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标题[消息] Tigers Acquire Francisco Rodriguez
时间Thu Nov 19 02:48:36 2015
By Jeff Todd | November 18, 2015 at 10:43am CST
The Tigers have officially acquired reliever Francisco Rodriguez from the
Brewers. Infielder Javier Betancourt will head to Milwaukee in the swap.
Detroit will also send a player to be named in the deal.
Sep 29, 2015; San Diego, CA, USA; Milwaukee Brewers relief pitcher Francisco
Rodriguez (57) pitches during the ninth inning against the San Diego Padres
at Petco Park. Mandatory Credit: Jake Roth-USA TODAY Sports
K-Rod was something of a forgotten man in early-offseason discussions of
relief trade chips, but it always seemed likely that he’d change hands.
After all, new Brewers GM David Stearns has clearly been tasked with
rebuilding. Rodriguez is obviously not a long-term piece, and his backloaded
contract still has $9.5MM left to go (including the buyout of a 2017 option).
Detroit will pay the entirety of the remaining obligation. But with $2MM
going to the buyout and another $2MM of salary deferred, some of that cost
will be pushed into the future. It’s also worth noting that the $6MM option
will really only represent a $4MM decision for Detroit, and could well end up
being exercised.
Though he’s now nearly 34 years of age, Rodriguez has continued to be a
reliable force at the back of the pen. He ended the 2015 season with 57
innings of 2.21 ERA pitching, striking out 9.8 and walking only 1.7 batters
per nine along the way. Rodriguez also permitted a meager 6.0 hits per nine,
leaving him with an outstanding (and career-low) 0.860 WHIP on the season.
It’s true that Rodriguez benefitted from a .234 BABIP last year, and an even
lower one in the season prior, but he’s carried a .271 mark for his career
and also put up a strong 46.4% groundball rate. Of greater concern, perhaps,
is that Rodriguez has been increasingly homer-prone as his arm speed has
dropped. He lost a full mile per hour off his average fastball velocity
between 2014 and 2015, falling below 90 mph for the first time. Then again,
that didn’t stop him from producing a 14.0% swinging strike rate — a level
he hasn’t reached since he was with the Angels.
Rodriguez fills the stated desire of Tigers GM Al Avila to add a proven
closer. He locked down 38 wins last year and has racked up 386 saves over his
career, leading all active pitchers. While the value of the save as a
statistic is plenty debatable, there’s little reason to fear that Rodriguez
will be ruffled by high-leverage situations. And his acquisition will reduce
the team’s need to spend more on the open market (or on other trade targets)
to add pen help, clearing more resources to dedicate to starting pitching.
Meanwhile, the Brewers will not only shed some salary but will pick up a
useful young player in Betancourt, who reached the High-A level last year at
age 20. He currently sits at 11th among Tigers prospects, in the estimation
of MLB.com, which says that he profiles more as a second baseman but is still
capable of handling shortstop. Betancourt looks to be a contact hitter and
hasn’t yet shown himself to be much of a long ball or stolen base threat. He
slashed .263/.304/.336 in 531 plate appearances over the 2015 season,
striking out only 44 times against 29 walks.
Venezuelan journalist Augusto Cardenas first reported the swap via Twitter.
James Schmehl of MLive.com reported the inclusion of a PTBNL on Twitter, and
Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com tweeted that Detroit would take all of Rodriguez’
s salary.
Javier Betancourt (IF) + PTBNL <-> Fransisco Rodriguez (RP)
K-Rod又被交易出去了...
和老虎队换到 老虎农场第11号新秀 内野手 Betancourt,
另外还有一位小联盟球员。
K-Rod是2015年少数成绩不错的酿酒人球员,
尽管今年的K-Rod的BABIP偏低,这两年的被全垒打率有点高,
仍在40次的救援机会中,只失败了两次。
但因为未来K-Rod的薪水会变高,不在酿酒人重建时期的队形中
所以将他在此时交易出去是最好的选择。
K-Rod是第7位酿酒人今年交易出去的大联盟球员,
在这之前有:Gallardo, Ramirez, Gomez, Fiers, Parra, Cotts等人被交易出去,
可以说是进入完全的重建期。
不过总觉得K-Rod之後又会自己回来...
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1F:推 broken543: 终於补血了,不过对於Betancourt这个姓有点阴影... 11/19 03:00
2F:推 fountainNess: K-Rod跟酒鬼是很好吗? 11/19 03:01
3F:→ fountainNess: 第二次被交易还回来就真的很神奇了... 11/19 03:02
4F:→ shoshobe: K-Rod球速失速後能再找到武器和酿酒人的投教有关系 11/19 03:06
5F:→ shoshobe: K-Rod在这边学到了变速球 11/19 03:07
6F:→ shoshobe: 我觉得他个性有变很多 在酿酒人被开小联盟约又被交易... 11/19 03:09
7F:→ shoshobe: 当年大家的痛 古巴巨炮Betan还在打耶... 11/19 03:16
8F:推 pitchstar: 又拿投手换内野了,Villar预估是明年三垒手… 换出去 11/20 18:54
9F:→ pitchstar: 的Cy Sneed明明很威呀@@ 11/20 18:54
10F:→ shoshobe: 在规则五保护名单决定前还交易 看来GM觉得40人名单够用 11/21 00:07
11F:→ shoshobe: 希望到时候不要有人被摸走... 11/21 00:07
12F:推 pitchstar: 原来是为了把Sardinas交易出去铺梗~ 11/21 10:30
13F:→ shoshobe: Adam Lind去水手 又跟水手做交易 12/10 00:27
14F:→ shoshobe: 规则五先摸走双城2012年第四轮的Zach Jones 12/10 23:24
15F:→ shoshobe: 喔 第一轮是摸走运动家的工具人Colin Walsh 12/10 23:32
16F:→ pitchstar: 偷一墩拿钱换来Cecchini,打过12强,三垒补好只剩中外洞 12/11 01:45
17F:推 LucasDuda: 入选十二强的是他弟弟,我梅的Gavin,而且他最後因伤退 12/16 01:45
18F:→ LucasDuda: 赛XD 12/16 01:45