The Arizona Diamondbacks and reliever Tyler Clippard have agreed on a two-year deal worth $12.25 million.
The 30-year-old righty had a combined 5-4 record, with a 2.92 ERA, 1.127 WHIP and 19 saves between the Oakland Athletics and New York Mets last season.
Clippard was acquired by the Mets from the Oakland Athletics on July 27 for minor league right-hander Casey Meisner.
Overall, Clippard finished his time with the Mets with a 4-1 record, 3.06 ERA, 1.052 WHIP and 2 saves, but was marred by inconsistency, perhaps because he was asked to change roles and serve as a set-up man for Mets’ closer Jeurys Familia.
He struggled in the postseason, giving up 5 runs in just 6.2 innings of work.
Clippard moving on from the Mets shouldn’t come as any surprise, last month the team signed reliever Antonio Bastardo to a two-year deal.
Perhaps no reliever in baseball has proven to be as durable as Clippard over the past six years. During that time he’s posted a 2.67 ERA with 10.1 K/9 and 3.4 BB/9 in 464 1/3 innings. No reliever is within even 50 innings of Clippard in that time. He’s never been on the disabled list and has averaged 73 appearances and 77 innings per season in that six-year run.
Tyler Clippard joins a fairly stacked Arizona bullpen as the team is clearly looking to make a deep run into the postseason this year.
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