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Covering 2023 and 2024 with 2025 team option. Covers his arb years and possibly one more. Terms not yet available.
Gallegos gets a $500,000 signing bonus and salaries of $4.5 million next year and $5.5 million in 2024. St. Louis has a $6.5 million team option for 2025 with a $500,000 buyout.
His 2025 option price can increase by up to $3.5 million for games finished in 2024: $500,000 each for 20-25 and 26-30 and 31-35, and $1 million apiece for 36-40 and 41 or more.
He would get $250,000 for winning the Rivera/Hoffman Reliever of the Year award, $50,000 for All-Star selection and World Series MVP and $25,000 for League Championship Series MVP.
One thing that can be said about Gallegos is that he shows up for every outing and gives it his best shot. I get nervous every time he gets into a game, but the great majority of the time, he does what he’s supposed to do. All in all, it looks like a fair deal. The Cardinals get an experienced, and more often than not, effective reliever for a reasonable price, and a really nice guy like Giovanny Gallegos gets to be a multimillionaire.
Yep, Gio seems to make everybody nervous. Wonder what impact the clock will have on him, beyond making him pick up the pace? Good point by mud about his availability. I haven’t checked any stats, but it has seemed like he’d become much steadier over the last few weeks to the point I was not getting so nervous — not counting last night.
I don’t have a lot of confidence when Gio comes in either, but then he usually gets the job done. Plus that is the life of a late inning pitcher – the game is usually tight, so any mistake is magnified.
I like Gallegos as a setup guy. I do not like him as a closer. No spreadsheet will ever convince me that the final three outs are the same as the others.
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