NEW YORK – The Yankees have quickly found a replacement for their bullpen to agree to a $ 2.5 million one-year deal with right-wing Darren O’Day, a person familiar with the negotiations for the Associated Press said Wednesday.
The agreement includes options for players and clubs for 2022, said the person who spoke on condition of anonymity, as the agreement is subject to a successful physique.
O’Day takes the vacancy when the Yankees traded Adam Ottavino to the right in Boston on Monday, a move that reduced New York’s $ 7.15 million salary. O’Day believes he will join left-wing Zack Britton and right-wing Chad Green as the main arrangements for Aroldis Chapman.
O’Day, 38, was 4-0 with an ERA 1.10 in 16 1/3 innings in 19 games with Atlanta last year, eliminating 22 and going five, allowing eight hits. While his fast ball averaged just 86 mph, the low angle of his arm creates a deception. Hitters right hit just .143 (7-for-49) with a home run by Boston’s Xander Bogaerts, the first hitter in the lineup in his final appearance of the season. Left-handed hitters won 10-1.
He became a free agent when Atlanta turned down a $ 3.25 million option, resulting in a $ 250,000 exit purchase.
O’Day is a 13-year MLB veteran who goes 40-19 with an ERA of 2.51 and 600 shots and 158 walks in 576 innings 2/3 for the Los Angeles Angels (2008), New York Mets (2009 ), Texas Rangers (2009) -11), Baltimore Orioles (2012-18) and Atlanta Braves (2019-20).
He was an All-Star in 2015, when he had 1.52 ERAs and six saves while hitting 82 in 65 1/3 innings, but missed the last two months of the 2018 season with a left hamstring strain and the first five months of 2019 with a sustained stem of the right forearm during spring training.
Last year, he earned $ 833,333 in proportion to a $ 2.25 million salary, down from his $ 31 million four-year contract with Baltimore before the 2016 season.
His wife, Elizabeth Prann, is a correspondent for HLN and CNN, formerly Fox News.