The Red Sox have signed right-hander Jake Faria to a minor league deal, according to MassLive.com’s Chris Cotillo (Twitter links). The contract includes an invitation to Boston’s big league Spring Training camp, and a guaranteed $735K salary if Faria makes the active roster.
Since the start of the 2019 season, Faria has pitched only 51 1/3 MLB innings — 32 2/3 frames with the Diamondbacks in 2021, and 18 2/3 innings split between the Rays and Brewers in 2019. In between those stints in the majors, Faria also pitched at the Triple-A level with the Angels in 2021 and with the Twins last season, with a cumulative 6.64 ERA over 80 innings over the last two years.
It has been a tough ride for Faria in recent years, after he came up through Tampa Bay’s farm system with a lot of promise, and had a quick start to his MLB career with a solid 3.43 ERA over 86 2/3 innings in his 2017 rookie season. Red Sox chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom was working in the Rays’ front office during Faria’s tenure in Tampa, so the minor league deal will give Bloom a chance to see first-hand if Faria can recapture any of that old form.
Not counting those 2017 numbers, Faria otherwise has a 5.65 ERA and underwhelming strikeout and walk rates over 116 1/3 innings as a Major League pitcher. Home runs have been an issue, as Faria has allowed 19 homers in that limited 116 1/3 inning sample size. While Faria has still regularly worked as a starter at Triple-A, he has mostly been utilized as a reliever in the majors since 2018, so the Red Sox likely view him as a multi-inning reliever at best if he can win a job in their bullpen.
Pitching depth
They’ll need it.
I remember the days when we were a big market team, sigh..
Could be better, Sox don’t look too bad for a rebuilding team, at least they have devers!
People like you are the worst
No, you!
That sound you hear is me banging my head on the wall trying to figure Bloom out.
Quantum would probably be easier.
You have plenty of company.
So a meaningless minor league depth signing is causing you enough to confusion to bang your head against the wall?
Stop taking everything literally and get a sense of humor
If you think what he wrote was funny then the sarcasm in my post would obviously be lost on you…
I want Bloom fired as much as the next guy, but it’s crazy to me how so many fans are so ignorant that they get upset about minor league depth that will most likely never see the major league roster
It’s a true sign of a casual.
It’s the defining characteristic of some RS fans to criticize trades when they admit knowing nothing about the player, and to melt down over every AAA signing.
JoeBrady – I’m not going to stand for you disparaging Red Sox fans. You are now officially on double secret probation!!!
RS fans choose to criticize the deals they don’t like not all deals. It only seems that way since Bloom is so incredibly bad at his job.
You look up players so you can say you aren’t one of those fans who knows nothing about the player but in fact you interpreting stats suggests you know nothing about the player just like those who didn’t look up the stats! You use stat cast data incorrectly all the time and even Baseball Reference data all the time.
Is there really a difference between a RS fan that knows nothing about a player they are complaining about and you looking them up and misinterpreting the data? I don’t think so.
Now step back from your keyboard and take a breath. All baseball fans tend to dislike prospect deals. They usually fall into one of two categories. Prospects have no value now OR prospects are far more valuable than they really are just like futures in the commodity market. Most fans fall into one of the two groups. Neither group is right always.
The fact that you straddle the fence between groups simply means you read twice as many complaints as most people read.that disagree with your opinion.
How about stopping with the negative comments about Red Sox fans in general and show some positives towards the varied opinions on this site.
No two people should think the same way on all topics. No two people will necessarily interpret data about a player the same way. Everyone has a right to vent when their team went from 1st to 5th in the division in 3 short years due to one imbecile GM..
I say let them vent. Small compensation for the damage done by ownership and Bloom.
Pulled – Joe hates all real Red Sox fans, that’s why he’s constantly pointing to a small number of so-called Sox “fans” and claiming it’s only Red Sox fans who do what they do and that they are the worst and blah blah blah. Nobody buys it, he’s admitted he’s a Yankee fan, he enjoys trolling, for the most part I just laugh.
RS fans choose to criticize the deals they don’t like not all deals.
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People that go postal over minor league signings are idiots. They typically know nothing about the player we just signed.
I know nothing about Faria, and neither do you or the rest of the haters.
This signing is another I, one of the most vocal against bloom, also have no problem with.
Is minor league, no strings, no prospect, no corresponding DFA. It’s also unlikely to go anywhere, and, has no guaranteed long-term ramifications (but, if it does, that means he was surprisingly good which is a good problem to have.)
Now, that said, doesn’t mean we can’t continue old conversations and continue to discuss what’s wrong as a while with the franchise direction.
