Los Dodgers han firmado un contrato de $200 millones para el relevista de los Medias Rojas, por año.
Roman, de treinta años, no ha jugado en ligas importantes desde la temporada 2021, pero se unió a los Red Sox con 275 1/3 frames de experiencia en la MLB. He tuvo un buen debut con los Rojos en 2017, haciendo 16 starts y pitchando a un respetable 4.45 ERA en 87 innings. The 6’5′′, 250-pound righty fanned 19% of his opponents against a slightly higher 9.4% walk rate and also kept the ball on the ground at a 50.4% clip. Although it wasn’t a dominant debut, Romano looked like a possible back-end starter whose ground-ball tendencies would be beneficial in one of the game’s most homer-friendly stadiums.
Sin embargo, su campaña de segundo año en 2018 no fue tan exitosa como se esperaba. En 25 starts and 14 relief appearances, the big righty soaked up 145 2/3 innings but stumbled to a 5.31 earned run average. His walk rate improved to 8.2%, but that was accompanied by a decline in strikeout rate (16.3%), ground ball rate (45.5%) and sinker velocity (95.7 mph in 2017 and 94.3 mph in 2018). Roman moved to the ‘pen’ in 2019 but had even more trouble. Despite not appearing on the injured list during the shortened 2020 season, he only threw 1 1/3 innings, and the Reds cut him loose after 14 appearances in ’21. He jugó brevemente con los Yankees y los Brewers durante esa temporada, pero no se mantuvo en ninguna de las posiciones para todos.
