The have signed free agent reliever to a three-year, $54 million deal, . CBS Sports HQ Baseball Insider Jim Bowden confirmed the signing. The deal includes a club option for a fourth year, and it's $54 million guaranteed, .At $18 million per year, Hendriks breaks the record average annual value for a relief pitcher Dave Keon Men Jersey , Bowden notes. He surpa ses right-hander ' three-year, $52 million contract he signed in 2018 with the . CHW RP #31 ERA1.78WHIP.67IP25.1BB3K37 Hendriks, who turns 32 next month, has spent the past five seasons with the , helping the A's to an . In 2020, Hendriks saved 14 games in 15 chances and recorded a 1.78 ERA, 0.67 WHIP and 37 strikeouts against two unintentional walks in 25 1/3 innings. He finished ninth Frederik Andersen Kids Jersey in the AL Cy Young voting and 13th in the AL MVP William Nylander Jersey voting. CBS Sports ranked Hendriks as the available this winter. :The beauty of fastball-slider relievers is you never know which one is going to break out or when. Hendriks is a good example. Over the last two seasons, he's thrown 110 innings of 1.79 ERA ball, and has done so while striking out 161 and walking 24. Was there any real indication that this was coming? Not so much. In the preceding three years (all spent with the Athletics, mind you), he had a 4 Josh Jooris Kids Jersey .01 ERA and a 3.64 strikeout-to-walk ratio. Anyway, here's hoping Hendriks receives the payday he deserves, especially after he followed in the footsteps of and this postseason, going above and beyond and risking injury despite his looming date with free agency. Selfle sne s ought to be rewarded, after all.It's been another busy winter for the White Sox. Along with the Hendriks signing, the club also acquired right-handed starter in a trade with the and signed free agent outfielder . In 2020, the White Sox made the expanded playoffs, snapping a 12-year postseason drought, before falling 2-1 to Matt Martin Kids Jersey the Oakland Athletics in the American League Wild Card Series. This offseason, they Rick Renteria before announcing the of .