The Marlins are close to a deal to get the catcher Jacob Stallings From the Pirates, Ken Rosenthal reports from The Athletic (Twitter link). Teams carry out medical reviews of the players involved. Pittsburgh will get you right Zach Thompson In addition to the possibility of setting up the right hand Kyle Nicholas and an external possibility Conor Scott Once the trade officially ends, MLB Network’s John Heyman Reports. It was Miami Connected to Stallings early this morning.
The 31-year-old Stallings (32 next month) will bring the Marlins with three years remaining in control of the club and give The Fish an outstanding defensive player to pair with their burgeoning young team. While his offensive numbers don’t stand out—the Stallings have battled .251/.331/.374 with 17 homers, 32 doubles and triples in 780 board appearances dating back to 2019—Gold Glover 2021 is one of the best defensive players in the sport, regardless of position. .
Over the past three seasons, Stallings has racked up 42 defending points saved, including 21 DRS last season. He has an impressive steal rate of 36.2% from 2019-20 and has a career mark of 27%, although it’s worth noting that he slipped to 21% in this division last season. Baseball Bulletin, FanGraphs and Stallings all associate Statast as one above average, and the Subtraction Bulletin credits its ability to block pitches in dirt additionally.
Expecting MLBTR contributor Matt Schwartz to earn a salary of $2.6 million in 2022, Stallings are very affordable in terms of salary – and can be controlled by arbitration during the 2024 season. For a low-paid club that builds around what it hopes to emerge as a staff A dominant young business, Stallings is a very reasonable addition. Sandy AlcantaraAnd Trevor RogersAnd Sixto SanchezAnd Edward CabreraAnd Eliezer HernandezAnd Max Meyer Others are likely to benefit from his ingenuity in framing and game recall.
Considering Pittsburgh’s comeback, they’ll add an instant spinner (Thompson) as well as a pair of promising young arms. The 28-year-old Thompson proved to be a fantastic recovery in a minor league deal last winter after the White Sox allowed him to become a free agent.
A former fifth player, Thompson served the Marlins 75 runs of 3.24 ERA/3.69 FIP balls over 26 games, including 14 starts. His 21% stroke rate and 8.9% walk rate aren’t exactly mainstream numbers, but Thompson thrived in terms of poor connection generation; An average exit velocity of 87.6 mph is rated in the 76th percentile of MLB bombers, while his average of 33.9% hit the hardest in the 82nd percentile. The spin rate on his four sewing machine is also in the ratio Centennial 92nd.
Although Thompson wouldn’t mistake him for being a leading arm in the rotation, he would give the Bucs six years of club control and not be eligible to referee until at least the 2023-24 season. (In 121 days of duty in his first debut season, he’ll be in a Super Two status bubble, excluding fundamental changes to the arbitration system in collective bargaining negotiations.) As it stands now, Pittsburgh controls Thompson all the way through the 2027 season.
Nicholas, 22, was Miami’s second-round pick in the 2020 draft and ranked 23rd among their prospects in American baseball. Mid-season top 30 list. he fell Sixteenth at MLB.com and 18 among Miami farm workers in the Eric Longenhagen area Categories in FanGraphs. Ball State’s product has been shown at a combined 4.18 ERA through 99 rounds of Class-A Advanced and Double-A ball this season, which has increased potency in the more advanced levels of these two levels. Nicholas has made a 32% discount on his opponents this year, albeit with a somewhat inflated walking rate of 11.5%. Miami had developed it as a novice up to this point, but with a heater up to the upper ’90s and an overdrive slider, it’s possible he’ll eventually move on to the Bullpen.
Meanwhile, Scott was Miami’s first-round pick in 2018. While he was still in the middle tiers of the Miami system at both FanGraphs and MLB.com, Scott’s stock has fallen a bit since that lofty pick. (The lack of a minor league season in 2020 certainly didn’t help his development.) Scott spent the 2021 season in Class-A Advanced, where he scored a strong hitting streak of .276/.333/.446 with 10 eyebrows and 14 steals, and reports indicate that He’s capable of playing a quality center field and hitting near the top of the squad if all goes well. Scott recently turned 22, and with a very good showing in Class-A Advanced under his belt, he could secure a ticket to Double-A Altoona in 2022.
Pittsburgh doesn’t have an immediate heir to take over if Stallings is, but the lack of a direct successor at Pittsburgh served as little deterrent to jumping into what they certainly consider a solid show. The Buccaneers aren’t competing in 2022 anyway, and the free-agent market has a number of veteran options that can be plugged in as a stopgap while the team awaits the #1 public pick for 2021. Henry Davis To grow in the palace.
It’s a different story in Miami, where they’ve been looking for a hunter for the better part of last year. Miami has determinations to break out of the NL East vault and enter the playoff fray, and the move to both sharpen the team’s overall defense and help maximize team work is a powerful step in that regard. Stallings won’t do much to bolster a squad that was already lacking in strength, but it will draw plenty of walking and provide the kind of wise catch clubs often seek when building around youth courses.
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