{"id":2270489,"date":"2026-02-06T21:52:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T21:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2270489"},"modified":"2026-02-06T21:52:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T21:52:50","slug":"athletics-to-sign-former-royals-reds-3-60-era-reliever-to-2-million-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/athletics-to-sign-former-royals-reds-3-60-era-reliever-to-2-million-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics to sign former Royals, Reds 3.60 ERA reliever to $2 million deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This offseason has been an exciting one for the Athletics<\/a>. While they’ve not made a blockbuster trade or free agent signing, they have extended both Jacob Wilson and Tyler Soderstrom to long-term deals.<\/p>\n

They’re cheap, young, ascending talent that the A’s will now have on the roster for the next seven years at minimum. Those are nice moves, but their outside additions are also worth noting.<\/p>\n

Their most recent move is a nice bullpen pickup. According to Robert Murray of Fansided.com<\/a>, the Athletics are also in agreement on a $2 million contract with a former Kansas City Royals<\/a> and Cincinnati Reds<\/a> reliever.<\/p>\n

Athletics agree to $2M deal with ex-Royals, Reds reliever<\/h2>\n

“Source: Free-agent reliever Scott Barlow and the A’s are in agreement on a one-year, $2 million contract that includes $1.3 million in performance bonuses,” Murray reports.<\/p>\n

The A’s are bringing in a veteran reliever, 33-year-old Scott Barlow. He’s coming off a decent season for the Reds, in which he had a 4.21 ERA in 75 games, putting up 0.7 bWAR in his eighth year in the league.<\/p>\n

Before joining the Reds, he bounced between the Cleveland Guardians<\/a> and San Diego Padres<\/a>, putting up a 4.25 ERA in 63 games and a 3.07 ERA in 25 games with those two teams, respectively.<\/p>\n

But, before that, he was with the Royals for six seasons and posted a very respectable 3.39 ERA in 277 games during that time frame.<\/p>\n

More<\/strong>:\u00a0Former Yankees, Reds, A’s outfielder agrees to $4M deal with Padres<\/a><\/p>\n

His best seasons came in 2021 and 2022, when he posted a 2.42 ERA and 2.18 ERA in 71 and 69 games, respectively.<\/p>\n

The veteran right-hander hasn’t reached the heights of those seasons in the years since, but he’s still a great depth pitching option for the Athletics to bring in this offseason.<\/p>\n

Murray is reporting this deal is worth $2 million, with $1.3 million in performance bonuses. It’s a cheap and worthwhile deal for the A’s, as Barlow joins a bullpen in need of extra depth for the 2026 MLB season.<\/p>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.sportingnews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This offseason has been an exciting one for the Athletics. While they’ve not made a blockbuster trade or free agent signing, they have extended both Jacob Wilson and Tyler Soderstrom to long-term deals. They’re cheap, young, ascending talent that the A’s will now have on the roster for the next seven years at minimum. Those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2270490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2270489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Athletics-to-sign-former-Royals-Reds-360-ERA-reliever-to.webp.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2270489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2270491,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270489\/revisions\/2270491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2270490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2270489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2270489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2270489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}