{"id":90817,"date":"2024-12-09T13:38:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T18:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=90817"},"modified":"2024-12-09T13:39:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T18:39:29","slug":"phillies-jordan-romano-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/12\/09\/phillies-jordan-romano-one-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Romano Agrees to One-Year Deal with Phillies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Phillies have signed right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/romanjo03.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-12-09_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jordan Romano<\/a> to a one-year, $7.75 million deal, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/1866187304886231441\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ESPN&#8217;s Jeff Passan<\/a>. Romano joins the Phillies after spending his entire six-year career with the Toronto Blue Jays, where he compiled a 2.90 ERA and 105 saves. Toronto non-tendered the beloved 31-year-old right-hander from Markham, Ontario in November, making him a free agent for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Coming off of back-to-back All-Star Game selections, Romano had a rough 2024. He opened the season on the injured list with elbow inflammation, only to be sidelined with the same injury again a month later. Romano tossed 13 2\/3 innings over 15 appearances with a 6.59 ERA before undergoing <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/17\/blue-jays-reliever-yimi-garcia-il\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">season-ending arthroscopic elbow surgery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Phillies Sign Jordan Romano<\/h2>\n<p>Romano, who turns 32 in April, had been an <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/12\/01\/blue-jays-jordan-romano-free-agency\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">elite back-end weapon<\/a> for the Blue Jays since taking over the closing role in 2021. He recorded 103 saves over the past four seasons, including consecutive 36-save performances in 2022 and 2023. Before his injury-riddled 2024, he topped 55 innings and turned in a sub-3.00 ERA in three straight seasons. Over that span, Romano posted a 2.37 ERA through 186 innings and struck out over 30% of opposing hitters.<\/p>\n<p>Despite battling an elbow injury, Romano led the majors with a 7.5-foot extension and a fastball velocity in the top 15 <a href=\"https:\/\/baseballsavant.mlb.com\/savant-player\/jordan-romano-605447?stats=statcast-r-pitching-mlb\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to Statcast<\/a>. He solidified his status as the top closer in 2022, setting a Blue Jays franchise record with 26 consecutive saves. That same year Romano finished third in the American League with 36 saves and made his first All-Star Game appearance. His 105 career saves are the third-most in Blue Jays history and rank 14th among active major league closers. Toronto <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/29\/blue-jays-pitcher-experiences-more-setbacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">played it safe<\/a> with Romano following his elbow arthroscopy, rather than rushing him back to a team trailing 9 1\/2 games in the Wild Card. But the veteran flame thrower should be good to go when pitchers and catchers report in February.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Geoff Burke-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Phillies have signed right-hander Jordan Romano to a one-year, $7.75 million deal, reports ESPN&#8217;s Jeff Passan. Romano joins the Phillies after spending his entire six-year career with the Toronto Blue Jays, where he compiled a 2.90 ERA and 105 saves. Toronto non-tendered the beloved 31-year-old right-hander from Markham, Ontario in November, making him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4975,"featured_media":91621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[23,1071],"tags":[3359],"class_list":["post-90817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phillies","category-mlb","tag-jordan-romano"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90817","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\/4975"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91622,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90817\/revisions\/91622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}