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Tuesday, December 27, 2022
Left-hander Rich Hill and the Pittsburgh Pirates are in agreement on a one-year, $8 million contract, sources familiar with the deal told ESPN, uniting Hill with his 12th big league team and setting him up to be the oldest player in Major League Baseball this season.
Hill, who turns 43 in March, carved out a role in recent years as a five-inning specialist. With the Boston Red Sox last season, he started 26 games and threw 124⅓ innings, posting a 4.27 ERA and putting up typically strong strikeout-to-walk numbers.
They signed the only player that was alive for the last time they won a pennant!
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1. John Reynard Posted: December 27, 2022 at 07:11 PM (#6110966)Do the Pirates need SP filler enough to take an $8M flier on Hill? I guess so.
I think the Pirates look at it as buying a lottery ticket. If Ben doesn't spend the 8 million now he doesn't get to spend 8 million extra next year. So use it and perhaps they catch lightning in a bottle or they can flip him for some prospects
has pitched in 18 consecutive MLB seasons. but IP totals include 4, 5, 8, 20, 24, 29, 39, and 58.
he qualified for the ERA title only in 2007 - along with Cub teammates Carlos Zambrano, Ted Lilly, and Jason Marquis.
Backstops were Michael Barrett, Jason Kendall, Koyie Hill, Geovany Soto, and Henry Blanco - all of whom started between 13 and 52 games (with someone named Rob Bowen getting the other 9).
perhaps Hill learned something in his rookie season from teammate Greg Maddux.
the gold standard, in some ways, for the "modern starting pitcher."
Wow, I could have sworn he was out of baseball for a couple of seasons. I never would have guessed that. Obviously there are 3 years under 10 IP, but that still means he was on a roster and pitched. I just wouldn't have thought it.
If Correa deal gets blown up, I'd definitely love having Greinke.
He's older than Prior, even though his breakout season came three years after Prior's. Just another thing making his one of the least likely MLB careers to reach nineteen seasons.
1.1 IP at Rookie
2 IP at A
4 IP at A+
1 IP at AA
8 IP at AAA
19.2 IP at MLB
Across all 6 (!) levels, he had a 2.00 ERA. It's a shame he didn't get a stint in A- ball.
Shame he didn’t get at least a cup of coffee that year…
remember when the ballplayers all looked older than our dads??? and then when we were all about the same age and thought - gee, if i was a leeeetle taller and more muscular that could be me out there? (some of us also had more, um, x-rated thought, but we won't go there) and now we're wondering how old do they have to be for us to not feel like we're a perv if we look at them and think they're HOTTTTTTTTTTTT
but i know the worst is coming and that is when we look at them and think, oh dammm, im old enough to be their PARENT
My dad is old enough to be the GREAT-grandfather of some of today's young stars, which is . . . something.
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