Sports Editorial, Dec 3 (EFE).- The Red Sox have reached an agreement with Cuban left-handed pitcher Aroldis Chapman, who will wear the Boston team’s jersey for the next Major League baseball season.
The Red Sox will pay the pitcher, as indicated this Tuesday by the official MLB.com portal, a salary of 10.7 million dollars in the 2025 campaign.
Chapman, 36, has experience in the American League East Division, where he played for seven seasons with the New York Yankees.
The Cuban, who in recent seasons has divided his time between the role of closer or reliever, will have the opportunity to be in charge of closing games full time with the Red Sox, since Curacao native Kenley Jansen is currently in the free agency.
The new member of the Red Sox played last season with the Pittsburgh Pirates, with whom he left a 5-5 record, with a 3.79 earned run percentage allowed in 68 games, in which he completed 14 of the 19 save opportunities. that were presented to him.
Chapman, who combines his fastball with a slider and sinker to get his opponents out of the way, averaged 14.3 strikeouts per nine innings of work on the mound.
The Holguín native, who only allowed five home runs in the campaign, limited the rival offense to a batting average against his pitches of .198, a sign of how dominant he was from the mound.
Chapman, who has 1,246 strikeouts in 760 innings, has also left his mark in the postseason, posting a 2.37 earned run average, with 10 saves in 27 games, and being crowned World Series champion with the Cubs. Chicago (2016) and with the Texas Rangers (2023).
During this journey, Chapman has been selected to the Major League All-Star Game seven times (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019 and 2021) and in 2019 he won the Mariano Rivera award, as the best reliever in the American League. .
