MIAMI – The Miami Marlins acquired reliever Matt Barnes in a trade with the Boston Red Sox on Monday.
Miami despatched remaining-hander Richard Bleier to Boston for Barnes, and the Crimson Sox will pay back the Marlins $5,625,000 to include a lot more than fifty percent the $10.25 million Barnes is certain. The 32-year-aged Barnes was specified for assignment when the Crimson Sox signed outfielder Adam Duvall past 7 days.
Barnes assisted Boston earn the 2018 Environment Sequence, going 6-4 with a 3.65 Period and 96 strikeouts in 62 online games masking 61 2/3 innings as a really hard-throwing setup person that year.
He experienced 24 saves in 2021, producing the AL All-Star squad in advance of struggling in the next 50 percent and dropping the nearer job. He fell to -4 with a 4.31 Era and eight saves in 44 appearances last yr, hanging out 34 and walking 21 in 39 2/3 innings.
Bleier, 35, went 2-2 with a 3.55 Era in 2022. He designed 1 commence and experienced a save.
Bleier, a Miami Seaside indigenous, created his large league debut with the New York Yankees in 2016. He is 14-6 with a 3.06 Era in 308 job video games, also pitching for Baltimore.
Barnes, born and raised in close by Connecticut, was drafted 19th in general by Boston in 2011 out of UConn. A transformed starter, he is 32-30 with a 4.07 Era and 47 will save in 9 big league seasons.
Boston will pay out Miami $937,500 on the 15th of every single month from April via September.
Barnes has a $7.5 million salary this time as aspect of an $18.75 million, two-yr agreement. The arrangement incorporates a $9 million team selection for 2024 with a $2.75 million buyout – the alternative rate went up by $1 million and the buyout by $500,000 because of the trade.
Bleier is owed $3.75 million, together with a $3.5 million income this 12 months as part of a deal that consists of a $3.75 million group alternative for 2024 with a $250,000 buyout.
To make home for Bleier on Boston’s 40-person roster, suitable-hander Franklin German was selected for assignment.
