[新聞] Royals Acquire Cahill, Maurer, Buchter

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Royals Acquire Cahill, Maurer, Buchter From Padres For Strahm, Wood, Ruiz

The Royals have announced an interesting trade with the Padres involving a
whole host of pitchers, as Robert Murray of Fan Rag has first reported on
Twitter. Kansas City will add starter Trevor Cahill, righty reliever Brandon
Maurer, and southpaw Ryan Buchter. In exchange, the Pads will pick up
southpaws Matt Strahm and Travis Wood along with infield prospect Esteury
Ruiz.

For Kansas City, the move represents an effort to bolster the team’s
pitching staff down the stretch — and confirms that the club isn’t planning
on dealing away its pending free agents before the deadline. The Royals
designated Al Alburquerque and Luke Farrell to open roster space, while lefty
Brian Flynn was recalled to the active roster while the team awaits its new
hurlers.

Jul 4, 2017; Cleveland, OH, USA; San Diego Padres starting pitcher Trevor
Cahill (38) delivers in the first inning against the Cleveland Indians at
Progressive Field. Mandatory Credit: David Richard-USA TODAY Sports

The rotation was clearly in need of improvement, and Cahill has tantalized
this year with a career-high 12.8% swinging-strike rate while working
exclusively from the rotation. While he has thrown just 61 innings over 11
starts, owing to a DL stint for a shoulder injury, Cahill owns a 3.69 ERA
with 10.6 K/9 against 3.5 BB/9 along with an excellent 56.8% groundball rate.

Whether Cahill can maintain that kind of production down the stretch is anyone
’s guess. But with relatively few appealing rental starters available, there
weren’t many other places to turn. And Cahill is making just $1.75MM on the
year, so he’s as affordable as rental players come.

Both of the Royals’ new bullpen pieces are also affordable — and, in their
cases, controllable. Maurer, 27, is earning $1.9MM this year with two more
arb campaigns yet to go. While the results haven’t been there for him in
some time, he is carrying impressive peripherals this year (8.7 K/9 against
1.8 BB/9) to go with his upper-nineties fastball.

Bucther is arguably the most valuable asset going to K.C. He is already
thirty years old, but can be controlled all the way through 2021. The
southpaw carries a 2.93 ERA since landing in San Diego, with 11.1 K/9 on the
basis of a swinging-strike rate that’s up to 11.1% this year. While he
issues too many walks (4.4 BB/9 overall) and has been a bit homer-prone (1.64
per nine) this year, Buchter looks to be a quality pen piece at a bargain
price.

On the other side of the ledger, the Friars have evidently gotten an early
start on their winter shopping by adding Wood. Like Cahill (along with
current Padre southpaw Clayton Richard), Wood is a recent Cubs hurler who can
work out of the rotation or the pen. The results haven’t been there this
year — he carries a 6.91 ERA with 6.3 K/9 and 4.3 BB/9 — but there’s some
obvious bounceback potential. While Wood’s contract ($4MM this year, $6.5MM
next, and a $1MM buyout on a $8MM mutual option for the 2019 season) was
under water, Kansas City will be picking up the tab through the end of 2018.

Clearly, then, the focus for San Diego was on the other two players added
today. Strahm is out for the year after surgery for a torn patellar tendon
and didn’t produce great results this year when healthy, but he was
generally viewed as the Royals’ top prospect entering the season. The Padres
have shown a willingness to take on injury risks in the past, and probably
aren’t overly concerned with Strahm’s knee injury. He could open the 2018
season in the rotation or be utilized as a replacement for Buchter in the
bullpen.

And then there’s the true wild card, the 18-year-old Ruiz, whose inclusion
perhaps best explains this swap from the Padres’ perspective. As Ben Badler
of Baseball America wrote earlier this year (subscription required and
recommended), the middle infield has shown flashes of real potential of late,
blossoming after his unheralded international signing. He has mashed in the
Arizona League in 2017, slashing .419/.440/.779 (albeit with twenty
strikeouts and just four walks) over 91 plate appearances.

Trevor Cahill             Matt Strahm

Brandon Maurer    <-->    Travis Wood

Ryan Buchter              Esteury Ruiz (R)


6人大交易，補了目前最需要的牛棚，不過似乎Wood今年跟明年的薪水都我們吃下

果然今年還是當買家...

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