[情報] Astros Acquire Gerrit Cole

[troy30408 (南宮洛)]

The Astros have acquired right-hander Gerrit Cole from the Pirates for
righties Joe Musgrove and Michael Feliz, third baseman Colin Moran and
outfielder Jason Martin, according to announcements from both teams.

Houston and Pittsburgh nearly reached an agreement on a Cole trade earlier
this week, but reports of a done deal proved premature. The two sides
continued to negotiate, however, and have now come together on one of the
most noteworthy trades of the offseason. Cole is the second potential
front-end starter the Astros have acquired since last August, when they
landed longtime Tigers ace Justin Verlander, who ultimately helped pitch them
to their first-ever World Series title a couple months later.

With Verlander, Dallas Keuchel, Charlie Morton, Lance McCullers and Collin
McHugh among their starters on hand, the Astros didn’t exactly have a
desperate need for Cole heading into next season. But adding Cole should
nonetheless increase their chances to finish atop the major league mountain
again in 2018, and with two years of team control remaining, he figures to
help their cause again in 2019. Neither Keuchel nor Morton is under contract
through that season, which helps explains why the Astros have been in on Cole
and other high-end starters this offseason. The Astros’ addition of Cole
should affect top free agents like Yu Darvish and Jake Arrieta, both of whom
have been on their radar this winter, as it seems to remove a potential
suitor in each case.

Cole, who settled on a $6.75MM salary for his penultimate year of arbitration
control on Friday, is coming off a somewhat disappointing season. Although
the 27-year-old racked up 203 innings and continued to serve as one of the
majors’ hardest-throwing starters, a bloated home run-to-fly ball rate (15.9
percent, well above his career figure of 10.0) helped lead to a
personal-worst 4.26 ERA/4.08 FIP.

Given his down 2017, the Pirates weren’t in position to sell high on Cole.
However, as a Scott Boras client nearing free agency, the low-payroll club
knew its chances to extend him weren’t good. Consequently, the Bucs shopped
Cole around the league – including to the Yankees, Twins and Cubs – before
sending him to the Astros. Cole had been with the Pirates since they selected
him first overall in the 2011 draft, and he looked like an ace with them at
times after debuting in 2013. All told, Cole registered a 3.50 ERA/3.27 FIP
with 8.44 K/9, 2.34 BB/9 and a 47.4 percent groundball rate across 782 1/3
innings in Pittsburgh.

Parting with Cole could begin a rebuild for the Pirates, who finished under
.500 for the second straight year in 2017. However, acquiring three major
league-ready players for him in Musgrove, Moran and Feliz may also help them
compete next season. The headliner is arguably the 25-year-old Musgrove, a
former top 100 prospect who has worked as both a starter and reliever since
debuting in 2016. While Musgrove scuffled as a starter last season, he was
utterly dominant in his first big league action out of the bullpen. Moving to
a relief role enabled Musgrove to ramp up his velocity, and it helped lead to
a 1.44 ERA with just under nine strikeouts per nine and a paltry 1.44 BB/9
across 31 1/3 innings. It’s unclear whether he’ll be a starter or a
reliever going forward, but with five years of control, the Pirates will have
time to find an ideal role for him.

Moran was a first-round pick of the Marlins in 2013 who topped out as
Baseball America’s 61st-ranked prospect after that season, though he hasn’t
seen much action in the majors to this point (37 plate appearances). And with
the emergence of third baseman Alex Bregman, there simply wasn’t a path to
playing time in Houston. The 25-year-old Moran held his own in 2017 at
Triple-A – his second season at that level – with a .308/.373/.543 line in
338 PAs. Moran ranked as the Astros’ fifth-best prospect prior to the trade,
according to MLB.com, which lauds “his pure left-handed swing and his
ability to barrel balls easily while controlling the strike zone.”
 Defensively, Moran has the hands and arm to handle third, though he lacks
range, per MLB.com.

