Rangers To Sign Doug Fister - 美國職棒

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Free agent right-hander Doug Fister has agreed to a major league contract
with the Rangers, pending a physical, Evan Drellich of NBC Sports Boston
reports. It’s a one-year, $4MM guarantee that includes a $3.5MM base salary
for 2018 and either a $4.5MM club option or a $500K buyout for 2019, per SB
Nation’s Chris Cotillo. The option could be worth as much as $7MM, and both
years include $500K in performance bonuses, Cotillo adds. Fister is a client
of PSI Sports Management.

The Rangers will be the seventh big league organization for the soon-to-be
34-year-old Fister, who went through all of last offseason without landing a
contract after struggling with the Astros in 2016. The Angels finally signed
Fister to a minor league accord in May, but he opted out of it June 21 after
failing to reach the majors with the club.

After his Halos stint concluded, Fister quickly caught on via waivers with
the Red Sox and ended up turning in 90 1/3 innings (18 appearances, 15
starts) of 4.88 ERA pitching, with 8.27 K/9 against 3.79 BB/9 and a 50.6
percent groundball rate. Fister experienced a notable uptick in velocity
during his Red Sox tenure, though he still only topped out in the low-90s,
and notched one of the best swinging-strike rates of his career (7.6 percent
– up from a league-worst 5.7 percent from 2015-16).

While the 6-foot-8 Fister is no longer the front-line starter he was at times
with the Mariners, Tigers and Nationals earlier in his career, the Rangers
are banking on his respectable showing in Boston carrying into 2018. With
Andrew Cashner and Miguel Gonzalez sitting on the open market, the Rangers
entered the offseason in need of multiple starters. Texas’ rotation finished
last season 24th in both ERA and fWAR, and that was with 137 quality innings
from Yu Darvish, whom the team traded to the Dodgers at the July 31
non-waiver deadline.

For now, the Rangers’ projected starting staff for 2018 includes Fister,
Cole Hamels, Martin Perez, A.J. Griffin and Nick Martinez. While Fister,
Hamels and Perez are either strong bets or locks to earn spots, the Rangers
would hard pressed to count on either Griffin or Martinez, who combined for
178 2/3 innings of replacement-level pitching in 2017. Adding Fister won’t
be the Rangers’ last move this offseason as they attempt to repair their
rotation, then, but it’s the majors’ first notable free agent signing in
what has been an unusually quiet winter so far.

我條以1+1的合約簽下Doug Fister
2018年薪是4M
2019則是4.5M 附帶500K買斷金 (球隊選擇權)
去年在紅襪出賽90.1局 投出83K 5W9L 4.88 ERA

開福袋啦
讓我們繼續看下去

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