According to Michael Head of Yahoo! Sports on Monday, the Toronto Blue Jays have signed starting pitcher Chris Bassitt to a three-year deal worth $63 million. The Blue Jays become the fourth Major League Baseball team Bassitt has played for as he has also pitched for the Chicago White Sox, Oakland Athletics, and New York Mets.
In 2022, Bassitt had a record of 15 wins and nine losses in 30 games with an earned run average of 3.42. In 181 2/3 innings pitched, he gave up 159 hits, 69 earned runs, 19 home runs, and 49 walks, to go along with 167 strikeouts, and a WHIP (walks and hits per innings pitched) of 1.15. This past season, Bassitt had career highs in wins and strikeouts.
Bassitt was an American League All-Star with the Oakland Athletics in 2021. That year he had an outstanding winning percentage of .750, as he posted a win-loss record of 12 wins and four losses with an earned run average of 3.15.
Bassitt now joins a Blue Jays pitching rotation that includes Kevin Gausman, Alex Manoah, Jose Berrios, and Hyun-Jin Ryu. There are a lot of questions surrounding Ryu at this time, as he will be coming off Tommy John Surgery, and the Blue Jays fans will hope he returns to the effectiveness he had with the Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers prior to the surgery.
