J.P. Hoornstra writes and edits Major League Baseball content. A veteran of 20 years of sports coverage for daily newspapers in California, J.P. covered MLB, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Los Angeles Angels (occasionally of Anaheim) from 2012-23 for the Southern California News Group. His first book, The 50 Greatest Dodgers Games of All-Time, published in 2015. In 2016, he won an Associated Press Sports Editors award for breaking news coverage. He once recorded a keyboard solo on the same album as two of the original Doors.
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Free agent starting pitcher Nick Pivetta is leaving the Boston Red Sox to sign with a National League West contender.
The San Diego Padres will add Pivetta to a rotation that was already strong at the top with Michael King, Dylan Cease and Yu Darvish, and pushed the eventual champion Los Angeles Dodgers to the brink of elimination in last year’s NL Division Series.
According to multiple reports, it’s a four-year, $55 million contract for Pivetta, who rejected the Red Sox’s qualifying offer last season to test the free agent market.
More to come on this story from Newsweek Sports.
Nick Pivetta #37 of the Boston Red Sox reacts as he is doused with water after pitching a complete game against the Houston Astros on May 18, 2022 at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. Nick Pivetta #37 of the Boston Red Sox reacts as he is doused with water after pitching a complete game against the Houston Astros on May 18, 2022 at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images
