The Reds introduced that right-hander Emilio Pagan has exercised his $8MM participant choice for the 2025 season. Pagan inked a two-year, $16MM contract with Cincinnati final winter that included an opt-out clause after the primary season, and the reliever has chosen to forego a $250K buyout and a return journey to free company.
There wasn’t a lot suspense in Pagan’s determination, as he missed simply in need of three months of the 2024 season on account of a lat pressure. The harm restricted to Pagan to 38 innings in as many appearances, marking the bottom profession complete in both class for Pagan throughout any of his seven regulation-length MLB seasons (Pagan tossed 22 innings in 22 video games through the pandemic-shortened 2020 marketing campaign).
Pagan’s first season in Cincinnati noticed him put up a 4.50 ERA, however a way more spectacular 3.19 SIERA. An inflated .351 BABIP undermined some solidly above-average strikeout (28.1%) and stroll (seven p.c) charges, although Pagan did permit a variety of exhausting contact. Even with this favorable set of superior metrics, it makes a variety of sense that the 33-year-old Pagan would like to lock in $7.75MM of additional assured wage reasonably than head again out into the free agent market as soon as extra.
Extra to come back….