The Red Sox are in agreement with free-agent infielder Jose Peraza on a contra
ct for the 2020 season, Robert Murray reports (via Twitter). The ISE Baseball cl
ient will take home a one-year deal worth close to $3MM, MLB Network’s Jon Heym
an tweets. He can boost his salary via incentives.
Peraza, still just 25, was once considered to be among the game’s premier prosp
ects but struggled considerably in two of his three full Major League seasons be
fore being non-tendered by the Reds earlier this month. That includes a 2019 sea
son in which he managed only a bleak .239/.285/.346 batting line through 376 tri
ps to the plate while seeing time at second base, shortstop, third base, left fi
eld and center field.
While the 2019 and 2017 seasons weren’t kind to Peraza, he posted solid seasons
with the bat in a half-season effort in 2016 (.324/.352/.411) and a full season
in 2018 (.288/.326/.416). He’s an above-average runner although perhaps not to
the extent some may expect from his prospect days; Peraza posted a 28.8 ft/sec
average sprint speed each year from 2016-18, per Statcast, but saw that mark dro
p to 28.0 this past season. And while that might not sound like a notable drop,
it’s enough to drop him from the 92nd percentile to the 75th percentile in the
game. Peraza’s stolen-base efficiency, perhaps correspondingly, took a hit. He
was caught six times in 13 attempts last year after going 70-for-94 in seasons p
rior.
In Peraza, the Red Sox now have a potential replacement for free agent Swiss arm
y knife Brock Holt, who remains unsigned to this point in the offseason. Peraza
can play virtually any position on the diamond outside of pitcher or catcher, a
nd at roughly $3MM and 25 years of age, he’s both a younger and more affordable
alternative — if he can round back into form, that is.
Regardless of the outcome, it’s a fairly sensible low-cost flier for Boston —
one that could pay dividends across multiple years. Peraza has three years, 141
days of Major League service time, meaning if he does indeed bounce back, he’ll
be controllable via arbitration all the way through the 2022 season
备注：
红袜以一年250万的短约签下Peraza
25岁而且有二游都能守的Peraza特性
主委对手要+1了吗？
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