1 year deal. Details to follow
A move that is sure to be more condemned than praised here!
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.
The Red Sox front office undoubtedly has more and better information on Michael Wacha than the casual baseball fan who would never sign a starting pitcher who since the start of the 2019 season has an ERA of 5.11 and an ERA+ of 80 in 285.1 innings (66 appearances, 54 starts).
It’s a Bloom move. Wacha has seen his average fastball tick up by close to 1mph over the past three seasons and his 21 xFIP was almost identical to his xFIPs from his highest war seasons in StL. Wacha’s issues have been the homer and that only magnified in 21. Maybe Bloom envisions him throwing a sinker?
Passan:
Right-hander Michael Wacha and the Boston Red Sox are finalizing a one-year contract, sources familiar with the deal tell ESPN. Wacha, 30, was solid in a starting role for Tampa Bay last season and is expected to bring depth to the Red Sox’s rotation. Deal is pending a physical.
It was a small sample but in two starts against the Seattle Mariners last season Michael Wacha surrendered 20 hits and 11 earned runs in 7.2 innings:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...ll_oppon_extra
Someone in the baseball analytics department needs to be held accountable for this travesty of justice.
I guess they had to settle for Wacha after missing out on Heaney.
So… same commentary as last off-season when Bloom went after Perez and Richards? And again after the deadline when all the pitching help we got was Robles and Davis? And how did all those tragic acquisitions turn out?
Only with a trip to the ALCS?
So at any point do we maybe at least think Bloom might know what he’s doing?
Let’s not act like this will be Bloom’s centrepiece move.
If it is, I’ll be joining the bash brigade.
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