The Yankees, meanwhile, continued their rebuild with a package from Texas headlined by minor-league RHP Dillon Tate, the fourth overall pick in the 2015 draft. Rivero will pitch the seventh inning, Neftali Feliz the eighth with Tony Watson replacing Melancon as the closer. NY agreed to send Texas cash to offset part of Beltran’s $15 million salary.
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Green has been a starter, but I would think his chance at the majors would be as a pen arm. We got the best bat that was moved on Monday, and we gave up some pretty good young players for him. The Rangers will have a $5.25 option for the 30-year-old to continue to play with them next season, which they will nearly certainly pick up before he can sign anywhere in 2017. He will be eligible for free agency after this year’s World Series.
Beltran has batted.281 with 414 home runs in 1,507 regular-season games with Kansas City, Houston, the New York Mets, San Francisco, St. Louis and Yankees.
Brinson owns a.275 career batting average to along with 72 home runs 81 steals in five minor league seasons. However, one of the teams on Lucroy’s no-trade clause were the Indians, and the catcher vetoed the deal to join the AL Central leading Indians. The Rangers recently lost Prince Fielder to a season-ending neck injury and Beltran is expected to help a team with a six-game lead in the AL West. The Dodgers are patching together what they can while Kershaw recovers from a herniated disk in his lower back. For only 17 outings in Class A, Tate recorded a WHIP of 1.62, a 5.40 ERA with only 55 strikeouts in 65 innings.
The Yankees started the rebuilding process trading three major players in Chapman, Miller and Beltran.
– The Cleveland Indians added depth to their outfield by acquiring Brandon Guyer from the Tampa Bay Rays.
After getting top prospects Gleybar Torres and Clint Frazier in the deals for Chapman and Miller, the Yankees are obtaining someone who has struggled after being a top-100 prospect this season.
The Rangers on Monday added two big bats in their push for a second straight AL West title, acquiring OF/DH Carlos Beltran from NY and C Jonathan Lucroy from the Brewers.
In trading for Tate on Monday – making him the centerpiece of the Carlos Beltran deal with the Rangers – the Yankees are betting that it’s only Tate’s short-term value that has changed, and not his ultimate ceiling.
Luis “Lulu” Ortiz is 20 years old, and was the top pitching prospect in the Rangers’ organization. They tried to get Milwaukee’s Lucroy, but he rejected a trade, allowed by his contract. A player to be named later will eventually go to the Brewers, as well. The Indians aren’t sure what they are going to get from Gomes or outfielder Michael Brantley, their best hitter from a year ago who has been on the disabled list all season.
FILE – This April 19, 2016 file photo shows Milwaukee Brewers relief pitcher Jeremy Jeffress throwing against the Minnesota Twins in the ninth inning of a baseball game in Minneapolis.
On his Twitter account after Monday’s deal to the Rangers, Lucroy wrote, “let’s take this bad boy to the ‘ship! He’s got a great spin rate on his curveball, so that’s another additional piece that we’re excited about”.
Thank you @Brewers fans for everything!Nothing but love and respect from our family.
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Since his first full season in 2011, Lucroy has been one of the best offensive catchers in baseball and possesses a career 0.284/0.342/0.436 slash line. Center fielder Travis Jankowski went 3-3 in the game, as the Padres belted out 10 hits off Brewers pitching, 8 of those off of starter Jimmy Nelson.
