Twins Trade Garcia To Yankees For Two Pitching Prospects
Jul 30 2017 07:17 AM |
Seth Stohs
in Minnesota Twins
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Garcia made just one start for the Twins. On Friday night, he gave up three runs in 6.2 innings to earn a win, the one game the Twins have won since they acquired him.
Depending on the site, Littell was ranked around #20 in Yankees prospect lists. The right-hander has a four-pitch mix with a fastball in the low 90s.
This season between High-A Tampa and AA Trenton, he is 14-1 with a 1.87 ERA. He's been even better in AA, posting 10.6 strikeouts per nine innings compared to just 7.2 per nine in High-A.
26-year-old Deitrich Enns is on the Yankees 40-man roster. With AAA Sranton-Wilkes Barre, he has a 2.29 ERA and 37 strikeouts in 39.1 innings in seven starts this year.
Enns will report to Rochester. Littell will head to Chattanooga.
And so it begins...
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Littell, plus Enns, plus that minor league catcher for YNOA and $4+ million looks to me to be an excellent net result.
Good recovery after making the mistake for trading for Garcia.
The Twins need to selling any short term asset.
For those in the know….are Littell and Enns better than Ynoa?If so, how much?
Seems like a good overall sequence of transactions.
http://www.newsday.c...2017-1.13549624
I have done a detailled and thorough analysis of these transactions and have come to the following conclusion:
We gonna have to wait and see how it turns out
Lets do this every year heck lets do this every week.We still haven't traded anyone off the Twins roster and yet have improved or at least seem to have. Even if neither of these guys ever amount to half the major league player Garcia was this was a great move.
I do like to look at pretty minor league stats over ugly ones even for players that never make it so in that sense we already won the meaningless element of the trade.
He signed for 100K so that really isn't the case here.
Littell has a very nice curveball in his repertoire:
According to multiple sources, Enns' best pitch is his changeup. Has a four-pitch mix.
Chattanooga rotation looking pretty formidable now
Gonsalves/Jorge/Romero/Littel/Stewart
Then it's an outstanding trade, no matter how the prospects turn out.
Lets move one of those guys up to AAA.
Probably not. Enns is 26 and has done good but not great yet. Littell is doing great in AA at 21. Enns could be better than most of the #4/5 pitchers that the Twins have cycled through this year though and I expect to see him up within the next month.
Litell looks like Tyler Duffey with a change up.
If this is true Falvine just got a lifetime deal from me.
Yeah some of the guys on the Yankee's site thought Enns would have been a better choice for 5th starter than the guys the Yankee's were throwing out there so he has potential. From what I can tell on Yankee site the Yankee's were going to have a tough time protecting all the guys they have so seemed to be willing to sweeten the pot. This looks like a pretty good trade for MN. Lets hope these guys don't turn into pumpkins like Murphy did.
Gotta consider the Braves got out from under $4M or so from Garcia's contract as well.
This seems like an extraordinary deal. Especially considering what the Twins gave up. Huascar Ynoa has upside but he is looking like a longshot right now.
I feel like I should temper my expectations a little though. Littell's numbers suggest that he should be better than a 20-ish prospect but perhaps that is due to the strength of the Yankees system. And it is possible that Enns becomes the better of the two.
The best reason to like this trade is that Enns is an option this year and Littell could be up sometime next year. The Twins just acquired two legit prospects that likely get rotation tryouts at some point. This is brilliant.
And here is what made that happen. The Twins are picking up the cash in the deal and getting better prospects in the end. Who would have thought that was possible?