12.09. The San Diego Padres acquired star right fielder Juan Soto and Josh Bell from the Washington Nationals ahead of MLB's trade deadline Tuesday. To round out the deal, the Nats are picking up big league first basemanLuke Voit. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for 2022 Topps Holiday #HW112 CJ Abrams SSP Necklace PSA 9 Mint at the best online prices at eBay! Nationals third. Nationals call up C.J. CJ Abrams Minor Leagues Statistics | Baseball-Reference.com We've updated our WAR calculations based on new data updates. Across 236 plate appearances, the lefty-hitting Wood owns a .337/.453/.601 line. He went on to make 13 starts while the club navigated injuries toBlake Snell andMike Clevinger, pitching to a 4.27 ERA with a solid 23.1% strikeout rate. Hes played sporadically at each of shortstop, second base and in the outfield with a win-now team in San Diego, but he should have a clearer path to everyday playing time at shortstop on the Nationals. Garca wont lose his spot in the starting lineup on a rebuilding team, though. For just $0.83/month, get an ad-free experience and access to RotoBaller's VIP Discord Chat Community, If you can't subscribe, please consider turning off your adblocker for RotoBaller.com, One of the significant returns for the Washington Nationals in the trade for. In theory, the pair could headline the kind of package the Nationals seek: a combination of youth, club. Included in the fun were four home runs, a 5.3 percent walk rate, and an 11.6 percent strikeout rate. He also is the ninth-youngest player in the Majors. This year, he appeared in games for the Nationals, the Padres and both of their Triple-A affiliates (Rochester and El Paso). Preller to consider a move particularly if one of those arms can bring back MLB-ready outfield help. Hell presumably need more than a few weeks to become completely comfortable reading fly balls off the bat, but theres little doubt hes athletic enough to develop into a long-term outfield option. C.J. Stronger side of trade. Games started percentages for RHP vs LHP are based on last 30 days. 16. Between 2019-21, Soto hit .304/.440/.561. Soto again turned down the Nationals overtures this time a 15-year, $440MM proposal and the club pivoted to the trade market. San Diego is anticipating Soto will go down as one of the most impactful trade pickups in MLB history, and he and Bell will immediately feature in the middle of a lineup the club hopes is set to embark on a long-term playoff run. It remains to be seen how first-year skipper Bob Melvin will deploy the 21-year-old in the early going. The others areleft-handed pitcher MacKenzie Gore, outfielders Robert Hassell III and James Wood, right-handed pitcher Jarlin Susana and first baseman/designated hitterLuke Voit. When he does lift the ball, you can expect to see it soar. He remains controllable through the end of the 2028 season, and future optional assignments could push that trajectory back even further. Abrams has played the middle infield exclusively during his minor league tenure. Its a territory with which the franchise is evidently now comfortable, and theyll be rewarded for their aggressiveness with one of the sports most entertaining rosters. Trayce Thompson andNomar Mazara are in camp as non-roster invitees and could both get big league looks, but neither is necessarily an upgrade over Profar and Beaty. The best-case scenario these days is a sort of Dylan Moore-like outcome. He's featured in 43 games for the Padres this season, his first year of MLB action, and has slashed .231/.280/.322 with 2 home runs and. The 2020 home run champ, he hasnt managed to replicate that kind of production over the last two seasons. The Nationals lost two of three games to the Padres this weekend in the teams' first series since the trade. This almost represented uncharted territory. The former sixth overall pick bypassed Triple-A entirely to crack the Opening Day roster. Hes a lefty-hitting outfielder who brings a generally well-rounded center field profile. Soto hit .292/.406/.517 in 116 games as a rookie. Im excited to get going and have fun with it.. A worst-case scenario might look something like Adolis Garcia with plate discipline. Theyre in possession of the National Leagues second Wild Card spot and a likely playoff team, but even adding Soto and Hader is unlikely to give them much of a chance at erasing a 12-game deficit to the Dodgers in the NL West. Another CJ, CJ Hinojosa, was optioned to Triple-A El Paso earlier today along with Nomar Mazara, Travis Bergen and Taylor Kohlwey. And when he returns home one year older, Abrams will be able to unpack his rookie season -- literally. Abrams returns to the big leagues a bit more than five weeks after being optioned out. With Garcias injury, it seems like he is set to make his debut as a National, about two weeks after the trade. San Diego is now dealing with an injury to their other star left side infielder, asManny Machado sprained his left ankleyesterday. He is viewed as a key piece of the Nationals future since being acquired from the Padres at the Trade Deadline. Zuckerman notes that Franco may be in better position to remain in the lineup. The Nationals had reportedly set an asking price of five-plus young major leaguers and/or prospects in any Soto talks, and thats what theyll receive. (K.C. He is viewed as a key piece of the Nationals' future since being acquired from the Padres at the Trade Deadline. CJ Abrams has consistently been ranked as one of the top prospects in baseball