Second baseman Jonathan Schoop re-signed Detroit Tigers on 1-yr, $4.5M deal
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| I'm grateful for the possibility to rejoin the Tigers for the 2021 season |
The second baseman Jonathan Schoop has re-signed with the Detroit Tigers on a one-12 months deal, the team introduced Friday.
Sources instructed ESPN's Jeff Passan that the deal is worth $4.five million.
Schoop paid dividends for the Tigers after signing a one-yr deal closing off-season, offering strong protection up the center in 2020 whilst hitting .278 with 23 RBIs and 8 home runs, which ranked 2nd on the team.
"I'm grateful for the possibility to rejoin the Tigers for the 2021 season," Schoop stated in a statement. "We have a sincerely right group here, we began out to set up some thing unique remaining 12 months and are going to take it to the subsequent level in 2021."
In 2019, Schoop, 29, batted .256 with 23 homers, fifty nine RBIs and a .777 OPS in 121 matches in the course of his simplest season with the Minnesota Twins. It become his fourth consecutive season with extra than 20 home runs.
His nice season got here with the Baltimore Orioles in 2017, while he turned into a first-time All-Star and hit .293 with 32 homers and a hundred and five RBIs. He has a .259 profession batting common with 141 homers and 415 RBIs.
"Schoop made a incredible impact on us last yr, and we are searching ahead to having him again with the ballclub for the 2021 season," Tigers general manager Al Avila stated in a statement. "Not simplest have been we inspired via way of means of the on field results, however additionally his influence and relentless preference to be within the lineup day-in and day-out. It's difficult for a one-yr loose agent to have a actual wonderful effect on a clubhouse's culture, however he genuinely done that last season, and we are searching ahead to that continuing."