The Red Sox on Thursday added veteran left-hander Justin Wilson to their bullpen on a one-year major league deal.

The contract, as first reported by WEEI’s Rob Bradford, comes with a $2.25 million salary and up to $750K in incentives.

Wilson, 37, is a 12-year MLB vet who owns a 3.61 ERA across 587 career games between the Pirates (who drafted him in the fifth round in ‘08), Yankees, Tigers, Cubs, Mets, and Reds.

He already has some Boston credentials as well. He owns a 1.04 ERA over 11 appearances at Fenway Park, which happens to be the site of his first career save, on July 27, 2016. His father, Jim, was the Red Sox’s first-round pick in 1977 and played in their minor leagues from ‘77-83.

The southpaw is coming off his first season back from Tommy John surgery in May ‘22. Looking past the 5.59 ERA – massively inflated by Cincinnati’s Great American Ballpark, which Statcast deemed the most home-run friendly venue in the game for the third consecutive season – there were signs of a strong comeback campaign. Seven of the 10 home runs he allowed were in his 24 home games; visiting lineups hit .316 with a .931 OPS against him. In 32 road appearances, he held opponents to a .255 average and 7.25 OPS.

Wilson’s 60 appearances (46 ⅔ innings) were his most since 2018, and he ranked in MLB’s 95th percentile in chase rate. His 24.4% strikeout and 6.2% walk rates were better than league average, with the latter setting a new career mark. Velocity was up on his slider and four-seamer (95.5 mph, his highest since 2017), and he threw his cutter harder than ever before (92.3 mph).

Red Sox add former division rival’s pitching guru to coaching staff

The Red Sox have agreed to terms with Chris Holt, who will replace Kevin Walker as major league bullpen coach.

Holt, 45, comes to Boston after six seasons in the Orioles organization, including five as their director of pitching. He previously worked in the Houston Astros organization at both the minor- and Major League levels, overlapping with then-assistant general manager Mike Elias. When the Orioles named Elias their general manager in 2018, he poached Holt and analytics guru Sig Mejdal from the Astros.

After two years as Baltimore’s minor league pitching coordinator, the organization promoted Holt to major league pitching coach in 2021. He was also their director of pitching until the end of the 2023 season. He was among those let go earlier this fall, when the organization decided to revamp their coaching staff in the wake of the team’s underwhelming late-season performance and early postseason exit. The Red Sox also dismissed six coaches at season’s end.

Holt is a native of Portland, Maine. In between his brief minor league pitching career and work with the Astros and Orioles, he assistant-coached and coached college and high school baseball.

In Boston, Holt joins a massively overhauled arms department, headed by former Red Sox reliever and current chief baseball officer Craig Breslow, pitching coach Andrew Bailey, and director of pitching, Justin Willard.

With Wilson’s signing, the Red Sox roster is now a full 40 and only one coaching vacancy remains: first base.