December 28: The Marlins have officially announced the Fairbanks signing. His Christmas Eve deal was pending a physical, which he seems to have passed. Miami had room on the 40-man roster after trading Dane Myers to Cincinnati yesterday. With Fairbanks now on board, the Marlins 40-man is back up to 40.
December 24: The Marlins and reliever Pete Fairbanks are in agreement on a contract, according to Will Sammon of the Athletic. It is a one-year, $13MM contract for the Republik Sports client, according to Jeff Passan of ESPN. Per Mark Feinsand of MLB.com, the deal includes a $1MM signing bonus and another $1MM in incentives based on appearances. Fairbanks will also receive a bonus of $500,000 if he is traded. The deal is pending a physical. The Marlins have a full 40-man roster and will need to make a corresponding move to make this official.
Fairbanks, who turned 32 last week, is coming off a 2.83 ERA in 60 1/3 innings for the Rays in 2025. Tampa held an $11MM club option on his services for 2026, but they instead paid him a $1MM buyout. We at MLBTR ranked him No. 44 on our Top 50 Free Agents list and projected a two-year, $18MM contract. He now heads to the Marlins on a shorter deal with a higher annual salary and figures to be the team’s closer next year.
The right-hander debuted in 2019 and has pitched 265 1/3 innings with a 3.19 ERA in his seven seasons with the Rays. In that time, Fairbanks has struck out 30.0% of hitters against a 9.3% walk rate thanks to an upper-90s fastball and a mid-80s slider which he uses 44.1% of the time. He also gets groundballs at an above-average 45.1% rate and generally keeps the ball in the park, allowing just 0.81 HR/9.
He has also frequently dealt with injuries, making seven trips to the injured list from 2021-24. He had better health luck this year, as he avoided the injured list and set a career high with 60 1/3 innings pitched. When he’s healthy, Fairbanks is a dominant back-end reliever. In 151 innings as the Rays’ closer from 2023-25, he had a 2.98 ERA while posting a 18.9% K-BB rate and earning 75 saves, which was 12th-highest in the league in that span.
That largely continued in 2025, albeit with a drop in Fairbanks’ advanced metrics. After striking out 37.0% of hitters as recently as 2023, that has fallen to 23.8% in 2024 and 24.2% in 2025. That is still plenty effective, especially as he has lowered his walk rate from 10.9% in 2023 to 7.4% this year. However, it has also come with an uptick in average exit velocity. Hitters averaged 85.7 mph off the bat against Fairbanks in 2023, but that rose to 90.2 mph in 2025. Meanwhile, his four-seamer now sits at 97.3 mph after averaging 98.9 mph in 2023.
Nonetheless, the fact that the current version of Fairbanks has better-than-average strikeout and walk rates with 90th-percentile fastball velocity means that he is still an effective reliever. If anything, the move by the Rays to decline his option was financially motivated. Tampa Bay’s payroll usually ranks near the bottom of the league (29th out of 30 in 2025). They previously signed Fairbanks to a three-year, $12MM extension in January 2023. While $4MM was a comfortable price range for the team, $11MM may have simply been too high a price to commit to one reliever, even one as effective as Fairbanks.
Indeed, the club tried to trade Fairbanks after the season ended, but they couldn’t find any takers. That ended up being a moot point, as he garnered plenty of interest from teams around the league. The Marlins, Diamondbacks, White Sox, and Tigers were publicly known to be interested in the right-hander. Miami always seemed like a logical fit, given the connection between Fairbanks and president of baseball operations Peter Bendix from their time with the Rays.
With the addition of Fairbanks, the Marlins have fortified a bullpen which ranked 23rd in the league with a 4.27 ERA and 17th with a 14.1% K-BB rate in 2025. The best performer of the bunch was right-hander Ronny Henriquez. The 25-year-old pitched 73 innings over 69 appearances this year with a 2.22 ERA and a 32.3% strikeout rate. His 1.3 fWAR was a team high for relievers, while his peripheral stats were slightly higher than his ERA but still excellent. He also earned seven saves throughout the season. It was the best possible outcome for the Marlins, who acquired Henriquez as a waiver pickup last offseason. Unfortunately, news broke two days ago that the righty underwent an internal brace procedure on his throwing elbow. As a result, he will miss the entire 2026 season.
