The Padres exchanged for Blake Snell and Darvish in a 24-hour length
The San Diego Padres have made another offseason sprinkle, as they’re set to procure pro right-hander Yu Darvish from the Cubs as a component of a seven-player exchange. Jon Heyman adds that the arrangement is consented to forthcoming the standard survey of clinical records of the players in question and ought to before long be concluded.
The different sides were close, and, as per Feinsand, the Cubs will get veteran right-hander Zach Davies and a bundle of four possibilities in an arrangement that was consented to Monday night. The Padres will likewise get catcher Victor Caratini in the exchange.
The Darvish exchange comes not long after the Padres, falling off a season finisher season in 2020, swung an arrangement with the Rays for left-hander Blake Snell and allegedly grappled with Korean infielder Ha-Seong Kim.
Darvish, 34, is falling off a season in which he posted the best ERA+ (221) and strikeout-to-walk proportion (6.64) of his profession, but in just 12 beginnings. Darvish’s presentation was with the end goal that it procured him a runner up completion in National League Cy Young Award casting a ballot, behind then-Cincinnati Reds righty Trevor Bauer.
In three seasons with the Cubs, Darvish has accumulated a 3.60 ERA with a 4.08 strikeout-to-walk proportion. Darvish has three years and $59 million leftover on his agreement.
At the present time, the Padres’ 2021 turn incorporates Darvish, Snell, Dinelson Lamet, and Chris Paddack. Also, top possibility MacKenzie Gore isn’t a long way from the most significant level, and Mike Clevinger will return in 2022 after he recuperates from Tommy John medical procedure.
With respect to the Cubs’ side of things, Davies, who turns 28 in February, will give the Cubs some painfully required revolution help. The right-hander claims a lifelong ERA+ of 114 and a K/BB proportion of 2.50 in 123 vocation begins. He’s in line to be qualified with the expectation of complimentary office following the forthcoming season.
The possibilities the Cubs get back are shortstop Reginald Preciado, outfielder Owen Caissie, outfielder Ismael Mena, and shortstop Yeison Santana. Preciado, 17, is a switch-hitting potential five-instrument infielder whose $1.3 million marking reward set a precedent for a possibility out of Panama. From the Cubs’ point of view, Preciado has all the earmarks of being the most encouraging expansion.
Caissie, 18, was every second-balance pick of Canada, and he flaunts projectable force and enough arm for right field. Mena, 18, has a strong hostile toolbox, magnificent speed, and promising reach in the outfield. He’s additionally got the possibility to grow more force from the left side. Santana, 20, has set up solid numbers across two lower levels.
He has the arm to stick on the left half of the infield and great bat-to-ball abilities with the guarantee of more force once he rounds out.
