[新聞] Royals To Re-Sign Chris Young
By Charlie Wilmoth | December 7, 2015 at 9:10am CST
9:10am: Young will earn about $11.75MM over the life of the two-year deal,
tweets Jon Heyman of CBS Sports. Andy McCullough of the Kansas City Star
hears that it’s slightly less: an $11.5MM total over two years (Twitter
link).
DEC. 7, 8:15am: Young does indeed have a deal with the Royals, pending a
physical, reports MLB.com’s Jeffrey Flanagan (via Twitter), who adds that
Young is in Kansas City at the moment, presumably to take said physical
examination.
DEC. 6: The Royals are close to re-signing pitcher Chris Young to a two-year
deal, Joel Sherman of the New York Post tweets. The deal is likely to be
worth around $10MM to $11MM, and it’s likely to be completed by the close of
the Winter Meetings. ESPN’s Buster Olney recently reported that it was just
“a matter of timing” before Young and the Royals came to terms.
It appears that, as expected, Young’s new deal will be considerably more
lucrative than the $675K contract to which he agreed before last season. In
the last two seasons, Young has very effective, posting ERAs well below four
and pitching a total of almost 300 innings split between the bullpen and the
rotation in Seattle and Kansas City.
Young is now 36, and there are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of his
prospects for future success — he’s an extreme fly ball pitcher with
mediocre peripherals and very little in the way of velocity. Those reasons
existed before each of the last two seasons too, however, and Young succeeded
despite them. Fangraphs’ Dave Cameron broke down Young’s success in a
fascinating column earlier this year, noting that Young has demonstrated an
ability to repeat a BABIP that is drastically better than the league average
due to his extreme fly-ball tendencies and uncanny ability to induce weak
contact.
If the Royals believe in his ability to continue to be useful and versatile,
a salary of about $5MM per season does not seem like an unreasonable price to
pay. And considering the fact that Kansas City plays in one of the American
League’s most expansive ball parks and typically prioritizes outfield
defense — Lorenzo Cain is among the game’s best, though they’ll have a
significant defensive hole to fill if Alex Gordon leaves — Young’s skill
set seems perfectly tailored to succeed with the Royals. It remains to be
seen just how many innings Young can handle in a season — the 165 he threw
for Seattle in 2014 were his most since 2007, and he’s never even reached
180 — but for the reported price, Young doesn’t need to log 200+ innings in
order to more than justify his salary.
Kansas City has announced the signing. Jeffrey Flanagan of MLB.com
tweets the annual breakdown of the contract, which promises Young $4.25MM in
2016, $5.75MM for the following year, and a $1.5MM buyout on a $8MM mutual
option for 2018.
The club has aagreed to a deal with right-hander Chris Young, reportedly
for two years at $10 million -- $4.25 million in 2016 and $5.75 million in
2017 -- with an $8 million mutual option in 2018 with a $1.5 million buyout
and $250,000 roster bonuses each year.
2016 4.25M
2017 5.75M
2018 8M mutual option(1.5M buyout)
加上每年總值達250K的24人名單激勵獎金
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