[外電] Padres,Rays&Nats in 11-player deal

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Source: Myers to Padres in 11-player deal with Rays, Nats

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SAN DIEGO -- Having already landed one big bat for their lineup for next
season in Matt Kemp, could the Padres be closing in on another?

A source told MLB.com on Wednesday that the Padres agreed to a three-team,
11-player trade with the Rays and Nationals, with the centerpiece being
outfielder Wil Myers heading to San Diego.

Myers, catcher Ryan Hanigan, right-hander Gerardo Reyes and left-hander Jose
Castillo head from the Rays to the Padres. San Diego sends right-hander Joe
Ross, catcher Rene Rivera, first baseman Jake Bauers, right-hander Burch
Smith and a player to be named later, who will be 2014 first-round Draft pick
Trea Turner, to Tampa Bay. The Rays then send Ross and Turner to the Nats for
outfielder Steven Souza and lefty Travis Ott. None of the clubs have
confirmed the reports.

Padres get:
Wil Myers, OF (TB)
Ryan Hanigan, C (TB)
Gerardo Reyes, RHP (TB)
Jose Castillo, LHP (TB)

Rays get:
Steven Souza, OF (WSH)
Rene Rivera, C (SD)
Jake Bauers, 1B (SD)
Burch Smith, RHP (SD)
Travis Ott, LHP (WSH)

Nationals get:
Joe Ross, RHP (SD)
Player to be named (Trea Turner, SS) (SD)

Landing Myers, who turned 24 on Dec. 10, and pairing him with Kemp would
certainly give the Padres' languid offense from this past season a
significant boost for 2015.

Such a deal has the Padres parting with a handful of Minor League prospects,
as Turner is their No. 5 prospect, according to MLB.com, while Ross is ranked
eighth, Bauers 14th and Smith 16th.

The Padres have yet to finalize their deal with Kemp, who was part of a
five-player deal reached at the Winter Meetings. He was reportedly in San
Diego to take a physical on Tuesday. A news conference to introduce Kemp
could come as soon as Thursday.

With Myers, first-year general manager A.J. Preller gets the type of player
he has talked about this winter -- a cost-controlled position player. Myers
wouldn't be eligible for free agency until after the 2019 season.

Myers, the 2013 American League Rookie of the Year Award winner, hit
.222/.294/.320 with six home runs and 35 RBIs in 361 plate appearances in a
season cut short to 87 games because of a fractured right wrist.
Oddly enough, this is the second major trade the Padres and Rays have made
this year. In January, under different general managers, the clubs combined
for a seven-player deal that sent pitchers Jesse Hahn and Alex Torres to San
Diego.

The Padres have also had discussions with the Braves about outfielder Justin
Upton and the framework of what a potential deal would look like. San Diego
was believed to be willing to ship a package of prospects to Atlanta even if
it meant just one season of Upton, who will become a free agent after the
2015 season.

If the Padres do land Myers, they would have a real outfield conundrum on
their hands, with six outfielders under contract -- and making well above the
Major League minimum for next season.

Kemp and Myers -- who has primarily played right field in his career -- would
join Carlos Quentin, Cameron Maybin, Will Venable and Seth Smith in what has
suddenly become a crowded outfield picture.

The club could, of course, move one of those players, with the
left-handed-hitting Smith being the most attractive and affordable ($6.5
million) piece for most clubs.

But in terms of landing Kemp and potentially Myers, Preller has stuck to his
guns and hung onto the top three arms in his starting rotation -- choosing to
build around Tyson Ross, Andrew Cashner and Ian Kennedy in 2015 instead of
breaking that trio up and moving asset-for-asset to get offensive help. San
Diego also signed veteran righty Brandon Morrow to a one-year contract on
Tuesday, and he will be a candidate to fill one of the remaining rotation
spots.

"If you have an imbalance right now, you don't want to flip to too far the
other way," Preller said last week. "We are are trying to get more of a
balanced club, and I think an ideal world is to leave [manager Bud Black]
with enough pitching and try to find a way to get a few more bats."

In terms of moving prospects to gain pieces that can help the Padres this
season and beyond, it probably helped that Preller -- hired in August -- had
no connection to the Minor Leaguers in the system. He didn't draft them and
wasn't here for much of their development.

"Sometimes you get too close. Looking back on some of the players with the
Rangers ... you look back on it with a little different lens now," Preller
said.

Could additions of Kemp and, say, Upton with the return of the pitching staff
be enough to help the Padres make a run at their first postseason berth since
2006? Preller has professed optimism on a handful of occasions, so has Black.

"He's looked at our Minor League system," Black said. "He's looked at our
Major League club. He's looked at our pitching. He's looked at our position
player group and he feels, like a lot of us, another bat or two combined with
our pitching can make a world of difference going into '15."

Corey Brock is a reporter for MLB.com. Keep track of @FollowThePadres on
Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball
or its clubs.

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→ vg175: 昨天天氣冷本來想早點睡結果熊熊看到Jeff Passan說Myers交
→ vg175: 易案國民也參一腳而且有一個球員已經動身往特區去 整個嚇醒
→ vg175: 整個晚上都睡不好Orz 結果也是早上六點多才確認完成交易
推 vg175: Souza去坦帕應該可以得到確實的上場空間 祝福他
→ vg175: 他不但幫JZ保住無安打還替球隊帶來未來SS 貢獻超大
推 vg175: Joe Ross: http://ppt.cc/rxNK 我也是看了新聞才知道...
推 s9527206: WOW
推 ps20012001: 雖然很可惜..不過還是祝福Souza..!!!
推 kenkenken31: Souza走了好可惜阿~
→ rodriguez12: Souza被交易其實有點嚇到XD~只能祝福..QQ
→ rodriguez12: http://youtu.be/bTl5gy3igsQ Souza的飛撲~再看一次~
推 ug945: 光頭到底有什麼巫術 越來越神了
→ JustinIdiot: 這…怎麼看 幾乎只用Souza就換回Trea Turner+一個
→ JustinIdiot: 曾經的top pitcher prospect 怎麼看這筆最賺的都是
→ JustinIdiot: 國民阿
→ vg175: 繼前年Morse後Rizzo又一力作 示範怎麼用位置被卡的position
→ vg175: player換回頂級新秀
推 Werth: Turner天花板跟評價如何?
→ Werth: 1A .369/.447.529 才21歲 好像不可限量 這交易有點過強?
推 vg175: 簡單看過一些報導:speed+OBP+俐落防守能力 臂力評價不一
→ vg175: 有人認為他長期站穩SS沒問題 也有人覺得他臂力差會轉2B或CF
→ vg175: 不過很有機會長成未來的開路先鋒這是共識
推 JustinIdiot: 最佳的tool是speed有些甚至給與最高80評分
推 s9527206: Turner應該至少能當個regular player，就看能不能留在SS
推 VaROne: Ken Rosenthal：“I think the Nats must have pics on
→ VaROne:  TB and SD!!” XXXXXXXXXXXXXXD
→ flamelight: 送啦
推 vg175: 那句不是Rosenthal講的啦 不過也不能完全排除是他說的
推 StoneChicken: 我會多關注光芒比賽的
推 VaROne: Turner是今年選秀6月簽約，照規定得待在母隊超過一年才能
→ VaROne: 被交易，Rizzo說相信Padres會好好照顧他，如果6個月後不合
→ VaROne: 球隊要求，口袋裡有其他人選