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Patrick Kivlehan Signs With NPB’s Yakult Swallows

By Steve Adams | April 29, 2022 at 8:37am CDT

Infielder/outfielder Patrick Kivlehan has signed with the Yakult Swallows of Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball, tweets Jon Heyman of the New York Post. The well-traveled corner bat will be paid $600K and can boost that total via incentives. He’s represented by Pro Agents Inc. and Agency 1.

Kivlehan, 32, has seen action in parts of four big league seasons, most recently appearing in five games with the Padres in 2021. He also played with Team USA during last summer’s Olympics. A fourth-round pick by Seattle back in 2012, Kivlehan has bounced from the Mariners to the Padres, Reds, D-backs and, earlier this year, the White Sox, with whom he opened the season in Triple-A. He logged a career-high 105 games with the 2017 Reds but hit just .208/.304/.399 in 204 plate appearances. All told, he’s a .208/.308/.398 hitter in 250 big league plate appearances.

Tepid track record in the Majors aside, Kivlehan has a solid minor league track record, including a .263/.325/.488 batting line in more than 2200 plate appearances at the Triple-A level. He mashed 32 home runs between the Pirates and Blue Jays’ minor league systems in 2019, slugged 21 long balls in just 91 games with the Padres’ Triple-A club in 2021 and was 5-for-12 with a pair of homers in three games with the ChiSox’ top affiliate this year before this NPB opportunity presented itself.

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  1. niel.marshal

    3 years ago

    Are he replacing Domingo Santana? Because i havent see Santana like for two weeks in Yakult game. Meanwhile Jose Osuna seems perform just okay IMHO. Batted .258/.376/.286 in 25 games with 4BB and 22 SO.

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  2. BaseballClassic1985

    3 years ago

    Who?

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    • User 3663041837

      3 years ago

      Patrick Kivlehan. Pronounced KIV-luh-hann.

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  3. joblo

    3 years ago

    Is this the same Patrick Kivlehan that signed a minor league deal with the Pirates three years ago? My reason for asking is that transaction is the most recent one in my Trade Rumors Pirates team feed. I’ve contacted the site multiple times about updating the Pirates team feed but get no response. I know that the Pirates are bad but that is no excuse for Trade Rumors not to update their team feed. Come on guys, get it together.

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    • #1WhiteSoxFan

      3 years ago

      Something wrong with ur log in

      I see dozens of Pirates’ rumors using the web.

      Reply

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