Where will former All-Star pitcher Michael Wacha sign?

With right-handed speedster Nathan Eovaldi agreeing to a deal with the Texas Rangers, the best remaining starting pitcher on the free agent market (as classified by Al Bat) is Michael Wacha. In fact, Wacha is the only starter left in the Top 50 free agents.

As things are, the The Baltimore Orioles are the only team known to have reviewed the 31-year-old, who is coming off his best season in a long time for the Red Sox. Wacha made 23 starts for Boston last season, working to a 3.32 ERA in 127 1/3 innings. That mark came with a rather pedestrian 20.2% strikeout rate and a solid 6% walk rate:

Also, his opponent’s .260 BABIP suggests there was a bit of good luck and sure enough, Wacha’s FIP stood at 4.14 for the season. Nonetheless, it was a much better performance than in recent times for Wacha.

From 2020-21, Wacha pitched 158 2/3 innings for the Mets and Rays, with a 5.39 ERA. Those two seasons came with better strikeout rates, but his hardhit percentage was comfortably the highest of his career, as was his home run rate.

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Wacha was once a highly touted prospect in the Cardinals’ system. Selected 19th overall in 2012, Wacha made his major league debut as a 21-year-old in 2013. Over his first three seasons, he pitched 353 innings with a 3.21 ERA and received the 2013 NLCS MVP award for his efforts. in that series against the Dodgers.

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Raphael Martinez

I am a fan of the King of Sports, especially the Boston Red Sox in MLB and in general all of Mexican baseball. This profession has given me the opportunity to cover big events such as the Caribbean Series, LMB All Star, LMP (uninterrupted since 2009), important players’ signatures. I had the chance to attend the 2013 World Classic in Arizona, USA, albeit as an amateur. Apart from this beautiful sport, I love basketball, where I have also narrated games and even an NBA friendly 10 years ago, but baseball is in my veins. Graduated in Communication Sciences from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS). , from which I graduated in 2011. I was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa and started in the world of sports journalism in 2004 in the newspaper El Sol de Mazatlán, where I was a baseball columnist and reporter at the same time. In January 2009 I arrived at El Debate as a journalist reporter and it took almost six years (in the first stage), until in November 2014 I emigrated to radio, providing my services at Línea Directa-Grupo RSN. My cycle there ended in July 2019 and a few days later, El Debate gave me another opportunity to work and opened the doors for me again. That is how I came to Al Bat, where I have been since 2019 as a web journalist.

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