Feliz, 24, amassed significant experience out of the Astros’ bullpen over
the previous two seasons, during which he combined to make 98 appearances and
throw 121 innings. While Feliz brought high-90s heat, posted a sky-high 13.14
K/9 and a passable 3.5 BB/9 along the way, he only managed a 4.94 ERA –
 owing in part to a low groundball percentage (37.1 percent) and a lofty home
run-to-fly ball rate (16.5 percent). ERA indicators have been bullish on
Feliz, who owns a career 3.67 FIP and 3.17 xFIP. He comes with four years of
control, including a pre-arbitration season in 2018.

Martin, an eighth-round pick in 2013, brings the least fanfare of anyone in
this trade, with Rosenthal noting on Twitter that he may end up as a reserve
outfielder down the line. MLB.com agrees that he won’t turn into a regular
option in the corner outfield, though it rated Martin 15th in Houston’s
system and suggested he has a chance to develop into a starting center
fielder. The 22-year-old spent most of last season in Double-A, where he
slashed .273/.319/.483 in 320 PAs.

跟太空人交易
Michael Feliz + Colin Moran + Jason Martin + Joe Musgrove <-> Gerrit Cole
太空人幾隻算是蠻眼熟的(有上過MLB)
但當初果然只是喊喊-.-"
喊的人都沒來lol
接下來看McCutchen / Harrison 有沒有被賣(?
感覺明年先發陣容又有得洗牌了...

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※ 編輯: troy30408 (49.217.145.115), 01/14/2018 09:47:54
推 EEERRIICC: 補牛是不錯，如果能多幾隻可以長期控制的就好qq
→ troy30408: 海盜季末才丟一堆牛QAQ...
推 fountainNess: 有機會當SP啊
→ fountainNess: 確切一點應該是說Mus原本就是SP，看你們修不修得好
推 icetornado: 有哪位大大可以分析一下這筆交易阿 看不懂阿
→ icetornado: 海盜是否要重建?還是只是重整?
→ loveAJB: 非重建，但換的很差，憨汀手法永遠摸不著頭緒
→ LucasDuda: 這樣換就是重整了吧
推 searoar: 這包很爛 大概半年的Cole就會得到 大概很愛Moran吧
推 Zamned: 這包想像力少了點而已
→ Zamned: 選NYY那包可能會虧到屍骨無存
→ Zamned: 怪就怪這麼想賣Cole 你們老闆是多窮啊
推 searoar: 整個系統都缺天分 只能以量制價 quantity>quality
→ searoar: 憨汀還說用2年控制權換15年 有夠神邏輯
推 a679nn: 考程！！！！！！！QQ
推 fountainNess: McCutchen，敬業的球員QQ
推 chieher: 我賊再見...qq
推 buccos: 烤雞還是走了  因為他才支持海賊的
推 pejahuang: 巨人農場不是普普麻@@
推 Bagwell5: 真慘..看國中坦那麼久的海盜也才強起來沒幾年就要拆團
→ EEERRIICC: 沒辦法啊去年就姜跟馬鐵喇賽
→ sastl07: 雀迷推烤雞
推 loveAJB: 下一波 Harrison
推 magita6002: 哀
推 pasaword: 憨丁真的很不行  = =
推 icetornado: 為啥海盜管理團隊還這麼有信心說我們不是重建？
推 ms9: 說重建門票就難賣了...
推 searoar: 我也覺得不是在重建 只是省錢
推 icetornado: 先不論海盜是不是很衰遇到Kang、馬鐵出包，光Nicasio
→ icetornado: 那件事，我就覺得莫名其妙了。還是換老闆比較實在。
→ icetornado: 我看不出這樣的陣容哪邊不是重建阿？Meadow還沒證明
→ icetornado: 自己、Glasnow、Keller都還在培養，明年先發陣容就靠
→ icetornado: Taillon、Nova、Williams撐? 連四號五號都不知道是誰
→ troy30408: Musgrove大概也會排先發(?
→ searoar: Nicasio就是省600K 照FG的勝率預測 海盜沒變還是75勝
推 searoar: 2019團隊薪資剩5個人不是底薪 0人要仲裁 (Cervelli最貴)
→ searoar: 到時40人名單有35個Pre-Arb Cervelli和Nova八成也會弄走
→ searoar: 然後主要是重建應該都會換GM吧 有GM自己重建自己的嗎
推 pasaword: 重建自己蠻好笑的XD