Garrett Richards will reportedly join the Boston Red Sox for the 2021 MLB season, signing a one-year contract to join their rotation as both sides seek to rebound in a new year.
When you’ve come this far without showing any signs of slowing down, it seems pretty unlikely a front office is about to start being coy and thinking small.
Richards spent the past two seasons with the Padres
Richards will likely help fill out a rotation that includes Chris Sale, Eduardo Rodriguez, Nathan Eovaldi and Nick Pivetta.
Richards has been frequently sidelined due to arm injuries over the last several years, but if he can get back to something resembling his best, he could be a steal for the Red Sox.
It’s near-impossible for a franchise to know it’s the right moment to cash in your chips and go all-in with a roster. But for AJ Preller, that time is right now.
The Red Sox and right-hander Garrett Richards have agreed to a one-year, $10MM deal, which will become official once Richards passes a physical.
Richards would be a buy-low candidate for the Red Sox, but possibly a good one.
Richards was once at the front end of the Angels’ rotation, but a series of injuries limited him from 2016-19.
Profar was very valuable for the Padres last season. San Diego played him in five different positions during the pandemic-shortened season, though he saw most of his action in left field and second base.
As the offseason enters its final weeks, MLB Network is going through the league, position-by-position, ranking the best players using their famed ‘Shredder’.
A new deal with Profar marks the latest strike in an ultra-aggressive winter for the Padres.
Pitching wins championships. At least, that seems to be the mantra of general manager AJ Preller as he assembled a roster built not only to contend in 2021, but for years to come.
The offseason is far from over. A number of the league’s top free agents, including Trevor Bauer and JT Realmuto, remain unsigned. But no matter what’s to come, no team has done more to boost its World Series odds than the San Diego Padres.
In his return to Houston, Castro figures to pair with the right-handed-hitting Martin Maldonado behind the dish, giving manager Dusty Baker the opportunity to play matchups with a pair of solid defenders.
It’s been an offseason dominated by a stockpiling of pitching in San Diego, in hopes of pairing that group of arms with a potent offensive core en route to a World Series title.
It looks like the San Diego Padres will go with a closer-by-committee approach in 2021. The man who finished the year as the go-to guy in the ninth, Trevor Rosenthal, departed via free agency and his predecessor has now done the same.
The trade details have been announced. The Padres nabbed another young, promising pitcher on Monday night when the news broke that Pirates right-hander Joe Musgrove is headed back to his native California in a three-team trade involving seven different players.
This could be an enormous pickup for the Blue Jays bullpen, but it will depend on how well Yates bounces back from the bone chips in his right elbow that limited him to 4 1/3 innings last year.
It appears Kirby Yates will not be returning to the San Diego Padres in 2021.
Yu Darvish had been the subject of trade rumors in recent days, but the Chicago Cubs’ decision to deal him to the San Diego Padres apparently came as a surprise.
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