Including Henriquez, the team got a good amount of volume from its bullpen in 2025. Seven Marlins relievers pitched at least 50 innings, with Tyler Phillips’s 77 2/3 innings leading the group. He pitched to a 2.78 ERA and got groundballs at a well-above-average 55.6% rate, albeit with just a 16.6% strikeout rate and middling peripherals. Calvin Faucher and Lake Bachar had ERAs of 3.28 and 3.78, respectively, but with expected values in the mid-4.00s. Meanwhile, Anthony Bender, Cade Gibson, and Valente Bellozo had solid groundball rates but below-average strikeout numbers. The signing of Fairbanks upgrades the group with more velocity, strikeouts, and groundballs while covering for Henriquez’s injury and taking pressure off the younger arms.
According to RosterResource, the signing of Fairbanks brings the Marlins’ projected payroll to $73MM, a slight bump from $70MM in 2025. That figure includes just over $15MM for eight arbitration-eligible players, with $2MM of that going to the recently-signed Christopher Morel (previously non-tendered by the Rays). So far, Morel and Fairbanks have been the club’s only big-league free agent signings, though the club is reportedly willing to spend more than usual this offseason.
Photos courtesy of Nathan Ray Seebeck and Kim Klement, Imagn Images
damnit
Congratulations Pete! Hopefully we’ll see you in July!
Yeah he’s already spending that 500K for being traded in his head. Smart move for the Fish.
Yup. Top flight closers bring nice prospects come deadline time.
Amazing how everyone is automatically assuming that the Marlins will be out of the race by then. They must have not paifd attention last year.
But I guess this is the line of thinking that made it hurt more when the Marlins swept the Yankees in the series this past season and how they eliminated the Mets on the final day of the season again – both cases sending the fans from those teams into depressions and shock because they clearly hadn’t noticed how the Marlins were playing and how their season went.
Agree. The Marlins have a decent chance of making the postseason, probably better than two of the NL teams who made it last season.
They set the precedent for about 33 years. Any time they look like they’re building something (and after they won those two world series), they dump the roster, slash payroll, and then pocket the profits.
Pen market is nearly dry.
And also why Zerpa and Ferrer were traded for such premium returns.
That’s why we need to deal Peralta and Matsui. Time to sell high.
Low pressure environment, he should do well there.
Ballpark helps too Fever, especially after Steinbrenner Field. I was thinking $12m per but I also thought a two year deal or with a player’s option.
He’ll be moved at the deadline anyway.
Agent did good to get that $500k trade bonus.
Who says he can’t pitch in high pressure environs?
Seriously. Through most of his career he’s been pitching for a contending rays team.
Hank – I can always count on you to dispute everything I write ;O)
Among all qualified MLB relievers he ranks 64th in Clutch.
Or you could have, ya know, actually watched the games. If you did, you wouldn’t have missed chokejobs like this:
mlb.com/redsox/video/ceddanne-rafaela-homers-13-on…
mlb.com/news/josh-h-smith-scores-winner-on-wild-pi…
reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/1dkmife/highlight_f…
I had Fairbanks on my fantasy team last year. Confirmed choke artist.
Dang! Links to choke jobs! That’s a commitment there, well done…
Okay so for 2025, BR has his OPS against in High Leverage situations as 0.575, in Medium 0.698, and in Low 0.611;
He did has 1.073 OPS against in his 3 extra innings appearances.
Relievers are going to fail, it’s relative how often I suppose
64 out of 147 and his clutch stat is positive 0.02, barely so, but positive nonetheless,
Peter Bendix strikes again.
when did he strike previously?
The big Christopher Morel signing 🙂
What about William Bendix (Life of Riley, The Babe Ruth Story and Kill the Umpire)?
Great actor!
stunned by the amount, since Rays were unable to trade him when he was at 11m the marlins paying 13m seems rather surprising
Had him pegged for at least a couple years. Odd.
@a’s. Im sure they had to add a couple million to get it done.
11m + prospect cost likely drove teams away.
@A’s fan
Exactly, I immediately thought the amount couldn’t be right! They could have saved a couple million dollars by giving the Rays a PTBNL or anything really. My guess is they were going to try and land one of the bigger fish in the relief FA market, and when that fell through they pivoted to Fairbanks. I’m guessing he wasn’t their main target when they had the option to trade something for him.
A’s Fan
No. The Marlins were probably not interested back then. Their projected closer Rony just had surgery for a recent injury. So, this seemingly reflects a new need.
