2 year extension with an $8 mil club option. $7.5 mil annually with a signing bonus. $18.5 mil guaranteed. It’s a steal.
2 year extension with an $8 mil club option. $7.5 mil annually with a signing bonus. $18.5 mil guaranteed. It’s a steal.
Wow, was not expecting this.
Bloom is da man.
Championships since purchase by John Henry group: Red Sox 4 Yankees 1
The Red Sox are 8-1 in their last 9 postseason games against the Yankees.
Thus endeth the Barnes Trade Speculation….
Very reasonable deal that gives us a solid performer for the next 2 or 3 years.
Unless Barnes implodes over the second half, I can't see any scenario where he would not have made way more than this deal.
On paper, this is a mega steal for the Sox.
While this season looks like an outlier, he has had several very good seasons.
His 15.1 K/9 rate is not his career high. He had a 14.3 K/9 rate from 2018-2020. His 3.28 FIP over that time is very nice. (It's 2.04, this year.)
His biggest improvement is with BB/9. It was 5.0 from 2018-2020 and is 2.4, now.
Can he sustain this?
We'll find out.
Just a few short months ago, very few wanted him to touch the 9th inning.
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