{"id":20235,"date":"2024-12-23T00:31:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T00:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=20235"},"modified":"2024-12-23T00:31:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T00:31:08","slug":"red-sox-sign-austin-adams-to-minors-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=20235","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox Sign Austin Adams To Minors Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<header>By Mark Polishuk | <time datetime=\"2024-12-22T16:56:13-06:00\">December 22, 2024<\/time> at <time datetime=\"2024-12-22T16:56:13-06:00\">4:56pm CDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div>\n<p>The Red Sox have signed right-hander <strong>Austin Adams<\/strong> to a minor league deal, KPRC\u2019s Ari Alexander reports.\u00a0 Adams will receive an invite to Boston\u2019s big league spring camp, and his contract contains over $1.5MM in bonuses based on appearances at the MLB level.<\/p>\n<p>Should Adams indeed cash in on those bonuses, it should bring his salary fairly close to the $1.7MM that MLBTR projected as his arbitration salary in 2025, though the Athletics outrighted him at season\u2019s end in what was essentially an early non-tender.\u00a0 Though $1.7MM isn\u2019t a big sum even for the A\u2019s, Adams\u2019 12% walk rate was on the high side, even though he had a 3.92 ERA and 27.7% strikeout rate over 41 1\/3 innings out of the Athletics\u2019 bullpen.<\/p>\n<p>These numbers are pretty close to a match to the 4.10 ERA, 31.6% strikeout rate, and 13.9% walk rate Adams has posted in his 155 2\/3 innings in the Show.\u00a0 His control problems also manifested themselves in a league-leading 24 batters hit by pitches in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Adams has appeared in each of the last eight Major League seasons, ranging from cups of coffee (two appearances in each of the 2018 and 2022) to larger workloads, like this past season in Oakland or his career high of 52 2\/3 innings with the 2021 Padres.\u00a0 Adams has seen action with five different teams at the big league level, including a three-year stint in San Diego from 2020-22 that was shortened by a flexor tendon surgery that cost him almost all of the 2022 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Sox will become the latest team to see if they can fix the 33-year-old\u2019s control and get his slider-heavy arsenal to deliver more consistent results at the big league level.\u00a0 Adams\u2019 strikeout potential is clearly evident, and even beyond the hidden-gem potential, he can bring some value to Boston\u2019s bullpen even if he only replicates his overall decent 2024 results.\u00a0 At the cost of just a minor league contract, there\u2019s no risk for the Red Sox in letting Adams compete for a job in spring camp.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p>View Comments (26)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Sox have signed right-hander Austin Adams to a minor league deal, KPRC&#8217;s Ari Alexander reports.\u00a0 Adams will receive &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":20237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[645],"class_list":["post-20235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","tag-austin-adams"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - 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