MLB and Union allow Astros and Justin Verlander to formalize their signing

The work stoppage of MLB means that right now, no team and no player can negotiate any contract to be signed or changed Major League Baseball, minor league transactions only or changes of personnel in the technical bodies until further notice. However, we have officially seen the first signing since the joint contract expired on December 1, with Justin Verlander and the Houston Astros finally confirming your signature.

According to information from ESPN’s Buster Olney, despite the work stoppage, MLB and the Union have agreed to let the Astros and Verlander formalize the signature that both parties had already agreed to before the lockout was announced, with only the signature missing. and the formalization of the deal between the team and the pitcher.

Verlander’s contract becomes official for the next 2022 and 2023 campaigns with a total salary of 50 million dollars, after having rejected the qualified offer at the end of his previous agreement at the end of the 2021 campaign, after practically not playing in the last two years due to injury that required Tommy John surgery, pulling only three innings since 2020.

Verlander had won his second Cy Young of the 2019 season after losing the World Series that same year to the Washington Nationals, having been with the Astros since 2017 after being traded from the Detroit Tigers.

Gabriel Delgado

I started as a rookie on Al Bat in early 2018 and I’m going into my third season covering Major League Baseball as a web reporter. I am a fan of the San Francisco Giants, a number one defender of Barry Bonds and a critic of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Fernando Tatis Jr., Juan Soto and Ronald Acuña are the future of baseball, Mike Trout is overrated, and the Astros deserved to be taken away from the World Series for cheating. Besides baseball, I also enjoy soccer, football, basketball, and just about any other game that includes a ball or a ball. I am also an amateur musician, penniless gamer and very nerdy. Graduated in journalism from the University of Guadalajara, I graduated in 2017. Born in the shrimp capital of the world, Escuinapa, Sinaloa. I lived in Australia for a while; i survived giant spiders, tasmanian devils and fought a kangaroo and didn’t die trying.

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