Report: Ryan Pressly Traded To Houston
Jul 27 2018 08:55 PM |
Seth Stohs
in Minnesota Twins
Jorge Alcala will turn 23 tomorrow. The Dominican native has 82 strikeouts in 79 1/3 innings for the Astros High A and AA affilaites. He is the #8 Astros prospect per Baseball America. Some reports indicate he is another hard-thrower who can hit 100 mph.
Celestino is 19, also from the Dominican. He has played in the short-season New York/Penn League and played in three games at AA earlier this year. He has hit a combined .299 with eight doubles and four homers. Also 14 steals in 36 games.
Ryan Pressly was said to be the Twins player that almost all contending teams were asking about. His velocity and spin rate made him, along with having one more year of arbitration, made him intriguing to a lot of teams.
The former Twins Rule 5 pick has really made strides in 2018 after looking the part and showing glimpses over his years with the Twins.
Pressly is a Texas native, so he's kind of heading home and will fit into an already strong Astros bullpen.
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So anyone want to speculate how valuable spin rate is?
How high on the prospect list does it have to be to satisfy the Belisle Bomb he just gave up?
Right?
To me this suggests that there is a good chance Kyle Gibson gets traded as well. If the front office was willing to move one of the 2019 controllable players, you would have to image that both of them would be on the table. Still, they shouldn't settle on a deal for Gibson unless they get a great offer.
Good trade again by the FO.Alcala has a big fastball and above slider to go with a good curve and change.Celestino has a 55 hit tool and is only 19.The FO is setting us up nicely for the future.Thank you!!
Not trying to play editor, but .....
Celestino has been at Short Season A ball and what looks to be a fill-in job at AA bridging the gap from EST.
"Splitting time between high A and AA" is a bit misleading.
yeah, well I might be dead by the time the "future" get here....
I think trading Gibson means the FO doesn't think the Twins can compete next year either.
The order in which these guys move isn't going to necessarily line-up with who we think should be gone.This is going to be news filled weekend.I really hope Gibson stays as well, but you never know who will offer the farm.Falvine gets their opportunity to make a stamp, I guess.
with about 10 teams with a better record in the AL, might be the sane move.No?
In terms of return? I think the returns on both are decent considering the situations. Pressly was bound to command more with that year of control and profile as a power bullpen piece. 60 games and prayer with a player like Escobar returned solid value, IMO.The pitcher looks like a promising player for sure.
Dozier on the other hand...
Gotta think the FO thought the return was too good to turn down for Pressly, a controllable asset.
As mentioned above, gotta believe if Gibby gets moved then that tells you how the front office thinks about next year. But I'd also add that that means they probably aren't putting too much stock into Buxton and Sano ever become decent players.
I like it. Also, I'm happy for Pressly. He gets to go home to Texas and pitch for a really awesome team that's gonna be stoked to add him to their pen.
And Moya on his way to the Twins to take Pressly's spot on the 25-man.
Hey Seth, you ever think about taking pre-orders for the Twins Prospect Handbook? Something tells me that's going to be a hot item this offseason. Just a hunch.
Wow - Bold - I like it. Grabbing some nice prospects today. When the system overflows, the team will benefit, either through producing quality ML talent, or a surplus to get more ML talent.
Celestino was signed by Houston out of the DR in 2015 for 2.5 million.
One thing I really hope is that as guys are traded we see players get seasoning at the big league level that need it.This is wehre we need to give Gonsalves, Moya, Gordon, etc. the time to get their feet wet.
It'll give us something to be invested in.Along with (hopefully) positive progress from Buxton and Sano.