(Saint-Louis) Left-handed reliever TJ McFarland has officially become Major League’s first offseason free agent to sign a new contract.
McFarland put his signature at the bottom of a one-season contract with the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday.
McFarland stabilized the Cardinals reliever box in the stretch of the season, after signing a US $ 1 million free agent contract on 1er July.
The 32-year-old left-hander was 4-1 with an earned run average of 2.56 in 38 innings and two-thirds of work spanning 38 games.
The nine-year Major Baseball veteran started the campaign at the AAA level, but the Washington Nationals agreed to release him on June 29.
The Cardinals relievers’ 3.47 earned-run average in the second half of the season was the eighth-best for the Majors. Now that McFarland is back, free agent Andrew Miller is the last missing piece of this group that excelled in 2021.