OAKLAND, California – The Law Mike Proud stays with the Oakland Athletics, formalizing a one-year, $ 3.5 million deal on Tuesday.
Fiers, whose six wins represented the team’s best mark in 2020, showed up at the Athletics facility for preseason training in Mesa, Ariz., Tuesday and passed his physical.
The pitcher is a seasoned starter in manager Bob Melvin’s rotation. This group includes young left-handers Jesus Luzardo Y AJ Puk, who missed the shortened 2020 season with a shoulder injury that required surgery.
Fiers, who had his second career no-hitter in 2019, just completed a two-year, $ 14.1 million deal he signed with Oakland in December 2018. He earned $ 3 million in prorated pay in the 60-game shortened season. instead of his normal salary of $ 8.1 million.
The Athletics acquired Fiers in August 2018 and a year later he became the whistleblower in the signal theft scandal involving the Houston Astros, his previous team.
Fiers posted the details on The Athletic website in November 2019. The 35-year-old pitcher spent part of the 2015 season and all of 2016 and 17 with the Astros.
In 2019, the Fiers finished 15-4 with a no-hitter on May 7 against the Cincinnati Reds, starting a streak of 21 starts without losing, going 12-0. But Melvin opted for the left-handed Sean Manaea to open the American League wild card game Oakland lost to the Tampa Bay Rays, a year after the New York Yankees eliminated the Athlerics.
The Athletics, the American League West champions, beat the Chicago White Sox last year, in the wild-card series to a maximum of three games, to snap a nine-game losing streak in life and death matches. That streak, which set a major league record, stretched back to the 1973 World Series.
Oakland had lost six postseason series since sweeping the Minnesota Twins in the 2006 division. It subsequently lost a sweep to the Detroit Tigers in the championship series.
But the season ended at the hands of Houston in an American League division series that was settled in four games.
Fiers pitched the most innings for the Astros in 2017, but fell out of the lineup in the playoffs after finishing with a 5.22 ERA. During that offseason, he signed with Detroit in free agency.
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