{"id":17145,"date":"2019-02-14T11:30:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T16:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/\/?p=17145"},"modified":"2019-02-14T12:07:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T17:07:33","slug":"marlins-sign-veteran-righty-sergio-romo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2019\/02\/14\/marlins-sign-veteran-righty-sergio-romo\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins Sign Veteran Righty Sergio Romo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, the Miami Marlins announced that they\u2019ve agreed to a one year day with veteran right-hander Sergio Romo. As part of the deal,\u00a0Romo will receive a guaranteed $2.5MM, and can earn additional incentive money on top of that.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Source: Veteran reliever Sergio Romo has agreed to a one-year MLB deal with the Marlins for $2.5 million plus incentives. The deal is pending a physical.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jesse Sanchez (@JesseSanchezMLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JesseSanchezMLB\/status\/1095454792124588033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 12, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>A Look at Romo&#8217;s 2018 Season<\/h3>\n<p>Last season at times, Romo was used as an opener for the Tampa Bay Rays. However, most of his work came in the late innings and he posted some solid numbers.\u00a0Over 73 games, Romo pitched 67 innings while posting a 4.14 ERA, 1.26 WHIP, 75 strikeouts, and 25 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Last season Romo played victim to the home run ball a ton, allowing 1.5 HR\/9. This is likely because\u00a0Romo is more of a fly ball pitcher, though this game should profile well in the rather large SunTrust Park.<\/p>\n<h3>What He Brings to the Marlins<\/h3>\n<p>The rebuilding Marlins do not figure to be particularly good next season. They will likely be the basement dwellers in what should be a highly competitive National League East. Their team is relatively young, and Romo much like the recently signed Curtis Granderson, will be a nice veteran presence.<\/p>\n<p>Romo figures to be one of the favorites to take over the closers role in Miami. Drew Stickenrider held that position last season and pitched well, and is young and inexperienced. But like I said before, thus is the theme of the Marlins bullpen and team, and Romo should add a nice veteran presence to this clubhouse.<\/p>\n<h3>In Other News<\/h3>\n<p>In other Marlins news, Miami is \u201cexpected\u201d to hire long-time MLB catcher Jorge Posada as a special adviser to the club\u2019s baseball operations department. This should not come as a shock, as Posada obviously has ties with Marlins CEO Derek Jeter.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"bZqUb-e9QChnf8iWVcDw4Q\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1043188102\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'bZqUb-e9QChnf8iWVcDw4Q',sig:'hYp_eZVtoCiz8CIlZ6OyRHzRLLOA5lzufSMm5c5OBp4=',w:'594px',h:'393px',items:'1043188102',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, the Miami Marlins announced that they\u2019ve agreed to a one year day with veteran right-hander Sergio Romo. As part of the deal,\u00a0Romo will receive a guaranteed $2.5MM, and can earn additional incentive money on top of that. Source: Veteran reliever Sergio Romo has agreed to a one-year MLB deal with the Marlins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2821,"featured_media":17147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1071,20],"tags":[71,1895],"class_list":["post-17145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","category-marlins","tag-miami-marlins","tag-sergio-romo"],"modified_by":"John Flanigan","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2821"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}