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Athletics To Sign Rich Hill
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By Steve Adams | November 17, 2015 at 8:33pm CST
The Athletics have agreed to terms with free agent left-hander Rich Hill,
reports Robert Murray of Baseball Essential. The deal is pending a physical.
Yahoo’s Jeff Passan tweets that it’s a one-year deal with a $6MM guarantee.
運動家簽下了Rich Hill，6M/1YR。
Earlier tonight, SB Nation’s Chris Cotillo listed the A’s as one of the
teams in the mix for hill, noting that one official involved in the bidding
considered Oakland one of the favorites (links to Twitter). Passan notes
(Twitter link) that Hill turned down a more lucrative offer from another club
due to the promise of a spot in the club’s rotation.
Few would’ve believed prior to — or even 75 percent of the way through —
the 2015 season that a payday like this was in the cards for Hill, who at 35
years of age had spent the past several seasons bouncing around the league as
a lefty reliever. Hill’s claim to fame dated all the way back to 2007, when
he punched out 183 batters in 195 innings of 3.92 ERA ball for the Cubs as a
27-year-old. Hill didn’t replicate that success in 2008, though, and
injuries and poor performance limited his role around the league for the next
eight seasons.
這邊描述35歲Hill過去的紀錄，近年多為後援出賽，曾在2007年的小熊隊投好投滿先發
一整季，成績如下：
W - L ERA IP R ER SO ERA+ FIP WHIP
11 - 8 3.92 195.0 89 85 183 118 4.32 1.195
Released from the Nationals’ Triple-A club this summer, Hill latched on with
the Red Sox — the same organization with which he spent the 2010-12 seasons.
Despite three years in the organization, Hill logged just 31 2/3 big league
innings in that stretch, but a strong season at Triple-A led the 2015 Sox to
give him a few starts at season’s end, and Hill capitalized in more emphatic
fashion than most could’ve imagined.
今年夏天期間被國民釋出後，他去了紅襪，包含今年已經有四個球季在這，而在3A的好表
現讓他升上了大聯盟。
In 29 innings (four starts) with the Sox, Hill allowed a grand total of five
earned runs, striking out 36 batters against just five walks to complement a
48.4 percent ground-ball rate. Hill ditched his two-seam fastball and reduced
the usage of his four-seamer in 2015 as well, trading in some of his 90 mph
for a dramatic increase in curveballs. The results were outstanding, and the
endgame will be a guaranteed payday that is six times greater than Hill’s
previous career-high single-season salary of $1MM.
這邊描述今年在大聯盟的好表現，2015年的尾聲Rich Hill在紅襪隊大殺四方，
主投四場先發有一場完投勝，成績如下：
W - L ERA IP R ER SO BB CG FIP WHIP
2 - 1 1.55 29.0 5 5 36 5 1 2.27 0.655
而Rich Hill薪資生涯最高的一年是在2013年的印地安人，有1M。
Hill joins a rotation picture led by ace Sonny Gray but also featuring
veteran righty Jesse Chavez and a slew of younger arms including Jesse Hahn,
Chris Bassitt, Kendall Graveman, Sean Nolin and Aaron Brooks. Former
mainstays Jarrod Parker and A.J. Griffin will hope to return to the fold
after missing each of the past two seasons due to arm surgery, and lefty Drew
Pomeranz is also an option for Oakland manager Bob Melvin (though he had
greater success working out of the bullpen).
未來運動家隊的輪值狀況：
1. 比較穩定的是：Sonny Gray(1st, Ace)、Jesse Chavez。
2. 其他年輕的先發有：Jesse Hahn、Chris Bassitt、Kendall Graveman、Sean Nolin、
Aaron Brooks。
3. Jarrod Parker和A.J. Griffin則因為手臂手術miss了過去兩個球季，希望能回的來。
4. Drew Pomeranz也是其中一個選擇，今年投過九場先發，但在後援方面也表現不錯。
For the Athletics, it’s a risk to give $6MM to a pitcher with such a limited
track record and a wide-ranging history of injuries, but the team has quite a
bit of pitching depth and can reasonably absorb the blow if Hill misses a
significant portion of the season on the disabled list. And, if Hill is able
to deliver even a handful of starts resembling his September work in 2015, he
could turn out to be one of the biggest free-agent bargains of the offseason.
對運動家來說，給Rich Hill一年6M的薪水是很有風險的，原因不出過去的紀錄和豐富的
傷病史，但如果Rich Hill能健康出賽的話，這樣投資可以增加投手深度。並且，如果他能
維持住2015年在紅襪隊的好表現，那也可能是今年休季後FA的其中一大驚奇。
Twitter
Jeff Passan:
Source: Rich Hill agrees to terms with Oakland. One-year deal for $6 million,
pending physical
運動家簽下了Rich Hill，6M/1YR。莫非豆爺看到了Rich Hill的潛力了嗎?
網址：
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2015/11/athletics-sign-rich-hill.html
備註：
1. 小熊在2002年第四輪選上。
2. 2005~2009年、2015年多為先發出賽，2010~2014多為後援出賽。