Winter Offseason is basically over except these types of moves. Next rounds of pick-ups, swaps, and drops mostly come about with ST results and injuries at this point.
Not much to see here I think, he’s most likely batting practice pitcher and AAA fodder who will never see the mound at Fenway. I guess it’s low risk, but also probably no reward.
Bloom is lost in the big market
Darnell – You are correct! The casual fans probably could not name two of the top four minor league affiliates or even five players on the AAA team! Most of them probably only go to the games for the beer…..
Do they have to say guarantee of 735k if he makes the big league roster? Of course he is that is the minimum wage..everybody is guaranteed at least that right.
Pauly, Faria is not on the 40 man roster so I do not believe he is entitled to the minimum salary. Opportunity only.
Just fans that COMPLAIN because their team does not spend $500,000,000, have an all star at every position, and DFA a guy they like (instead of keeping 50 players on a 40-man roster)…..those casual fans get the mute…
I love how people think there are qualifications to being a “true” or diehard fan. SMH
So, you think everyone is a diehard Red Sox fan?
That’s kind of delusional.
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Don’t be ridiculous. People are arbitrarily making rules for judging people’s devotion to a team. It’s an absurd thing to do.
Some people confuse that dedication comes in degrees with infatuation/obsession only being a small subset.
There’s guys who are SO invested in baseball, or at least with the Sox in particular, that you could name any rookie ball player and they can give a scouting report from the top of their head. Yet, they’ve only followed the team at all for 3 years.
Then there’s guys who followed the team for 60 years straight, caught what games were on live TV they could, and have a lifetime of memories of players, but, are clueless about almost any project that didn’t come up to mlb, ever.
Which is the dedicated fan? Some say both, some say neither. Diehard could mean length. Could be depth of knowledge. Could even be consistent, as in doesn’t jump elsewhere when the team stinks.
GASox – My personal definition of a diehard is someone who invests an inordinate amount of time and money (based on what they can afford) to follow the team no matter how bad a season the team is having. And I’m talking watching, listening or attending as many games as humanly possible. Following the team through FG or BR does not count.
It has nothing to do with how long someone has followed the team. If a 90-year-old who used to watch Ted Williams play doesn’t watch or listen to many games anymore, that’s not a diehard IMO if he’s physically and mentally able to do so.
And if someone who started following the team in 2018 watches or listens or attends nearly every game, plans their vacations and trips around attending games, pays a premium price for subscriptions to NESN or MLB.TV and does a lot of reading about the team (not including stats) then I would certainly call them a diehard.
You wrote “I love how people think there are qualifications to being a “true” or diehard fan.”
There are obviously qualifications to be a diehard Red Sox fan.
If you wrote “People are arbitrarily making rules for judging people’s devotion to a team. It’s an absurd thing to do.” in the first place I would have liked your comment and moved on. Your statement made no sense.
Finally!
Walks a lot of guys. Gives up a lot of hits. Can strike out some guys, but bottom line is that this move, like many, is the type you make in case the team bus gets struck by a train with the entire 40-man roster on it. This guy should never see the field for the big club, and if he does, the season went far worse than we could have imagined.
Great guy. Interviewed him a couple years ago. One of my favorite interviews.
The drama in here is suffocating….make your points and move on, nobody wants to read a pissing match.
Seems like every Red Sox headline these days has the word “minor” in it.
what the hell happened to this franchise?
Seems like every year the Yankees have the best team on paper, and never win it all.
at least we look good on paper, the Red Sox can’t even say that these days.
Yankees – Red Sox Nation agrees, which is why as of this very moment there’s still thousands of unsold tickets available for the Fenway Home Opener. When it comes to fan interest the franchise has hit rock bottom.
They hired Bloom to save miser Henry $$
They spend to the limit every year. How is that you are not aware of this?
Opening day tickets for fenway Park have been on sale for DAYS.
Literally for DAYS. And, still have thousands of unsold seats. I’m talking you can get what passes for cheap seats at fenway still, not some loge box somewhere. And in multiples, not scattered singles.
When was the last time that happened? To me, that says all there is to know about Red Sox Nation, Bloom, and this roster.
Pitching depth lol
You need to have pitching first if you wan to have pitching depth
Bloom strikes again. No risk signing and the guy will make less than 1 million if he makes the roster,Heck Henry probably has the guy paying for his own room and board during ST
Wow what a wild string of comments today. I love the enthusiasm.
Fever is right about the Red Sox.
This is the perfect time for ownership to fire both Bloom for incompetence and Cora for what he wrote in his book. Concocting the biggest cheating scheme in baseball history and getting a slap on the wrist was unfair to so many people.
