about the possibility of returning to New York someday. <em>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve got to focus on winning today&hellip; hopefully by the end of it I can have all 30 teams calling me.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p><p>They probably will, and the Yankees had better be one of them.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ht\" dir=\"ltr\">Michael King, Filthy 86mph Changeup. &#128567; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g3OChuOJhm\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>pic.twitter.com\/g3OChuOJhm<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PitchingNinja\/status\/1911529794371830118?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>April 13, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure><p>Because right now, New York&rsquo;s pitching depth is paper-thin. Gerrit Cole is on the shelf. Luis Gil is out for another 6-8 weeks at least. So, beyond Max Fried, Carlos Rodon and Clarke Schmidt, the rotation drops off a cliff: Will Warren has been ineffective, Carlos Carrasco is a placeholder, and Marcus Stroman&rsquo;s currently on the IL with a name that carries no optimism whatsoever.<\/p><p><strong>ALSO READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/devin-williams-era-keeps-climbing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>Devin Williams&rsquo; ERA Keeps Climbing, Now Over 10.00<\/a><\/strong><\/p><p>This isn&rsquo;t what the Yankees planned. But it&rsquo;s the reality, and it makes watching King thrive in San Diego a special kind of <strong>gut-punch<\/strong>.<\/p><p>Boone admitted back in December 2023 that the Yankees fought hard to keep King out of the Soto deal. <em>&ldquo;In a lot of ways, [we were] trying to keep Michael King out of the deal,&rdquo;<\/em> he said. The Padres didn&rsquo;t blink, and now they have a 28-year-old right-hander looking every bit like a long-term rotation piece. His ERA in 2024 was a rock-solid 2.95. In 2025, he&rsquo;s taken another leap, becoming a legit ace.<\/p><p>Meanwhile, the Yankees are stuck trying to win with a bullpen that collapses under pressure and a rotation held together by hope.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Will Michael King Become a Free Agent?<\/h2><p>San Diego has a $15 million mutual option on King for 2026, but let&rsquo;s be honest, if he finishes this season anything like he&rsquo;s started it, that number&rsquo;s getting laughed out of the room. He&rsquo;s going to test free agency, and when he does, he&rsquo;s going to get paid. The Yankees could bring him back. This time, it won&rsquo;t cost them their farm, just their checkbook. And they&rsquo;d have more than just baseball logic working in their favor.<\/p><p>King&rsquo;s from Rhode Island. His wife&rsquo;s from New Jersey. They used to live in Manhattan. The appeal of returning to the East Coast is real, and for a pitcher approaching 30, those personal ties may matter just as much as an extra few million from a team out West.<\/p><p>The Yankees talk a lot about money as if they don&rsquo;t have it. Hal Steinbrenner has made it a hobby. But this team still prints cash, and there&rsquo;s no excuse not to be aggressive when someone like King hits the market. Not with the way this rotation looks.<\/p><p><strong>ALSO READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/theplayoffs.news\/en\/a-bronx-reunion-yankees-could-bring-back-michael-king\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"trk-cta-link\" data-cta-trk='{\"ctaType\":\"Link\",\"ctaSubType\":\"main\"}'>A Bronx Reunion? Yankees Could Bring Back Michael King<\/a><\/strong><\/p><p>Yankees fans are already dreaming about Kyle Tucker in pinstripes. But if King keeps doing what he&rsquo;s doing, his name should be floating just as high on that offseason wish list.<\/p><p>Before Monday&rsquo;s game, Boone couldn&rsquo;t help but acknowledge what King has become:<em> &ldquo;a beast,&rdquo; <\/em>he called him.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mm-layout mm-layout-type-post mm-layout-slot4\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHopefully by the end of it I can have all 30 teams calling me\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":49538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mux_skip_reasons":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[46,4105,483],"class_list":["post-49582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","tag-michael-king","tag-padres","tag-yankees"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Michael King Opens Up on Whether He&rsquo;d Return to the Yankees - 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