Startup pitcher Garrett Richards and the Boston Red Sox have agreed a one-year, 10 million deal, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Pass on Saturday.
The deal is physically outstanding.
Richards’ biggest success during the epidemic-short season was staying healthy. The veteran right-hander makes 10 starts for the San Diego Pedres in 2020, leading 2-2 with a 4.03 ERA, 46 strikeouts and 17 walks. He was moved to the bullpen at the end of the season and during the playoffs.
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Richards has a long history of hand injuries. He underwent Tommy John surgery to repair his damaged Alnar collateral ligament after starting 16 for Los Angeles Angeles in 2018, and he signed with Pedres later that season with the knowledge that he would be rehabilitated for most of his first year. Two years, લર 15 million deal. He returned to the mound for San Diego late in the 2019 season, posting an 8.31 ERA from three starts in 8.3 / 3 innings.
Another ACL injury, for which he had stem-cell and platelet-rich plasma treatment, limited Richards to just six starts in 2016, and he made only six starts in ’17 due to inflammation of the biceps.
Covering the first base at Fenway Park, ending a premature upstart season, he also tore his left patellar tendon in 2014.
Richards, who was a member of the Angels for his first eight seasons, has a career-best record of 62,662 ERA and 204 strikeouts and 2,941 walks with a score of 47-441.
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