Red Sox has agreed to expand with left-handed Aroldis Chapman This will put the 2026 season star rescuer in town, according to Beisbolfr’s Francys Romero. Romero added that the deal includes options for the 2027 season, with Masslive Adds’ Chris Cotillo being attribution/choice each other. Cotillo goes on to report that Chapman’s trade is guaranteed 13.3mm, and if the Wasserman client throws enough innings to attribute his 2027 choice, he will earn 26mm in two seasons.
Players are not often entering his 38-year-old season, but Chapman’s salary will jump to about 3.5mm in 2026, a testament to the veteran’s first sensational season in Boston. The eight-time All-Star and two World Series champions signed for one year, with a margin of 10.75mm, has gone backwards, arguably the best season of his entire career and undoubtedly his most impressive performance in nearly a decade.
Chapman pitched on an otherworldly 1.04 ERA in 57 games this year while beating 38.7% of his opponents. That was the lowest time among qualified rescuers, only Mason Miller This year beat the batsman with a higher cut. Chapman’s 2.02 Siera, 1.83 FIP and 2.2 FWAR are all the best totals for MLB. If the newly unresolved Rescue Pitcher of the Year award wins the game in the 2025 season, Chapman will be the dunk that won the rim in the American League. For now, he will have to settle down to end the big game, as it is highly likely that Boston Club will enter the playoffs.
Early in Chapman’s career, it was not uncommon for his name to be the best relief arm in baseball at any given moment. The lefty made his major league debut in 2010, and in his first seven seasons in the Grand Slam, he beat 42.6% of his opponents to face a 2.08 ERA with a 1.88 FIP. These included four consecutive All-Star games with Cincinnati since 2012-15 and dominance in the 2016 season, he scored 1.55 ERA games in the Yankees and Cubs before throwing 15 2/3 innings for Chicago in the playoffs, entering his first World Series title of his career.
However, after returning to the Yankees in 2016, Chapman, then 29, didn’t look that dominant. As he entered his thirties, his numbers were still strong overall, but not as high as he had enjoyed in the first few seasons of his career. In eight seasons from 2017 to 2024, Chapman put in 3.17 ERA with a 2.94 FIP, hitting 37.7% of his opponents and seeing his walking rate rise from 11.6% to 13.6%. After spending part of seven years with the Yankees, Chapman bounced between the Rangers, Royals and the Pirates before returning to Al East this year to become a member of the Red Sox. Now, Chapman’s release results are in line with those he proposed during the peak period, his bounce between teams and the uncertainty he faces every offseason is over.
It’s impressive that as Chapman’s 2025 campaign, the Red Sox believes it’s unreasonable for them to get from their future lefties. Even the most elite reliefist who is still at the top has had many years of volatility, which is harder for a midfielder 3.68 ERA game in the last three seasons of the year and now he is looking forward to his 38 season. Chapman’s age is certainly the reason why his expansion is limited to a guaranteed season. After all, even Kirby YatesThe Dodgers’ 2024 season dominant in the Rangers’ dominant 2024, and his guarantees are not available. David Robertson It would have to wait until mid-season to get what he thought was the right value for the service.
The deal between Yates and Los Angeles is particularly noteworthy for Chapman’s deal with the Red Sox, as Chapman’s $13.3mm guaranteed clock is more than a guaranteed salary from Los Angeles this year, which is just $300,000 this year. While the deal is priced at 2.7mm of 16mm, guaranteeing Robertson’s offer last month, it must be noted that the deal between Robertson and Philadelphia carries a famous asterisk: Robertson can only sign in late July until the end of the season until the signing is paid to him, thus exceeding 6mm, which he actually gets in his signing, and is actually paid by 6mm.
All of this is to say that Chapman’s deal is more or less consistent with expectations for a more recent aging season. Chapman must meet a specific inning threshold to meet his 2027 option, and that threshold will ultimately determine the true reality of the option. For example, Chapman’s threshold threshold is easily reaching the benchmark for every season of his career, except for 202222222. The 60-inning threshold will be a higher order, just like Chapman’s 52-inning work so far, he will be in his second season in the season, which is his real chance in the second season, the first season in 2024, the first season in the season, the first season in 2024, the first season in 2024, the first season in the season, the first season in the season, the first season in the season, and since it is in the 2022 season, it is the first season in the season. 2015.
Whether Chapman sticks to 2027 or not, his persistence in the late 2026 mix should be huge for the Red Sox. Chapman can continue to be a veteran in the bullpen, which is still very young next year, and the weapons are like Garrett Whitlock and Justin Slaten Paired with Chapman with a post-mix. Another potential X factor is Jordan Hickshe has been dominant at times for years, but has struggled this year after the San Francisco rotation this season. Maybe the Red Sox hopes he will get a closer role in 2026, when they get him as part of their reward Rafael Devers Back in June, but Hicks has been working hard since joining the Red Sox, it seems more likely that he will be compared to his roster next spring than in a late-stage role. Bringing Chapman back should help reduce the club’s reliance on Hicks to rebound and if he does turn everything around, he’ll form a deadly defender duo with veteran lefties.