Go, Sacramento A’s!
Ronny Henriquez underwent internal brace surgery and will miss the 2026 season.
Henriquez looked like a legitimate closing candidate during a breakthrough 2025.
Hence the sudden new need for a closer.
Happy holidays to all.
Didn’t have to give a player so just going FA for +$2 mil makes some sense. Plus Fairbanks nearly being the last pen man standing probably boosted his value.
The market changes. There’s also a supply and demand issue during that time. Trade value is lowered because there’s plenty of teams deciding to do the same thing you’re trying to do and rather than give the player away at a lesser price you non tender him and he becomes a free agent and cost the team acquiring him a couple extra million because 29 teams could bid on him.
The bigger question if you want to use hindsight is why didn’t they trade him at the deadline if they knew they didn’t want to pay him 11 million this year?
They probably tried trading him but teams just weren’t biting.
Cheap
Silly signing at that amount. He should been a 2×18-20 candidate
He probably got offers in that realm, but Miami’s offer was more enticing to him.
And, if he already has a home in FL, it’s a win for him and half his annual taxes.
Something’s got to be wrong with this guy if the Rays couldn’t trade him and the Marlins signed him for this little.
Underlying numbers ain’t good
Steinbrenner Field didn’t help. Amount is not little. One year is surprising but it could be his call.
Someone on here said he has a condition that makes his hand go numb in colder weather. If true that would explain some things.
It’s called Raynaud’s disease and I have it too, it is really annoying.
Maxime Raynaud has good hands and will eventually start in the NBA.
Pete Fairbanks is staying with one of the Florida clubs furthest from the city of Fairbanks, Alaska.
In Fairbanks, Alaska, if you are cold in the Winter time at home, the locals recommend that you stand in the corner. “It’s always 90 degrees there.”
He lost his high fastball and began going slider heavy. Still hitting 99 but locating badly.
This little?
He will get traded at the deadline
Boy that’s a lot for Fairbanks, especially since the Marlins are one of those teams that seems to be able to manufacture pitchers out of thin air. What about the hitting side?
Vamooooooooos! C’mooooooonnnnn!!!
This is half homework done. Now get at least another impactful bat.
I’m so happy
Impatient marlins fans, how we feelin?
Good get but need one more bullpen arm.
Who closes for the Rays? Jax or Uceta?
yes
Uceta
Only one year is as surprising as it being Miami.
Seems like an overpay but even with this deal Miami will only have a luxury tax payroll around $80 million. Revenue sharing alone should cover most of that. So I guess the Marlins can afford to pay a little above market for Fairbanks.
Cashman!!! What’s going on? Start earning your paycheck
@mlb
Yanks acquired two guys that collectively closed 80 games last year. Maybe Fairbanks wanted to go somewhere that offered him a chance to close? The Marlins’ Faucher doesn’t exactly have a stranglehold on the closer role so maybe Fairbanks was offered a chance to lock that down? You have to look at FA as a 2 way street buddy. But everyone is hellbent on being a Yankee. Also, one can argue that outspending the comp and offering $13 mi + 110% luxury tax penalty isn’t the best investment for to fill a 6th inning role.
At this point, a fan who is somehow a fan of two NBA teams shouldn’t really lecture anyone on why the Yankees GM is so lax on free agency this year.
SbBunchaNumbers
“At this point, a fan who is somehow a fan of two NBA teams shouldn’t really lecture anyone on why the Yankees GM is so lax on free agency this year.”
Their comment shows A LOT more thoughtfulness and knowledge than yours does.
@Stein
a) not “lecturing” anyone b) why does who I for for in the nba mean anything to you? I’m a Yankee fan too.
He’ll easily be the closer there.
Trade him at the deadline
For all the rumors of the White Sox being in on him, seems like they got a steal on Newcomb comparatively.
Agreed-WSox also have no business paying 8 figures to a closer even for a season. JR being frugal, Getz should save his allowance for later on an OF or starter. Hopefully they can pay half of LRJ and/or Benintendi salaries at some point in ’26 to get the comfortable check cashing culture vets out. They need to instill winning attitude in locker room like is beginning to happen on gridiron with leadership worthy of respect.
Bendix was a member of the Rays front office so he probably has seen something he likes. Still a good chance he gets flipped at the deadline of the Marlins fall off a cliff.
