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Message: [QUOTE="donniesyracuse, post: 5002140, member: 101"] [HEADING=2][URL='https://blogs.fangraphs.com/red-sox-hope-brayan-bello-deal-is-the-start-of-something-bigger/']Red Sox Hope Brayan Bello Deal Is the Start of Something Bigger[/URL][/HEADING] [I]While it’s a major blow that [URL='https://www.fangraphs.com/players/lucas-giolito/15474/stats']Lucas Giolito[/URL] is likely to be out for at least the entire 2024 season due to a [URL='https://blogs.fangraphs.com/lucas-giolitos-injury-puts-the-red-sox-in-a-bind/']double whammy of elbow injuries[/URL], the Red Sox are making efforts to stabilize their already-thin rotation for the longer term. On Thursday, righty [URL='https://www.fangraphs.com/players/brayan-bello/23920/stats']Brayan Bello[/URL]agreed to a [URL='https://twitter.com/kileymcd/status/1765793466980667512?s=46&t=g_PT0BXbhsSJV9nKqo4_jA']six-year, $55 million extension[/URL]with a $21 million club option for his seventh season. In a well-timed touch, the formal announcement of the deal is expected on Saturday before the Red Sox play the first of two exhibition games against the Rays in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where Bello will be surrounded by family and friends. The guaranteed portion of Bello’s contract covers the 2024–29 seasons, the last of which would have been his first year of free agent eligibility. The total value of the deal is the second-largest ever for a pre-arbitration pitcher, just surpassing [URL='https://www.fangraphs.com/players/hunter-greene/22182/stats']Hunter Greene[/URL]’s six-year, $53 million extension, which he signed last April with comparable service time and which also includes a club option. [URL='https://www.fangraphs.com/players/spencer-strider/27498/stats']Spencer Strider[/URL]’s similarly structured deal, which came in at $75 million for six years plus a club option, is the record. ([URL='https://twitter.com/kileymcd/status/1765800791120486872']Hat tips[/URL] to ESPN’s McDaniel and the Boston Globe’s Alex Speier for those comps)…[/I] [/QUOTE]

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