{"id":20689,"date":"2024-12-24T12:34:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T12:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=20689"},"modified":"2024-12-24T12:34:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T12:34:57","slug":"breaking-red-sox-predicted-to-sign-36-million-all-star-pitcher-from-phillies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=20689","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Red Sox Predicted to Sign $36 Million All-Star Pitcher From Phillies!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-13752\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-2177676828-e1734981414785.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" alt=\"BREAKING: Red Sox Predicted to Sign $36 Million All-Star Pitcher From Phillies - 24\/7 News America\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<p>Red Sox predicted target Jeff Hoffman<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Fresh off the biggest signing of the offseason so far, landing oft-injured starter Walker Buehler on a one-year, $21 million contract, the\u00a0Red Sox\u00a0figure to remain active in the coming days, as they seek to finish off the work of bulking up the back end of their bullpen while also trying to find a righthanded power bat they can drop into the middle of their lineup.<\/p>\n<p>There are two relief arms of notable value on the market, and the Red Sox may be in position to land one of them. Already, the Red Sox have added Aroldis Chapman to the bullpen, who joins Justin Slaton and Liam Hendriks as the team\u2019s likely top late-inning options. The Red Sox have been frequently connected to Marlins closer Tanner Scott, and there could be some momentum to pursue him now with the starting rotation pretty well set.<\/p>\n<p>But at Bleacher Report, the prediction is that the Red Sox will, indeed, land a star reliever\u2013but that they\u2019ll add Jeff Hoffman from the\u00a0Phillies,\u00a0not Scott.<\/p>\n<h2>Jeff Hoffman an \u2018Underrated\u2019 Option<\/h2>\n<p>On Monday,\u00a0Zachary Rymer of B\/R\u00a0listed \u201cunderrated\u201d remaining free agents, and has Hoffman on the list, predicted to land with Boston on a hefty three-year, $36 million contract. The 31-year-old Hoffman pitched 68 games last year, and struck out 89 in 66 innings, with a 2.17 ERA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Wrote Rymer: \u201cJeff Hoffman was an All-Star this past year, so it\u2019s not as if he\u2019s some kind of mystery man.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cAll the same, it\u2019s worth acknowledging just how terrific the righty has been over the last two seasons. We\u2019re talking a 2.28 ERA and a 33.4 strikeout percentage, figures that rank sixth and eighth among right-handed relievers.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cHoffman is this good precisely because he has two pitches that hitters just can\u2019t hit. One is an upper-90s fastball against which hitters batted .198 in 2024. He also has a slider that has limited hitters to a .136 average over the last two seasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Red Sox Seeking Velocity, Swings-&amp;-Misses<\/h2>\n<p>At the outset of\u00a0MLB\u00a0free agency, Red Sox chief Craig Breslow spoke about the need to upgrade the team\u2019s bullpen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEspecially when you\u2019re bringing guys in with runners on base in leverage situations, the ability to get outs without putting the ball in play is really, really valuable,\u201d Breslow said (via\u00a0MassLive). \u201cSo I think pushing velocity on the development side and then also seeking relievers that have the ability to get swings and misses is going to be a priority for us \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the first half, we rode Bernie (Brennan Bernadino) pretty hard and he was really good for us,\u201d Breslow said. \u201cThere were times when (Cam) Booser was really effective, when Bailey (Horn), when Zach (Penrod) (were effective). But I think generally as we think about improving the bullpen, adding to that group with a left-handed reliever is something we\u2019re very open to.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Sox predicted target Jeff Hoffman Fresh off the biggest signing of the offseason so far, landing oft-injured starter Walker Buehler on a one-year, $21 million contract,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: Red Sox Predicted to Sign $36 Million All-Star Pitcher From Phillies!! - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=20689\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING: Red Sox Predicted to Sign $36 Million All-Star Pitcher From Phillies!! 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