Dallas Keuchel Contract Details With White Sox Revealed
Dallas Keuchel is getting paid. The newest White Sox starter's contract details have just come out, and the numbers are staggering.
Three years, $55.5 million is the exact total, including a fourth-year option that could increase that total to $74 million if Keuchel/the team choose to accept it.
The Keuchel deal with the White Sox, as @JonHeyman said, is for three years and $55.5 million. It includes a vesting fourth-year option that can take it to $74 million.
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) December 22, 2019
Keuchel celebrates his 32nd birthday along with the New Year in 2020, and is hoping to rejuvenate the All-Star level of pitching we saw from him during his days in Houston. His only year in Atlanta was a modest one by Keuchel's standards. The left-hander made over $13 million in 2018, but had just an 8-8 record to show for it.
He had his lowest innings pitched total since his rookie season, striking out just 91 batters while sporting a 3.75 ERA, and allowing 9.2 hits per-nine-innings, while dealing with a depreciating velocity level. The signing for the White Sox adds to a very active summer for the ballclub, after they signed Yasmani Grandal and Jose Abreu to multi-year deals, and added fellow lefty Gio Gonzalez on a one-year, $5 million agreement.
Last year Dallas Keuchel pitches in 112.2 innings for the Braves, had a 0.8 fWAR and was worth $6.4M according to Fangraphs
— Jared Tims (@Jared_Tims) December 22, 2019
Steamer projection
11-11
188 IP
2.6 fWAR
4.20 ERA
4.30 FIP
$18.5 AAV
Andrew Heaney Steamer projection
11-9
168 IP
2.8 fWAR
3.99 ERA
4.11 FIP
$5M proj Arb
Keuchel won the MLB's Cy Young award in 2015.