Grant Balfour Signs With the Tampa Bay Rays

Grant Balfour 

In the aftermath of the Masahiro Tanaka signing all the free agent pitchers are falling off the table. Grant Balfour will be returning to the Tampa Bay Rays under a 2 year $12 Million deal. Balfour previously signed a deal with the Baltimore Orioles which was nullified when the Orioles did not like an aspect of his physical. Balfour will likely replace Fernando Rodney as closer as Rodney is also a free agent. Also in the Rays bullpen is Leo Nunez and Heath Bell. The later innings for the Rays have just become more secure. In his last three seasons all with the Oakland Athletics Grant Balfour accumulated 199 innings pitched with an ERA of 2.53 all out of the bullpen. We shall see what goes on with the 36 year old Australian pitcher in 2014.