Red Sox signing veteran closer Liam Hendriks to 2-year deal

FORT MYERS, Fla. – Before their first full-squad workout of spring training, the Red Sox made another pitching addition early Monday morning.

A source confirms that the Red Sox are signing veteran reliever Liam Hendriks to a two-year deal pending a physical. He’s already at camp, and joined some of his new teammates in the breakfast room.

The 13-year MLB veteran owns a career 3.82 ERA across 476 regular-season games, including 44 starts, 212 games finished, and 116 saves. He began his career with the Minnesota Twins, followed by stints with the Kansas City Royals, Toronto Blue Jays, Oakland Athletics, and most recently, three seasons with the Chicago White Sox.

Last January, Hendriks announced that he’d been diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. He finished chemotherapy in early April and confirmed he was in remission weeks later. He made his season debut on May 29, but only pitched in five games before going on the injured list with elbow inflammation. He had Tommy John surgery at the beginning of August, and so will miss most, if not all of the upcoming season.

Hendriks, 35, is a three-time All-Star, all since 2019, and won back-to-back American League Reliever of the Year awards for the ’20 and ’21 seasons; he led the AL in saves in the latter year.

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