The Baltimore Sun: Cashner signs two-year deal with Orioles

[TopFrog]

Baltimore Sun: Cashner signs two-year deal with Orioles

After an entire offseason of being unable to add to a rotation that returned just two starting pitchers from 2017, it took the Orioles just two days into spring trainingworkouts to acquire a much-needed veteran free-agent arm.

The team finalized a two-year deal for a guaranteed $16 million with right-hander Andrew Cashner on Thursday, adding him to a starting rotation that until now had only Dylan Bundy and Kevin Gausman. The deal also includes an option for a third season at $10 million that becomes a vesting option if Cashner reaches 340 innings over the two years. If Cashner compiles 360 innings over the contract, it automatically becomes a player option, according to ESPN.

The deal is incentive-laden. Cashner will make $5 million in base salary this season and $8 million next season, and he also receives a $3 million deferred signing bonus paid in two installments of $1.5 million each in January 2020 and 2021, according to the Associated Press. He can also make up to $5 million in performance bonuses each season based on starts and innings pitched.

Read more at http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/blog/bs-sp-orioles-cashner-0215-story.html

 

[Ghost of Tobys Business College]

Glad he got picked up. Really don't get why the Rangers didn't try to re-sign him... guess he wasn't old and washed up enough yet.

 

[PO Frog]

Baltimore Sun: Cashner signs two-year deal with Orioles

After an entire offseason of being unable to add to a rotation that returned just two starting pitchers from 2017, it took the Orioles just two days into spring trainingworkouts to acquire a much-needed veteran free-agent arm.

The team finalized a two-year deal for a guaranteed $16 million with right-hander Andrew Cashner on Thursday, adding him to a starting rotation that until now had only Dylan Bundy and Kevin Gausman. The deal also includes an option for a third season at $10 million that becomes a vesting option if Cashner reaches 340 innings over the two years. If Cashner compiles 360 innings over the contract, it automatically becomes a player option, according to ESPN.

The deal is incentive-laden. Cashner will make $5 million in base salary this season and $8 million next season, and he also receives a $3 million deferred signing bonus paid in two installments of $1.5 million each in January 2020 and 2021, according to the Associated Press. He can also make up to $5 million in performance bonuses each season based on starts and innings pitched.

Read more at http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/blog/bs-sp-orioles-cashner-0215-story.html

Oh what I would give to be a MLB starter with a career ERA of 3.8 and 20+ games under .500 record...

 

[BleedNPurple]

Rangers are planning on being bottom dwellers so no need to hold Cashner back.

 

[Frogs1983]

Rangers season is going to be a very long one I'm afraid. How John Daniels continues to escape any scrutiny is beyond my understanding. Rangers Owners hijack the City of Arlington for a new ballpark, when the one they already have is barely 25 years old, yet they won't spend any money to be competitive. Whatever happened to all the new $ the Rangers were going to be flush with from their new TV Contract with Fox Sports SW? Signing the like of Bartolo Colon to a minor league contract, while letting Cashner go is all you have to know to realize their leadership is content to be mired near the bottom this season.