The Marlins reached an agreement with Mark Buehrle on a four-year contract worth $14.5 million per season:

Manager Ozzie Guillen praised Buehrle over and over at baseball’s winter meetings. They were together on the Chicago White Sox this season, and Guillen was eager to have the left-hander on his side next year.

“This kid is special,” Guillen said. “He pitched in the big scenarios, big moments, very tough city to pitch. When people love you in Chicago, that means something.”

This signing also takes Florida out of the Albert Pujols sweepstakes.

Buehrle is an interesting pitcher. He’s slightly better against left-handed batters over the course of his career, but holds right-handed batters to less power. A low strikeout pitcher, he consistently out-performed his FIP and xFIP. For his career, his ERA stands 0.3 runs lower than his FIP. So Mark does something different that we have trouble measuring.

It’s a good signing as, Mark was worth over $15 million in each of the last five seasons and seven of the last eight.