A week after making a big splash by signing Madison Bumgarner, the Arizona Diamondbacks made another power move, adding slugger Kole Calhoun. Per multiple reports, the deal is for two years and $16 million with a third-year club option:

Calhoun has spent his entire seven-year major league career with the Los Angeles Angels, but will switch leagues and cross the state border and head to Phoenix where he will join a team that is aggressively looking to contend with the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL West.

The 32-year-old hit .232 with 33 home runs in 152 games last season with the Angels. Calhoun played collegiately at Arizona State and will return to familiar confines.

By signing Bumgarner and Calhoun, who are both on the south side of 30, the Diamondbacks feel they are ready to push their chips in to contend now — mixing established veterans with a young squad. Maybe they will be the team in 2020 to finally give the Dodgers a run for NL West supremacy.

yahoosports.com

 

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Outfielder Kole Calhoun and the Arizona Diamondbacks are in agreement on a two-year, $16 million deal, sources tell ESPN. The contract includes a third-year club option for $9 million. @jonmorosi, @Joelsherman1, @nickpiecoro and @Feinsand were among those with details on it

Edited December 25, 20196 yr by caulfield12

Included in its own thread since he was one of the most frequently discussed options at SoxTalk for RF.  Easy to miss over Christmas unless you’re in China for XMas with the day off and wife at work and son at school, haha.

Calhoun is 32 and not on the “south side of 30” like that article suggests.

1 hour ago, Chicago White Sox said:

Calhoun is 32 and not on the “south side of 30” like that article suggests.

https://sports.yahoo.com/hot-stove-tracker-angels-trade-for-orioles-pitcher-dylan-bundy-211008577.html
 

Weird....the header for the link was Dylan Bundy, the top places article was on the White Sox/EE and nobody paid attention to that contradiction in consecutive paragraphs.