The Red Sox are in agreement with lefty reliever Danny Coulombe on a one-year deal, reports Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic. Boston will need to open a 40-man roster spot once the signing is official. It’s a $1MM guarantee for the ALIGND Sports Agency client, reports Chris Cotillo of MassLive.
More to come.
Good move, the waiting finally paid off!
Great news!
I had forgotten he was still available wow…
Those 15 games in Texas probably cost him 5M or more and multi year deal. He had been killing it as a twin last year
Romy to 60 day to make room for Coulombe incoming
Or Casas.
Can’t understand why it took so long for him to find a team.
Lefties getting paid tonight!
Wondered if they might have a look at a reunion with Kopech. That’s why I added him in the league. Could use another righty arm in the pen too.
Looks like it’s in the 1M range
This has felt like the perfect fit all offseason.
Made too much sense.
Danny Coulombe!!!!! play tessie will love this
Coulombe has to be one of the most disrespected players lately. Get non tendered by Baltimore for no reason, signs a modest deal relatively late last year, and now doesn’t get signed until we’re about two weeks out from opening day. All the guy does is put up results
He probably doesn’t throw 100 mph fastballs and have spin rates in the upper 5%.
He just does a fairly consistently good job.
I wonder how many of these GMs just look at numbers and not results.
Numbers are literally results.
Numbers are misleading.
“Numbers” say Skenes is a .500 pitcher by W/L. Id argue that does not reflect his results on the field.
Don’t patronize me. I’m not grotesquely stupid.
Made way too much sense not to happen. Traded Bernardino and Murphy for some reason and had a clear lefty shortage in the pen. About time
Chuck – The Red Sox needed the roster spots for Rule 5 adds at the time, and Drohan and Harrison were seen as better options. When Durbin popped up they ended up trading Drohan and Harrison in that deal which left them short.
Matz and Wilson – free agent
Murphy, Bernardino, Drohan, Harrison – trades
The Red Sox have plenty of left handed pitching in the system, they still want to try them as starers.
Hayden Mullins and Eduardo Rivera are well regarded lefties who may make their MLB debut later this year from the farm . Early, Tolle, Bennett are all available if the Red sox want them in the bullpen from the left side.
Surprised he was out there this long.
Why the orioles didnt bring him back is a mystery
Rocked in Texas. 3 bombs in 12 innings.36 years old. I don’t know. Coin flip.
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Check his stats from minny last year. 40 games vs 15 games. Hope that’s the one we get.
He really just had 2 terrible appearances with TEX which combined for 6 of the 7 runs he allowed in a combined 0.1 IP. But 12 other 13 appearances with them were scoreless.
Age could catch up to him at any time, but I’ll take that bet on his overall track record, especially where it fills a big team need.
With all the stats that GMs have now I wonder whether many knew that he had just two awful outings.
at $1MM, you can give him a short leash and then DFA him when another arm they prefer is available. effectively league min for a lefty that was effective as recently as 16 games ago.
“ One more thing…”
Great move. LH reliever was one of the things I was most worried about with this club. When I saw Coulombe was still a free agent I hoped a deal like this would happen.
Ag36.11yrs. Better than League avg in ba,obp,slg,Ops,babip,hr%,K%,EV,LD,FB%. Career bb%8.8,
Mlb avg 8.3%.
Good signing for $1 million.
(Please forgive the difficult reading, not very good at this keyboard)