Within the uncommon prospect for prospect, pitcher for pitcher, and man already on the 40-man roster for man already on the 40-man roster swap, the Purple Sox are sending right-handed pitching Luis Perales down I-95 to Washington for left-handed pitching Jake Bennett. Jeff Passan, as regular, was first on the information.
It’s actually an uncommon commerce, and one which’s troublesome to completely make sense of with out being within both from workplace, however Chris Cotillo did handle to seize the next quote on Bennett from Craig Breslow.
As you possibly can in all probability surmise from that quote, Bennett is a giant boy, coming in a 6-6, 235 lbs. He was chosen within the second spherical of the 2022 MLB draft (forty fifth general), has a 2.67 ERA in 138.1 innings of minor league work (good), and is a bit outdated for by no means having pitched above Double-A as he turned 25 a fortnight in the past (not so good – Purchase hey, joyful belated birthday!).
Should you’re protecting monitor at residence, that’s three licensed moose that Breslow and the entrance workplace have acquired simply this month, with 6-6, 275 pound Johan Oviedo coming over within the commerce from Pittsburgh again on December 4th, and 6-5, 225 pound Ryan Watson coming over from the A’s on the again of the Rule 5 draft final week.
With Perales going again within the different path, the Purple Sox hand over a right-handed flame thrower with a excessive ceiling, and as you may think, that’s already made some folks very upset. However earlier than we dive too far down that rabbit gap, it’s price stating that now we have two guys right here with fairly important damage historical past. Each have already had Tommy John earlier than even making it to the majors, and Perales’ dimension is probably going an addition purple flag in some circles. In different phrases, it’s largely a matter of in case you like Perales’ youth and velocity higher, or Bennett’s dimension and command higher.
Director of scouting at Sox Prospects Ian Cundall broke issues down like this:
Lastly, it’s additionally price noting that Paul Toboni is the President of Baseball Operations for Washington, and Toboni after all is related right here as a result of he was the Senior Vice President and Assistant Normal Supervisor with the Sox till final September. So it’s doubtless that Toboni is aware of Perales properly, appreciated him greater than different folks within the Purple Sox group, and knew what guys within the Nationals system the remainder of the Purple Sox entrance workplace valued.
Who might be proper? Solely time will inform, however that is a kind of trades that would simply vary anyplace from a whole nothingburger to both facet successful it by a reasonably substantial margin. Let’s see what you guys suppose.
