To avoid salary arbitration, right-handed relief pitcher Vinnie Chulk agreed to a one-year contract worth $837,500. A fairly decent pitcher, Chulk posted a 5-4 record last season, striking out forty-one batters in fifty-three innings pitched with a 3.47 earned run average last season. Chulk was acquired through a trade during the ‘06 season and does an excellent job stranding baserunners. With his accuracy, Chulk features a fastball that ranges between ninety and ninety-five miles per hour, along with a curve, slider, and a change-up, all of which are nasty and opposing right-handed batters hate dealing with. However, Chulk has trouble handling left-handed hitters, and needs to figure out a way to cancel them out.
