The Phillies lock up Jesus Luzardo on a 5-year extension worth $135 million
The Phillies are not letting this rotation walk. Philadelphia signed left-hander Jesus Luzardo to a five-year, $135 million extension on Monday, keeping him in the rotation through at least the 2031 season. Jesus Luzardo had been scheduled to hit free agency after 2026. He will not be going anywhere.
Phillies lock up Jesus Luzardo on a 5-year extension worth $135 Million
The $27 million per year average makes Jesus Luzardo one of the better-paid left-handed starters in baseball and the Phillies clearly decided they had seen enough to commit long term.
In his first season in Philadelphia, Luzardo went 15-7 with a 3.92 ERA, a 2.90 FIP, and 216 strikeouts across 183 innings. He finished seventh in NL Cy Young voting. The FIP being nearly a full run better than his ERA tells you the results were even better than the surface numbers suggest.
This is the Phillies doing what they do. They identified a frontline starter, watched him thrive in their system for one season, and locked him up before he could test the open market. The same instinct that kept Zack Wheeler and Aaron Nola in Philadelphia for years is the one driving this deal.
The rotation now looks like Wheeler, Sanchez, Luzardo, Nola, and Painter. That is a genuinely elite top three and a solid fourth option behind it. For a team built to compete right now with Bryce Harper, Kyle Schwarber, and Trea Turner in the lineup, having that kind of pitching depth locked up for the next five years is how you sustain a contention window.
$135 million for a 27-year-old left-hander with a 2.90 FIP who finished top ten in Cy Young voting. Sign it and move on.
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Also! For a guy named JESUS, he gives me a lot of hell. If he’s what’s waiting for me on the other side, I want no part of it. Just toss me in the sweet abyss.