[消息] Brewers To Re-Sign Francisco Rodriguez
By Jeff Todd [February 26, 2015 at 11:59am CST]
The Brewers have reached agreement on a two-year, $13MM deal with reliever
Francisco Rodriguez. Milwaukee also holds a club option for the 2017 season
over the Boras Corporation client.
MLB: Milwaukee Brewers at St. Louis Cardinals
While the annual breakdown is not yet fully reported, Rodriguez will earn
just $3MM in 2015 and $6MM in 2016. The remainder will be deferred in some
manner, though it is not clear how much is deferred salary and how much will
go toward the option buyout. That will have important ramifications for the
deal’s incentives, but the bottom line is that Milwaukee will save on
up-front costs.
At $13MM, Rodriguez will land just shy of the $14MM that MLBTR predicted
before the start of the offseason, though the option structure had to be
agreed upon to achieve that. The deal appears to slot in fairly sensibly
among recent contracts for similar-quality relievers. Only the younger Luke
Gregerson landed a three year deal (at a $6MM AAV), while Koji Uehara ($18MM
— just before hitting the market), Sergio Romo ($15MM), and Pat Neshek
($12.5MM) all got significant guarantees on two-year pacts.
Rodriguez, 33, has spent most of the past four seasons in Milwaukee. All
said, he owns a 3.11 ERA over his 193 2/3 frames with the Brewers. He has
maintained double-digit strikeout-per-nine rates over the last two years in
addition to an excellent K%-BB%. Though FIP has been down on Rodriguez’s
work in recent campaigns, other ERA estimators like xFIP and SIERA view him
as a 3.00 or better performer.
One potential knock on Rodriguez — the many miles on his otherwise
relatively young arm — has a positive side as well. Rodriguez has been
exceptionally durable, putting up an average of 69 innings running all the
way back to 2003. And he still delivers his fastball in the same general,
low-90s range that he has found success with in the past.
In nailing down the closer role in Milwaukee and taking Rodriguez off of the
market, the signing goes a long way to clarifying the remaining relief
market. For one thing, it leaves Rafael Soriano as the undisputed best free
agent still available. For another, it takes away the most obvious trade
match for the Phillies and closer Jonathan Papelbon.
Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com reported the signing, length, and presence of an
option (Twitter links). Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports reported the total
guarantee on Twitter. Tom Haudricourt of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
tweeted the annual breakdown.
K-ROD還是回來了，兩年13M
今年季前自由球員補強應該差不多了，
Parra則是我猜還有可能可以做交易籌碼的球員
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