Tommy Pham stands as one of many higher outfielders nonetheless on the open market. With Spring Coaching a pair weeks away, the 10-year MLB veteran is fielding curiosity from a handful of groups.
Juan Toribio of MLB.com tweets that eight-plus golf equipment stay in touch with Pham’s camp. Jon Heyman of the New York Submit signifies the Purple Sox have some extent of curiosity. Boston chief baseball officer Craig Breslow stated final month the crew was open to including a right-handed hitting outfielder, making {that a} pure match.
Pham is headed into his age-36 marketing campaign. He’s coming off a productive 12 months cut up between the Mets and eventual NL champion Diamondbacks. Pham hit 16 homers with a mixed .256/.328/.446 batting line by way of 481 plate appearances within the common season. He stole 22 bases in 25 makes an attempt with barely higher than common stroll and strikeout charges (9.8% and 22%, respectively). He made exhausting contact — an exit velocity of 95 MPH or higher — on practically half his batted balls.
As Arizona made their shocking run to the Fall Traditional, Pham chipped in a .279/.297/.475 line with a trio of homers throughout 16 postseason video games. It was a strong end to his most efficient season since 2019. He paired that well-rounded exhibiting on the plate with league common defensive marks in a bit greater than 500 innings of left area work.
That efficiency ought to at the very least safe Pham one other first rate wage on a one-year contract, though it won’t be sufficient for a multi-year deal at his age. He has signed one-year offers in every of the final two offseasons. He inked a $7.5MM assure with the Reds going into 2022 and a $6MM contract with the Mets final winter. His camp ought to look to beat these numbers off a superior platform exhibiting than he had in both of the earlier two free agent journeys.
Pham completed the ’22 marketing campaign in Boston, as Cincinnati dealt him to the Purple Sox on the deadline. Whereas the Sox have since modified entrance workplace leaders, supervisor Alex Cora and far of the roster is conversant in Pham from that earlier stint. Boston has swapped in Tyler O’Neill for Alex Verdugo this offseason. O’Neill joins Masataka Yoshida, Jarren Duran, Rob Refsnyder and younger gamers Wilyer Abreu and Ceddanne Rafaela within the outfield combine.
