White Sox sign Liam Hendriks

[jacksonianmarch]

Very, very strange contract. 4 years $54 mil. First 3 years are 3-$39 mil. Final year is a $15 mil option with a $15 mil buyout. If the White Sox go the buyout route, Hendriks gets the $15 mil deferred in future payments. Never seen a contract where the only benefit to the option being exercised for the player is not the amount of money, but when they’d receive it

[Bellhorn04]

MLBTR is calling it a 3 year/54 million contract. But with the deferred money I assume the AAV will be lower than 18 mill.

 

Surprising to say the least.

[mvp 78]

So, about that down market...

[notin]

Happiest person with this contract - Brad Hand

 

Unhappiest - everyone who passed on him for 1 year at $10 mill....

[mvp 78]

Happiest person with this contract - Brad Hand

 

Unhappiest - everyone who passed on him for 1 year at $10 mill....

 

When a journeyman reliever with 3 good years under his belt at age 31 gets that kind of contract...

[moonslav59]

When a journeyman reliever with 3 good years under his belt at age 31 gets that kind of contract...

 

Maybe small sample sizes do impress some GMs, although his last 110 innings may be kind of a large sample size for a RP'er from 2019-2020. (Only Beeks had more RP IP than Hendricks.) Going more than 1 IP has a lot of value.

 

0.897 WHIP

1.79 ERA (38 ERA-)

1.70 FIP (2.89 xFIP)

13.1 K/9

2.0 BB

6.7 K/BB

 

RP WAR 2019-2020

5.2 Hendricks

3.4 Yates

3.0 Anderson

2.7 Rogers

2.6 Hand, Hader

2.5 Lugo

2.4 Chapman

2.3 R Iglesias

[notin]

When a journeyman reliever with 3 good years under his belt at age 31 gets that kind of contract...

 

... it might make Cleveland rethink the whole "Brad Hand/option" thingy...

[Bellhorn04]

... it might make Cleveland rethink the whole "Brad Hand/option" thingy...

 

Not those misers.

[mvp 78]

... it might make Cleveland rethink the whole "Brad Hand/option" thingy...

 

Should make the Sox rethink not grabbing him then.