PHILADELPHIA \u2014 Right-hander Brad Keller and the Philadelphia Phillies finalized their $22 million, two-year contract on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Keller gets a $4 million signing bonus, half payable upon the contract’s approval by Major League Baseball and half in October. He receives salaries of $7 million next year and $11 million in 2027.<\/p>\n
Keller was 4-2 with a career-low 2.07 ERA in 68 appearances for the Chicago Cubs this season. He struck out 75 in 69 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
The 30-year-old worked out of the bullpen this year, but he also has 117 career starts. Ranger Su\u00e1rez, a key member of Philadelphia\u2019s rotation this season, is a free agent.<\/p>\n
Keller\u2019s guarantee matches the $22 million, two-year deal Luke Weaver struck Wednesday with the New York Mets, which is pending a successful physical.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia won the NL East this year for the second straight season. It was eliminated by the Los Angeles Dodgers in a four-game Division Series.<\/p>\n
The Phillies answered one major offseason question when they re-signed Kyle Schwarber to a $150 million, five-year contract. Adolis Garc\u00eda is expected to play right field for the team after finalizing a $10 million, one-year contract on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Longtime Phillies catcher J.T. Realmuto remains a free agent, along with Su\u00e1rez and outfielder Harrison Bader.<\/p>\n
Keller was an eighth-round pick by Arizona in the 2013 amateur draft. He made his major league debut with Kansas City in 2018, going 9-6 with a 3.08 ERA in 20 starts and 21 relief appearances.<\/p>\n
Keller is 42-59 with a 4.14 ERA and five saves in 234 career games, also playing for the Boston Red Sox and Chicago White Sox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA \u2014 Right-hander Brad Keller and the Philadelphia Phillies finalized their $22 million, two-year contract on Thursday. Keller…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[29828,1423,69,71,70,1425,5342],"class_list":["post-64765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-mlb","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-wires-bot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}