2024-03-19 01:04:29
Major League Baseball Weekly Express will take you to review the big and small events that happened in the previous week of Major League Baseball.This week (3/12~3/18), Dylan Cease, who has been involved in trade rumors throughout the off-season, was finally traded; Gold Glove outfielder Kole Calhoun announced his retirement; in addition, Blake Snell, who is still on the free market, is waiting to be sold. The Astros are rumored to be interested in recruiting him。
A blockbuster trade on the eve of the season, Dylan Cease joins the San Diego Padres in one-for-four trade
As the major league regular season will officially start in a few days, the pace of reinforcement of each team has not stopped. The San Diego Padres, who will be the first to hold the opening game in South Korea tomorrow, this week used a four-for-one trade to send away potential rookies including Drew Thorpe acquired from the Juan Soto trade in exchange for the Chicago White Sox. Ace pitcher Dylan Cease. The complete package is as follows:
sent by white sox Padres sent right-handed pitcher Dylan Cease right-handed pitcher Jairo Irairte
right-handed pitcher Drew Thorpe
right-handed pitcher Steven Wilson
outfielder Samuel Zavala
The 28-year-old Cease, who has been involved in trade rumors throughout the offseason, is one of the most pressing starting pitchers in the league. With an excellent slider and a fastball that reaches 95~97 mph, he has a high strikeout rate of 28.1% in his career. rate, but unstable ball control is also his biggest obstacle, with a career walk rate as high as 10.4%. Cease once posted a 2.20 ERA and 3.10 FIP in 184 innings pitched in the 2022 season. He also had a 11.1 K/9 value and a 30.4% strikeout rate. He only lost to Justin Verlander in the American League this season. The good result of the second prize was awarded.
Extended reading: There are so many good pitchers, how much is Dylan Cease worth?
What makes Cease so popular all winter is, in addition to its own strength,Plus he has a great value for money contract and the scarcity of good starters on the trade market.. Cease will not become a free agent for two years, and his contract for the next two seasons will only be 20 million US dollars (8 million this year, 12 million next year). In addition, after Glasnow was traded, there will be no other players in the trading market who have a proven track record and a good player like Cease. The team’s immediate pitchers in the rebuilding stage have become quite scarce, which has caused his trade value to continue to rise. Considering the past asking prices for pitchers like this (think Verlander or Pablo López), it’s not unreasonable for the Padres to pay four rookies for him.
The White Sox’s goals are pretty clear: acquire young potential and bolster farm depth. They know the value of Cease very well, and they don’t even need to rush to sell it this season until the best package is available. Apparently the new general manager Chris Getz thought this was a package he could accept after evaluation and sent Cease away before the start of the season; the Padres’ addition of Cease is undoubtedly a shot in the arm for the starting rotation. With Bishop, Joe Musgrove and Michael King, this rotation will be quite competitive with Cease as the No. 2 starter.
Aaron Judge strives to catch up to the start of the season, Gerrit Cole ends his four-year tenure as the starter in the opening game
The New York Yankees, who went 82-80 the previous season, ended six consecutive seasons of entering the playoffs and almost wrote their first season with a winning percentage of less than 50% since 1992, this off-season has recruited Juan Soto, among others. Many good players intended to get rid of the sluggishness of the previous season and return to the playoffs in the new season, but bad news came one after another during spring training.
First of all, Gerrit Cole, the American League Baseball Award winner from the previous season, had difficulty recovering from fatigue after a spring training game and underwent an MRI of his right elbow. Although no tear in the ligament in his right hand was detected, surgery was not required. Treatment, but he is still expected to miss one to two weeks, and he will definitely not be able to make it to Opening Day, which will also end his record of four consecutive years as the Yankees’ opening game starter from 2020 to 2023.
How much impact will missing Cole have on the Yankees? In last year’s season, when Cole started the game, the Yankees achieved a good record of 23 wins and 10 losses. However, when Cole was not the main pitcher, they only had 59 wins and 70 losses. Excluding Cole, the Yankees’ remaining pitchers had an ERA of 5.06. . During Cole’s absence, Cody Poteet, Luke Weaver, Will Warren, Clayton Beeter and Luis Gil are all expected to assume the starting position.
Yankees head coach Aaron Boone also announced that Nestor Cortes will replace Cole as the starter in the team’s opening game, followed by Carlos Rodón and Marcus Stroman who will pitch in the second and third games respectively.
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