The rays F that one up
How could the Rays not find anyone to trade him to?
Teams were likely either concerned about the downward trend in stats, cost, or didn’t want to hand over prospects AND pay 11m for the season.
Raynaud’s syndrome. It only affects him out of town… out of dome
Trust me, they tried. No one bit
It’s known that Fairbanks’s body responds better to warmer weather. I can’t recall completely, but like a nerve issue in his fingers, correct? Also, the Bendix connection. So I’m not shocked by this signing and I’m pretty sure I said as much recently, but still another guy on my wishlist gone. No biggie, but yeah…
Drives me nuts. You mean to tell me Stearns/Cohen couldn’t scrounge up a measly 13M for quality pitcher like Fairbanks?
@Joel
Real talk, did you ever consider this is a binary decision and that a teams want doesn’t override what the player wants? Being a closer pays more than being a middle innings arm. With Devin Williams and Luke Weaver in fold, the Mets have committed $73 million dollars. Unless both ate an adjunct failure there’s no way Fairbanks will become the closer and make it more difficult to gain leverage to secure a longer- term, more lucrative deal next year when he re-enters FA a year older. Make it makes sense. And keep in mind the luxury tax they would have to pay on a $13+ mil 1 year deal.
Sure, it’s possible he turned the Mets down. If future earnings was the issue, you could sweeten it if you had to. You can rotate closers, you know. It’s not like Williams is a sure thing like Diaz is (was). Luxury tax on $13 is a pittance in Cohen’s world. Do you recall how bad Mets bp was apart from Diaz? How Brazoban was so bad they had to send him down? Go down the list of current Mets relievers–Gerber, Lovelady, and the completely untested Ross– and tell me that Fairbanks wouldn’t improve this team a good bit.
@Joel
So ignore the whole point that Fairbanks has a better shot of setting himself up for a multi year contract by being the marlins closer than part of some rotation of guys earning a guaranteed $73 mil? Gotcha…haha.
Oh, I think it’s a valid point. It’s just not the only thing in play.
Yeah, Williams is a sure thing. One down season where all his luck metrics like strand rate went the wrong way doesn’t mean he’s not still a legit closer. All the important numbers like swinging strike rate are still elite.
Well, I’m glad they signed him and I hope he comes through. We had a sure thing and he’s gone.
Awful contract and NY it would be even higher.
Should have signed and traded him
They tried trading him during the season, no one bit.
Every day is a new opportunity
Clearly a team did want him so they did miss an opportunity and the marlins could have saved money
3 million by both teams was lost by not signing and trading
He was already signed for $11MM in 2026. The team declined the option.
I already knew that
They could have take the option and saved a million dollars and traded him and the marlins would have saved 2 million
Good get for the Fish.
Dbacks don’t need any stinking’ closers — AGAIN!!
It’ll be interesting if he’s still going heavy slider. He lost his high fastball last year and began getting hurt by his slider, which is good but hitters began sitting on it.
“Fairbanks will also receive a bonus of $500,000 if he is traded.”
When. When he is traded.
They won’t trade him if they contend, and the off season isn’t over. Plenty of talent available since both NY teams have decided to sit out the rest of the way (per their fans on this site).
Thank you.
Good for you! Go Fish…
😛
LOL, Marlins.
Here is a team with a payroll of $70M, maybe $75M, this year. They require at least 10 additional wins to get a whiff of the playoffs. (They played more like a 76-win team last season. Lots of good fortune to win 79 games.) So what do they do? They spend approximately 20% of their payroll on ONE player who will contribute ONE extra win, at best! More likely, it will be a wash as they use Fairbanks in a role where another pitcher might have contributed 1/2 of a WAR. Net difference from 2025 – approximately none.
Someone who gets it
They’re damned if they, they’re damned if they don’t. Give me a break.
The point is not about spending money. The point is about spending money on someone who will be helpful.
Why didn’t Tampa pick up the option and trade him? Couldn’t bother calling the only other in state team?
Couldn’t trade him before
Mets were “this close” or something
Holy cr@p! Jed can’t even. Outbid the Marlins
He isn’t that stupid
Well he was out outbid by the Marlins.
Awful contract so good for Cubs
How so. Fairbanks Would’ve been a solid signing
Someone else who gets it
Cubs ain’t singing nothing but guys from the island of misfit toys, especially if they cost less than 5 mil
Expensive. Performance isn’t worth $. Better relievers were signed for less. Better relievers signed for more. Better relievers were available in trade.
