{"id":109568,"date":"2024-03-24T17:26:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T17:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mlbhi.aweu.info\/?p=109568"},"modified":"2024-03-24T17:27:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T17:27:29","slug":"red-sox-quickly-sign-10-year-veteran-to-join-starting-rotation-hong-nhung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/red-sox-quickly-sign-10-year-veteran-to-join-starting-rotation-hong-nhung\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox Quickly Sign 10-Year Veteran to Join Starting Rotation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<p>Getty\u00a0Red Sox signee Chase Anderson<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/GettyImages-1683898648-e1711278788329.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" alt=\"Red Sox Quickly Sign 10-Year Veteran to Join Starting Rotation - Heavy.com\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On Saturday afternoon, the\u00a0Pirates\u00a0cut veteran pitcher Chase Anderson, who had signed with the team on a minor-league deal in the offseason. Anderson had the right to trigger an opt-out in that deal if he was not named to the big-league roster on March 23. When he exercised that option, the Pirates let him walk. But just hours later, the\u00a0Red Sox\u00a0were there to scoop him up.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0Chris Cotillo of MassLive.com, the Red Sox added Anderson on a one-year deal with the big-league club.<\/p>\n<div id=\"f603131f15a4353c3e043f5dbc1dd695\">\n<article>Red Sox are in agreement with righty Chase Anderson on major league deal, source tells MassLive.<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p>Anderson is not the big-name pitcher that Red Sox fans have surely been looking for, even before the season-ending injury to Lucas Giolito, who had\u00a0surgery this month\u00a0to repair a partially torn ulnar collateral ligament. Giolito was expected to be the No. 1 starter in the rotation.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox have\u00a0long been linked\u00a0to former Rangers starter Jordan Montgomery, who has yet to sign with a team after holding out for a major contract in free agency\u2014rumored to be seeking a deal similar to the $172 million contract signed by Aaron Nola in Philadelphia. But the signing of Anderson could mean that door is closed.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Chase Anderson Has Veteran Starting Chops<\/h2>\n<p>That\u2019s not to say, of course, that Anderson figures to swoop in and rescue a Red Sox rotation that is short on proven starters. Anderson is 36 and in 10 MLB seasons with seven different franchises, he has managed a\u00a059-56 record with an ERA of 4.35. Most recently, he pitched for the\u00a0Rockies, where he went 1-6 with a 5.35 ERA last season.<\/p>\n<p>But those numbers were not likely as bad as they seemed. Anderson does struggle with allowing home runs, but he was fighting through shoulder inflammation last season, an injury that kept him out from late July to early September.<\/p>\n<p>The record was not good, but in games that Anderson started, the Rockies went 8-9, and he seemed to have found a groove in his final three starts. He allowed no hits in seven innings on September 15 against the Giants, and allowed just 10 hits and three earned runs in those final\u00a0three starts, over 18.1 innings. He walked nine and struck out 14.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt like I was back to myself,\u201d Anderson\u00a0told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette\u00a0last month. \u201cThat was a really good springboard into the offseason, to get the confidence back and know I can still do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Red Sox Rotation Still in Flux<\/h2>\n<p>Anderson had a good Spring Training, too, despite the Pirates\u2019 decision to let him go. He was 2-0 with a 2.45 ERA and nine strikeouts in 11.0 innings in Florida, and indication that perhaps what we saw from Anderson late last year was no fluke.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to say where the Red Sox would slot Anderson in as a starter, but it\u2019s possible he could take the No. 3 role behind Brayan Bello and Nick Pivetta. Kutter Crawford, Tanner Houck and Garrett Whitlock are also\u00a0slated to be starters\u00a0this year, though Whitlock could move back to the bullpen. All three had strong springs as starters.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson will surely play a mentoring role with the young Red Sox starters, but as he told the Post-Gazette, he does not feel he is finished with baseball just yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe body feels pretty good for 36,\u201d Anderson said. \u201cLooking forward to trying to get a few more years out of it. Thankfully, the good Lord has given me pretty good overall health throughout my professional career.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty\u00a0Red Sox signee Chase Anderson On Saturday afternoon, the\u00a0Pirates\u00a0cut veteran pitcher Chase Anderson, who had signed with the team on a minor-league deal in the offseason. 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