4 years agoThe Boston Red Sox have added right-handed starting pitcher Garrett Richards to a one-year, $10 million deal on Saturday. The 32-year-old spent the past two seasons as a member of the Padres staff, but injuries have sidelined the veteran for long stretches of time over the past five seasons. Richards logged 207 1/3 innings for the Angels in 2015, but since that 15-win season, the right-hander has pitched just 198 2/3 innings in total. Richards underwent Tommy John surgery in 2018 and returned to the mound briefly in 2019. This past season, Richards stayed healthy and logged 51 1/3 innings, while making 10 starts for the Padres and logging a 4.03 ERA, two wins and 46 strikeouts. Richards will pitch in a tough division consisting of the high-powered Yankees and the improved Blue Jays lineups regularly, making the veteran starter worth drafting in the late rounds of extremely deep fantasy formats this upcoming spring.--Denis Vondrus - RotoBaller
Source: MLB.com