DENVER \u2014 Right-hander Michael Lorenzen and the Colorado Rockies finalized their one-year, $8 million contract.<\/p>\n
Lorenzen gets a $7.75 million million salary this year, and the deal includes a $9 million club option for 2027 with a $250,000 buyout plus award bonuses.<\/p>\n
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Right-hander Bradley Blalock was designated for assignment to open a roster spot.<\/p>\n
Lorenzen, 34, was 7-11 with a 4.64 ERA in 26 starts and one relief appearance last year for Kansas City, which guaranteed him $7 million in a one-year deal. He earned an additional $1 million in performance bonuses for innings and games pitched.<\/p>\n
Lorenzen struck out a career-high 127 in 141 2\/3 innings, but also tied for the major league lead with 12 wild pitches.<\/p>\n
Colorado has lost 101 or more games in each of the past three years, including a major league-high 119 in 2025. It\u2019s last winning record was 91-72 in 2018.<\/p>\n
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Paul DePodesta was hired as Colorado\u2019s president of baseball operations in November, and Warren Schaeffer was promoted to full-time manager after finishing last season as the interim skipper.<\/p>\n
The current nucleus for the rebuilding Rockies includes All-Star catcher Hunter Goodman and shortstop Ezequiel Tovar. The team also selected shortstop Ethan Holliday with the No. 4 pick in last year\u2019s amateur draft.<\/p>\n
Lorenzen broke into the majors with Cincinnati in 2015. He is 54-55 with a 4.08 ERA in 395 career appearances, also pitching for Texas, Detroit, Philadelphia and the Los Angeles Angels.<\/p>\n
Lorenzen was traded from Detroit to Philadelphia on Aug. 1, 2023. He threw a no-hitter in his home debut with the Phillies, striking out five and issuing four walks in a 7-0 victory over Washington.<\/p>\n
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He would get $100,000 each for winning an MVP award or Cy Young Award and $50,000 for second through fifth in the voting. Lorenzen also would earn $100,000 apiece for BBWAA Reliever of the Year and Rivera\/Hoffman Reliever of the Year, and $50,000 for second through fifth in the BBWAA voting and second or third in the Rivera\/Hoffman.<\/p>\n
He would earn $100,000 for World Series MVP, $75,000 for League Championship Series MVP, $100,000 for Comeback Player of the Year and $25,000 each for All-Star selection and winning a Gold Glove.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER \u2014 Right-hander Michael Lorenzen and the Colorado Rockies finalized their one-year, $8 million contract. Lorenzen gets a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2405],"tags":[5,739,535,167,52,4316,147,869,2092,2123,56,371,4,55769,144,40,168,1567],"class_list":["post-522153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-colorado-rockies","tag-baseball","tag-bradley-blalock","tag-cincinnati","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-coloradorockies","tag-detroit","tag-ezequiel-tovar","tag-hunter-goodman","tag-kansas-city","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-michael-lorenzen","tag-mlb","tag-performance-bonuses","tag-philadelphia","tag-phillies","tag-rockies","tag-texas"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}