The Boston Red Sox are desperately looking for pitching to bolster their pitching staff heading to the 2021 MLB campaign, since last season they had one of the worst pitching in all of the majors. Now, after signing Matt Andriese, they were looking for another reliever to shore up their bullpen, but the Dodgers got in his way.
This is the ex-Yankee Tommy Kahnle, who signed with the current World Series champions, the Los Angeles Dodgers, since they awarded him a contract of 5.25 million dollars for two years, and according to information from Chris Cotillo of MassLive. com, the Red Sox were about to sign him.
It is not known how much contract the Red Sox management offered Kahnle, but Cotillo confirms that the team “very aggressively” pursued the signing of the former Yankees reliever, but ultimately decided on the Dodgers because his offer was most likely better than Boston’s.
Before signing with the reigning MLB champions, Kahnle had pitched for the Colorado Rockies (team that debuted him), Chicago White Sox and New York Yankees. Once recovered, this reliever could act as a coach or even as a closer, in case the Los Angeles team no longer has Kenley Jansen on their squad due to the loss of validity of his contract in 2022.
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