What Cora did dishonored former players, current players, former and current managers and coaches, former and current fans of the game. A lifetime suspension was already set as the precedent that the commissioner ignored. In the end the three amigos cheated in Houston so grossly that up to 90 games were impacted. Whether you can proved it was 90 or just 45 is irrelevant since the CWS scandal involved 5 games and EVERYONE guilty of participating or knowledge of it got life suspensions for changing the outcome of games.
Baseball had integrity when they tried to sanctify the results of games. Now, if you add dozens of wins by cheating it draws a partial year suspension. That’s pathetic. Cora should have never been allowed on a MLB field again for the rest of his life along with Hinch and Beltran. Beltran better not make the HOF when guys who didn’t change any results are being held out because Selig forgot to mention that he swapped a juiced ball into the MLB in 1994.
Now that the book is public Cora has further tarnished the Red Sox reputation and should be fired immediately. Bloom has been so destructive the last 3 years that he should be fired on the same day so all of Red Sox Nation can throw a party and fans can start buying tickets to the 2023 season knowing the owners showed integrity in firing these two clowns!!!
REVERSE THE CORA AND BLOOM CURSE WITH A SINGLE DAY FIRING TODAY!!!!!
Pulled – Great post as usual, thank you!!!
The empty Fenway seats and NESN ratings crash will eventually persuade John Henry to do what he should have done last year. Maybe we will see a mid-season managerial change like the Phillies did last year.
Time to buy some woosox tickets with all the minor moves .For all the Chaim Defenders. We had he done ( Devers , and Story) . He stripped a championship team apart, of players that were in their prime.
Bogeys contract was ridiculous they would have been tied town with him and Devers. He may have missed on a few trades but ownerships got their hands so far up this jews ass he missed kwanza. Hes building from the ground up with these moves, They’ve got a competitive club this year HES made GREAT budget signings like JT and Duvall Matasaka Yoshida is going to be a STAR for this team check the projections ‘B-Dog’ or should I say Bernie???
Bullpen has also improved mightily aswell so maybe you should go catch your local woosoox game while the real fans are at YAWKEY WAY Go BoSox
First off true fan . It isn’t Yawkey way anymore . You have a lot of faith in JT who’s 38 years old . I am remember as a kid I got excited too when they signed Andrea Dawson . Basically a shell of what he once was. As for Yoshida , he hasn’t even taken an mlb at bat yet ( played in Japan) You’re acting like that Yaz in his prime. I remember not so long ago major hype on this Japanese pitcher . Can you spell Dice K . How’d that Japanese star pan out ? Let’s get to Bogey now . They let that get too far for too long . They should have made him a real offer last offseason. Don’t forget he took a discount on the last deal . Why didn’t your Boy trade him during the season. I am sure he could have gotten another Franchy and some sh%t a level player. Come on, go put your Bloom jersey on and start defending him .
I will agree with you on the ownership. They are more concerned about changing street names and hiring the first woman of color than putting $ into the team . So you and the rest of the pink hat fans go drink your IPA and dance to Neil Diamond at an over priced ticket . I ll drink my Budweiser go Woosox.
Money hasn’t been the issue. We spend. It has been the allocation of that spending. This obsessive notion on flexibility, and short-term contracts. It may seem archaic these days but remember the days of having a team where you would pencil in players to play every day at a position they are best at?
I will enjoy my Neil Diamond with my pink hat and my tight jeans and an IPA In hand while this teams in the PLAYOFFS. Henry’s got this dude working overtime with his hands tied behind his back. Henry doesn’t wanna pay up now and everyone goes let’s blame the jew. He’s a scapegoat for this pathetic excuse of ownership. How the hell ya gonna dig a whole when all ya got is a spoon. I’ll see ya in october when the faithful is rocking and we’re singing Neil Diamond till the cows come home. oh and btw matasaka yoshida although he ain’t yaz. WILL be an ALL STAR this year
Thanks Billy some people think money grows like Neil Diamonds beautiful hair.
We agree on something . Neil does have some sweet hair . LMAO
Bloom is still at that Buffet Table after it has been out for three days. It’s a minor league contract but that 6.64 ERA should provide no help to this team. He is still a cheap budget GM Operations Guy. There is nothing in this team except for Devers that portrays winning. Fifth place behind Baltimore this year. This team is a major mess with players thrown at various positions and is going nowhere. Hopefully this is the end of Bloom this year.
A couple people pointed out something I didn’t think of. The Red Sox might be playing their hearts out for fourth place this season, but we signed enough mediocre major leaguers to build a really competitive AAA, and possibly AA team. There is your glass half full.