Giants should’ve offered a two-year deal. So should a lot of teams TBQH.
Or get a better cheaper option
Last hope gone for the Cubs, unless Palencia proves he is more than a one-year wonder–and he will more probably regress or get hurt.
This Brett Taylor-ish nonsense about the Cubs being so, so good at pulling together an effective bullpen out of spare parts–it’s mostly selective memory and wishful thinking. The Cubs have sometimes been somewhat good at that–but it really isn’t a good plan.
Reportedly, the Cubs made offers to Helsley and Williams, and maybe others, but the offers were not good enough. Hoyer seems only intermittently aware that relief pitching is important, and then the thought quickly passes. Hoyer just isn’t a serious baseball man, never has been.
When I came to baseball in about 1960, relief pitchers were mostly former starters who weren’t good enough to be starters anymore. The idea of the relief specialist or closer was just beginning to take hold, among more progressive franchises, of which the Wrigley-era Cubs were not one. Hoyer’s mentality is not exactly like that, but close: to him, relievers by definition are supposed to be marginal, and paid as such.
Similar to John Hart’s philosophy in CLE in the 90s. They had a murderers row lineup, but Hart stated more than once that he felt SPs were overrated and overpriced. That theory, of course, never translated into any rings.
@Solaris: And the Cubs, to put it mildly, do not have a Murderers Row lineup.
Those Indians still were great teams. They just didn’t have enough luck in the playoffs or they may well have won.
They’re smarter paying Palencia whatever he’s making to close.
Alan you must be about 75 years old if I did the math right.
About.
Why is his market so dry that he landed with Miami? I would have loved Baltimore to sign him and am surprised he didn’t go to a better team in general.
Massive overpay. He was in insane demand unless Miami bid against themselves.
I agree. Most players whose options were declined, end up signing for less money, not more. Being the last option available likely helped his market, though I never thought his option was unreasonable.
If the Marlins got him for half of that you’d be saying the same thing. Give me a break.
Fairbanks 1/13
Devin the disaster 3/51
Lol
Seems eminently reasonable. And a near cert for a mid season trade.
Pete will most likely be traded to a contender at the deadline.
That and he collects another $500k when it happens. Agent did a nice job for his client.
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Maybe they have plan to improve him but as is huge over pay.
Maybe 20% to 25% overpay IMO
40
Nah
Why is 13 million too much for an All-Star closer?
It is reasonable if you have a $150 million payroll, but I think very low budget teams should usually focus on starting position players and starting pitchers.
All star just means you had a few good months in a irrelevant stat category.
And was he a all star closer?
Interesting how the bottom dwellers in payroll are finally spending a bit with a year left before this next contentious CBA agreement coming.
Type o…. Fairbanks will get a 500,000$ bonus “WHEN” he is traded.
They have a solid team. Bright future. The joke is old.
Is this Bruce Sherman?
The relief pitching free agent market is now almost dry. I wonder if this is what AJ Preller has been waiting for to trade from our pen to fill other needs. We have a surplus and they just got more expensive, supply and demand!
This movement by Pirates and Marlins almost feels so that they can say “See! We do try to spend!” When the conversations about the lock out take place
They’re damned if they do, they’re damned if they don’t. Give me a break.
Florida man stays in Florida
Great job Hoyer you underachieved again what a joke
The white Sox and pirates are Marlins are spending more than us. 3..2…1 until we hear how we made a competitive offer for Imai but bowed out when crunch time came.
Still more action than the Red Sox are gettin’. Someone send a welfare check to the Breslow’s.
Nice signing by marlins. Injury concerns prevented a bigger contract. He will do well and if traded will yield a decent return
It’s official: Pete is going to the opposite corner of the country from Fairbanks
How the hell did I get this one right in the FA contest? Two back of the leader in an 18-way tie for 8th, it’s shaping up to be a career year!!! (Who am I kidding, it already is!!! Never more than 9 correct in the past ….)
Go Jays!
Same here and I’m right there tied for 8th with you as well.
It’s funny because I said to myself who would have predicted he would go to Miami and not get scooped up by a contender with established closer and use him for set up. Then I saw your comment and went to check my prediction page and wasn’t sure why I chose Miami for him but sure enough I did!
