Report: A's Re-Sign Mike Fiers to 1-Year Deal

Fiers went 6-3 with a 4.58 ERA, 1.38 WHIP and 37 strikeouts in 59 innings in the 2020 season.

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The Oakland Athletics re-signed pitcher Mike Fiers to a one-year deal worth $3.5 million, according to The Athletic's Ken Rosenthal and Alex Coffey. 

Fiers has spent the last two and a half seasons with Oakland after the A's acquired him from the Detroit Tigers in 2018. In 11 starts during the 2020 season, Fiers went 6-3 with a 4.58 ERA, 1.38 WHIP and 37 strikeouts in 59 innings.

Sussan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle reported that the A's were the only team to make Fiers an offer.

The A’s were the only team to make Fiers an offer, I’m told. Interesting - was he being blackballed for being a whistleblower? I certainly hope that’s not the case.

— Susan Slusser (@susanslusser) February 6, 2021

Fiers was a member of the 2017 Houston Astros and two years later became the whistlerblower for the team's sign-stealing scandal. In an interview with Ken Rosenthal and Evan Drellich of The Athletic, Fiers revealed how Houston decoded an opponent's signs electronically in real time using a video monitor and relayed those signs to the batter by banging on a trash can.

Fiers's deal comes on the same day that the A's reportedly acquired shortstop Elvis Andrus from the Rangers for slugger Khris Davis.

The A's went 36-24 last season and finished first in the AL West before losing to the Astros in the American League Division Series.