Angels sign closer Brian Fuentes

Angels sign closer Brian Fuentes
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The Angels and left-hander Brian Fuentes agreed to a two-year, $17.5 million contract. The contract includes a club option for the 2011 season.

Fuentes will $8.5 million for 2009 and $9 million for 2010, sources told ESPN The Magazine’s Buster Olney. The contract includes a $9 million vesting option for 2011, based on games finished.

Fuentes, 33, saved 30 games for the Colorado Rockies last season with a 2.73 ERA in 62 2/3 innings.

Francisco Rodriguez, the Angels’ closer last season who saved a major league-record 62 games, signed a three-year, $37 million contract earlier this month with the New York Mets.

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