since he was drafted in 2019. He hit a slightly above-average level in the Bronx last year while battling injuries, and its been a fairly similar story in San Diego. Thats all I know, the Padres, because they drafted me, Abrams said Tuesday night before he played his first game at Frontier Field. San Diego originally selected Abrams with the sixth overall pick in the 2019 draft out of a Georgia high school. Still have stuff in boxes [from February], he said with a laugh. The Cardinals and Dodgers were generally viewed among San Diegos top rivals in the bidding for Soto, and theres surely an added bonus in keeping him away from teams whom San Diego could plausibly meet in the postseason for the next few years. He was hitting .290 with four stolen bases when the Nationals promoted the shortstop on August 15 to replace the injured Luis Garca. Abrams went 0-for-4 with a run scored and a stolen base in Tuesday's 8-2 loss to Atlanta. They have nothing to offer Soto except hope. The Cleveland Guardians and Boston Red Sox had to accept well below equal value in return for Lindor and Betts, respectively, because they each had only one more year of team control. Victor Robles to third. A well-regarded signee out of South Korea, Kim struggled during his rookie season in MLB. Cruz is built like a young Aaron Judge, and he hits the ball nearly as hard. Very athletic kid, hes tall and lean, said Wings manager Matt LeCroy. And all of our infielders have actually been taking ground balls throughout the infield now, so its kind of nice. Hes now followed up with the kind of blockbuster thatll define his front office tenure. Preller and his group have shown a willingness to swing for marquee talent time and again. Acquired from the Yankees over the offseason, Voit has played in 82 games with San Diego. He launched 27 home runs in 472 plate appearances last season before tearing through the Arizona Fall League one home run and a .467/.568/.667 triple-slash in 30 plate appearances. Once again, the Wings blew another game in the late innings Wednesday and fell 9-8 to Norfolk that extended their losing streak to 19 games. The lesser ball in play results do reflect a slight downturn in his batted ball quality, but Sotos batted ball metrics and exit velocities are better than his actual batting average and slugging output might suggest. But Im enjoying it, having fun playing baseball, living the dream, really.. Joey Wiemer, 23, OF, Brewers (AA) (K.C. I just go by the present day and keep going, just keep playing and doing my thing out there. Join the Best Live Fantasy Chat Community! Gores 11.5% walk percentage remained a bit high, but it wasnt anywhere near the level of control concerns hed had in prior seasons. Melvin can give regular shortstop run to either of Abrams or Kim, and the Pads are set to rely on some combination ofJurickson Profar,Brent Rooker andMatt Beaty in left field. I had a good development there and now Ill take it over here and keep going. MLB Trade Analyzer. He still possesses tantalizing power and speed along with decent plate discipline. for. Trading for Soto is in line with the approach of general manager A.J. Hernndez owns a .241/.305/.306 line through 476 plate appearances. Manager Dave Martinez told reporters (including Andrew Golden of the Washington Post) that the club will take advantage of a team off-day on Thursday to skip Corbins next turn through the rotation. This Soto stuff is just so depressing. he Washington Nationals are calling up C.J. Azocar has never hit more than 10 homers in a minor league season and has well below-average power, but evaluators have long credited him as a plus runner and solid defensive outfielder. It has already been a lengthy absence from a big league mound for Clevinger, who underwent Tommy John surgery in November 2020 and subsequently missed all of last season. Indeed, though hes now appeared in six major league seasons (dating to his 2015 debut with the White Sox) and delivered better-than-replacement-level production on the whole in his big-league career (.205/.280/.397 in 640 plate appearances), Thompsons departure from the 26-man roster marks another failure to find a permanent home for the 31-year-old former second-rounder. They weren't consistent winners, nor were they notable for their futility. New York Yankees Notes Pittsburgh Pirates San Diego Padres Bryan Reynolds Chris Paddack CJ Abrams Luke Voit Mike Clevinger Ryan Weathers, By Anthony Franco | March 30, 2022 at 9:34pm CDT. Abrams is presumably the first player of the deal Washington fans will see at Nationals park, as hes likely to soon join the MLB roster. That was before their latest (and ultimately final) attempt to sign him to a long-term deal. Its possible hell learn to lay off marginal pitches in the Majors to improve his outcomes. President of baseball operations A.J. Hes a switch-hitting power bat who topped out with 37 home runs with the Pirates back in 2019. He's the San Diego. Dan J. Glickman of Pickin Splinters then relayed word from Red Wings manager Matt LeCroy that the removal of Abrams was on order of the big league club, with ESPNs Jeff Passan later confirming that Abrams will indeed be called up. The sixth overall pick in the 2019 draft, Abrams almost immediately played his way towards the top of prospect lists in pro ball. Abrams only had 46 major league games under his belt when Washington acquired him from the San Diego Padres last season as one of six players in the Juan Soto trade. 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