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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.
运动家签下了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.
这边描述35岁Hill过去的纪录，近年多为后援出赛，曾在2007年的小熊队投好投满先发
一整季，成绩如下：
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.
今年夏天期间被国民释出后，他去了红袜，包含今年已经有四个球季在这，而在3A的好表
现让他升上了大联盟。
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.
这边描述今年在大联盟的好表现，2015年的尾声Rich Hill在红袜队大杀四方，
主投四场先发有一场完投胜，成绩如下：
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薪资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).
未来运动家队的轮值状况：
1. 比较稳定的是：Sonny Gray(1st, Ace)、Jesse Chavez。
2. 其他年轻的先发有：Jesse Hahn、Chris Bassitt、Kendall Graveman、Sean Nolin、
Aaron Brooks。
3. Jarrod Parker和A.J. Griffin则因为手臂手术miss了过去两个球季，希望能回的来。
4. Drew Pomeranz也是其中一个选择，今年投过九场先发，但在后援方面也表现不错。
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.
对运动家来说，给Rich Hill一年6M的薪水是很有风险的，原因不出过去的纪录和丰富的
伤病史，但如果Rich Hill能健康出赛的话，这样投资可以增加投手深度。并且，如果他能
维持住2015年在红袜队的好表现，那也可能是今年休季后FA的其中一大惊奇。
Twitter
Jeff Passan:
Source: Rich Hill agrees to terms with Oakland. One-year deal for $6 million,
pending physical
运动家签下了Rich Hill，6M/1YR。莫非豆爷看到了Rich Hill的潜力了吗?
网址：
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2015/11/athletics-sign-rich-hill.html
备注：
1. 小熊在2002年第四轮选上。
2. 2005~2009年、2015年多为先发出赛，2010~2014多为后援出赛。