The dust is still set in the aftermath of last week’s big four-player trades with the Twins and Marlins. Luis Araez Sent to Miami in exchange for being right-handed Pablo Lopez and outlook Jose Salas When Byron ChurioThe move shook Minnesota’s lineup and added yet another outside arm to the Twins’ rotation.
As noted by Phil Miller of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, all five members of the expected starting lineup (Lopez, Tyler Murray, Sonny Gray, Joe RyanWhen Kenta Maeda) were all acquired in trade in the last three years. Chris Paddack He is currently recovering from Tommy John surgery, but was acquired in a trade with the Padres before last season. Simeon Woods Richardson Another arm of the depth arm that came to the Twins as part of a deal Jose Berrios To the Blue Jays at the 2021 trade deadline.
While it’s somewhat unusual for a team to build a rotation entirely via the trade market, Twins chief baseball officer Derek Falby told reporters (including St. Paul Pioneer Press’s Miller and Betsy Helfand) I told him frankly:it doesn’t matter where [the starters] come from. You need a really good starter and a really good pitcher. Some of them are slated to be free agency signings, some of them are slated to be trades, and I hope some of them are from development. is to deepen the starting rotation and pitching staff.”
bailey over A domestic product nominated by the Twins in the 12th round of the 2017 draft. The right-hander has started 31 games with 148 and he has pitched well in 1/3 innings in the last two his seasons, but with the addition of Lopez, the overs are out of his mix for now. seems to be out. Of course, rotations rarely stay healthy for an entire season, leaving opportunities for overs and other pitchers like Woods Richardson. Josh Winder, Louis VerlandEtc., you can get some starts when one of the top 5 needs to visit the injured list.
In addition, there is a possibility that the starting 5 players will become the starting 6, and the adoption of a 6-man rotation is “what we often talk about’” Falby admitted. The depth of Minnesota’s tiers gives the team the flexibility to shift him to a six-man rotation if needed.Our hope now is to go with 5 starters and we feel there are 5 good ones…but in the end [we] There’s some depth behind it to make sure we’re in a good placeIf everyone stays healthy and the Twins have a surplus of starting candidates, Falvey described the potential scenario as follows.big problem i have”
The Lopez trade rounds out the book on Ares tenure with the Twins. Because the infielder has gone from being a fairly unknown prospect to being an All-Star, Silver Slugger winner, and AL Batting Champion in 2022. A few years before his big 2022 campaign, his performance dipped a bit into an injury-shortened 2021 season. , wrote that the Twins had discussed a long-term extension with Alaez, but Alaez turned down the club.
As a Super 2 player, Araez was eligible for four appearances through the arbitration process, and he and the Twins agreed to a $2.125 million annual salary for the 2022 season, making Araez the first to qualify for Arb. 2018 evaded public hearings. The terms of Minnesota’s extension offer are not known, but it’s fair to speculate that the Twins were looking for a deal that would cover all four years of arbitration and at least one year of Araez’s free agency. Signing the contract was a great guarantee for Arraez and the first major payday of a career that started with a modest $40K bonus as an international signing.
But Arraez instead chose to bet on rebounding from the 2021 season, and that confidence paid off handsomely. Prior to the trade, Arraez and the Twins headed to an arbitration hearing after failing to reach a salary agreement by the arbitration figures exchange deadline, with Arraez looking for a salary of $6.1MM.Arbitration Hearing But even if it’s a rocky start for the infielder’s relationship with his new team, it sounds like the Marlins could still go for a hearing with Arraez due to general front office principles.
