By STEPHEN HAWKINS (AP Baseball Writer)
The Texas Rangers have added one other confirmed veteran to their revamped beginning rotation.
Texas native Nathan Eovaldi agreed Tuesday to a two-year contract that features a vesting participant possibility for the 2025 season. The staff introduced the deal after the right-hander accomplished a bodily examination in Texas.
Eovaldi’s addition comes solely 3 1/2 weeks after the Rangers signed two-time NL Cy Young Award winner Jacob deGrom in free company.
An individual acquainted with the deal mentioned Eovaldi was assured $34 million, with salaries of $16 million every in 2023 and 2024, and a $2 million signing bonus payable at a later date. That particular person spoke on situation on anonymity as a result of the staff didn’t disclose the phrases, which embody a vesting participant possibility of $20 million for 2025 if Eovaldi pitches a complete of 300 innings over the subsequent two seasons.
“I’m elated that we have added another standout pitcher to our rotation in Nathan Eovaldi,” Rangers normal supervisor Chris Young mentioned in an announcement. “Nathan has quality stuff and an unmatched work ethic, and he’ll provide a veteran presence to the staff. The depth of our starting pitching will be a real asset for the 2023 Texas Rangers.”
Eovaldi has pitched for 5 groups over 11 massive league seasons, the previous 4 1/2 seasons with the Boston Red Sox. He went 6-3 with a 3.87 ERA whereas restricted to twenty begins in 2022 due to two stints on the injured checklist (decrease again irritation and shoulder). He was 11-9 with a 3.75 ERA in 32 begins in 2021, when he was an All-Star for the primary time and completed fourth within the AL Cy Young Award voting.
The Houston native is 67-68 with a 4.16 ERA in 240 profession video games (221 begins) with the Red Sox, Miami, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees and Tampa Bay. He will flip 33 in February, simply earlier than the beginning of spring coaching.
DeGrom agreed to a $185 million, five-year take care of the Rangers earlier than the winter conferences this month.
Texas additionally signed left-hander Andrew Heaney to a $25 million, two-year contract in free company, acquired Jake Odorizzi in a commerce with Atlanta, and retained All-Star left-hander Martin Pérez with a $19.65 million qualifying supply. The Rangers signed right-hander Jon Gray to a $56 million, four-year deal final winter on the similar time they added the half-billion greenback center infield of Corey Seager and Marcus Semien.
The Rangers have had six consecutive dropping seasons, the longest stretch for the franchise since transferring to Texas in 1972. Three-time World Series champion Bruce Bochy got here out of a three-year retirement in October to develop into their new supervisor.
To make room on the 40-man roster for Eovaldi, right-hander Nick Mears was designated for project. The Rangers acquired Mears final week on a waiver declare from Pittsburgh.
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