Good luck moving forward, hope you do well.
Could be a good pickup for the Fish. Nice to see the Marlins swimming in free agent waters rather than just scraping the filter
Holy cow! I thought he was going to Toronto. Happy early Christmas party to the Marlin fans by the Marlins!
Does a player like Fairbanks have any pride at all or any desire to win when he signs with a club like the Marlins….? It baffles me how many professional sports ppl just want a paycheck.
The Marlins were only 4 GB of the Reds in 2025
To you, its just a game. To him, its a paycheck. You may work for a company I never heard of. Why aren’t you working for Amazon? Don’t you want to work for one of the largest revenue generating companies?!!! Poor choice on your part. Probably only want a paycheck.
Dbacks should have signed Fairbanks.
nuts. I thought he’d be a great addition to the Baltimore Pen, esp as he was very familiar with the ALE.
Marlins make a signing: Bad signing, overpay
Marlins make a trade: they got fleeced
Marlins don’t spend: they’re a joke
Marlins do spend: bad signing
They’re damned if they do; they’re damned if they don’t. Give me a break.
Good signing Miami.
Ps: the 10 people in the stadium joke isn’t funny.
Because there were 12 people at the stadium?
Halarious lol
The funniest statements always have the ring of truth to them.
The Rays are trying to pull out all the stops to assemble a trade package for Ketel Marte.
Would have loved to of seen him in Baltimore. Expensive, but worth it.
Marlins bullpen is pretty solid with alot of depth.
Probably need another OF bat, 1B and another starting pitcher.
Jeter making Jeter moves.
Jeter left the Marlins almost four years ago.
Trying to decide who is more jealous. U or ur christmas wife.
This is not a “sign for 3 years” arm and Miami didn’t do that. Good signing.
I was kinda hoping the Braves would sign him to a similar deal but this is prob just a bit to expensive for where they currently stand and their need for him. But if he was our 3rd best reliever, our bullpen would have been truly stacked.
They could of offered him a guaranteed 2 years at 9.75 each with an option for a third combined with a signing bonus paid after he ends his contract with them, which could of been years from now, if they were serious about acquiring his services. It would have been less per year but a guaranteed 19.5 mil over two years which is more overall than he is going to be receiving. I think he’d have taken that because this guy loves to play. You can see it all over him when he is on the mound. He is just happy to be relevant and playing and would have taken less per year and more overall to play guaranteed baseball at the big league level for a longer time period.
Outlaw Pete
Finally a move that I like!
Hmmm, it only took the Marlins over 5 years and a couple of GMs to finally add a proven Closer. Hopefully this is the end of guys like Anthony Bass, Yimi Garcia, Dylan Floro, Tanner ‘Fool’s Gold’ Scott, and some other names I can’t remember who never saw a lead that they couldn’t blow.
Ahhh, I reminisce about Kim Ng’s Day 1 statement that the priority for her was to “fix the bullpen”…not too long before she made her big signing of Mr. Bass – the legend who accumulated a grand total of 0 Saves in his entire Marlins career. But I have to admit that Ng was an improvement over Mike Hill. Good thing MLB brought that duo to run the league in different capacities.
PS: Good luck Team USA with Hill as the GM or whatever title he has there. Don’t let Mike make any trades. I know, I know, he can’t make trades. But make sure he knows that. He’ll agree because, and Marlins fans, Marlins media, and of course Jeffrey Loria and Dave Sampson can all confirm that Mike always says ‘yes’ and agrees to what his bosses want.
They should of given him 2 years 22 mil or at least an option for a second year- because if he has a great year or even a decent one , he is going to be poised to ask for even more money next year which is going to send the marlins into looking elsewhere to replace him.
This makes no sense. A 1 year deal worth 13-14 mil for a guy with a very solid track record in recent years who has experience closing out games for three years in a row who albeit had a 2025 with a few less strikeouts… he is worth more and most definitely worth 2 years with an option for a third. Now next year he is going to be signed on a 1 year deal again because he will be even older. Various mlb teams gave guys who are younger with much less experience, some unproven really, two year deals worth 22-30 mil to pitch in their bullpens, respectively. You’re telling me that Fairbanks isn’t worth 2 years and 20 mil? Please…
Something is guiding this deal and the terms being setup on an annual basis and I don’t quite know what exactly but I suspect it’s health related.