The St. Louis Cardinals just made their fans really happy.
In a span of just a few days, they signed three free-agent pitchers: Lance Lynn, Kyle Gibson, and Sonny Gray.
The first two are more back-of-the-rotation types, experienced arms with limited ceiling at this point of their careers, but with the ability to eat innings.
Gray, however, is a bona fide ace even at 34 years old.
The right-hander posted a 2.79 ERA in 184 innings with the Minnesota Twins this past campaign, and was one of the finalists for the Cy Young award in the American League.
Gerrit Cole of the New York Yankees eventually won, but Gray earned himself a nice three-year, $75 million deal with the Cardinals.
Cardinals executive John Mozeliak had vowed to reinforce the pitching staff and delivered.
“St. Louis Cardinals president John Mozeliak promised to acquire 3 starters this winter and now has done it by signing Sonny Gray to a 3-year, $75 million contract after previously signing Lance Lynn and Kyle Gibson. @Ken_Rosenthal and @JonHeyman on it,” MLB insider Bob Nightengale tweeted.
St. Louis Cardinals president John Mozeliak promised to acquire 3 starters this winter and now has done it by signing Sonny Gray to a 3-year, $75 million contract after previously signing Lance Lynn and Kyle Gibson. @Ken_Rosenthal and @JonHeyman on it.
— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) November 27, 2023
You can go ahead and talk about the rotation’s average age – one of the oldest in baseball considering that Steven Matz and Miles Mikolas are also members of it – but Gray allows the unit to increase its floor and ceiling, and there could be more help on the way via the farm system.
For St. Louis, it was important to complement their good offense – Nolan Arenado, Paul Goldschmidt, Brendan Donovan, Jordan Walker, Willson Contreras, Tommy Edman, Nolan Gorman, and Lars Nootbar are a pretty solid core – with an above-average pitching staff.
Now, they have one.
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