The San Diego Padres have made another offseason sprinkle, as they’re set to obtain pro right-hander Yu Darvish from the Cubs as a feature of a seven-player exchange, MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand reports. Jon Heyman adds that the arrangement is consented to forthcoming the standard survey of clinical records of the players in question and ought to before long be finished.
CBS Sports’ R.J. Anderson was first to report that the different sides were close, and, as indicated by Feinsand, the Cubs will get veteran right-hander Zach Davies and a bundle of four possibilities in an arrangement that was consented to Monday night. The Padres will likewise get catcher Victor Caratini in the exchange.
The Darvish trade comes not long after the Padres, falling off a season finisher season in 2020, swung an arrangement with the Rays for left-hander Blake Snell and allegedly grappled with Korean infielder Ha-Seong Kim.
Darvish, 34, is falling off a season in which he posted the best ERA+ (221) and strikeout-to-walk proportion (6.64) of his profession, though in just 12 beginnings. Darvish’s exhibition was with the end goal that it acquired him a runner up completion in National League Cy Young Award casting a ballot, behind then-Cincinnati Reds righty Trevor Bauer. (Bauer is presently a free specialist.) In three seasons with the Cubs, Darvish has ordered a 3.60 ERA (121 ERA+) with a 4.08 strikeout-to-walk proportion. Darvish has three years and $59 million leftover on his agreement.
The 27-year-old Caratini filled in as Darvish’s own catcher in 2020 and for quite a bit of 2019. He’s a switch-hitter who’s batted .250/.327/.372 across parts of four significant alliance seasons.
At this moment, the Padres’ 2021 pivot incorporates Darvish, Snell, Dinelson Lamet, and Chris Paddack. Also, top possibility MacKenzie Gore isn’t a long way from the most significant level, and Mike Clevinger will return in 2022 after he recuperates from Tommy John medical procedure.
With respect to the Cubs’ side of things, Davies, who turns 28 in February, will give the Cubs some woefully required pivot help. The right-hander claims a lifelong ERA+ of 114 and a K/BB proportion of 2.50 in 123 profession begins. He’s in line to be qualified with the expectation of complimentary organization following the impending season.
The possibilities the Cubs get back are shortstop Reginald Preciado, outfielder Owen Caissie, outfielder Ismael Mena, and shortstop Yeison Santana. Preciado, 17, is a switch-hitting potential five-apparatus infielder whose $1.3 million marking reward set a precedent for a possibility out of Panama. From the Cubs’ stance, Preciado has all the earmarks of being the most encouraging expansion.
Caissie, 18, was every second-balance pick of Canada, and he flaunts projectable force and enough arm for right field. Mena, 18, has a strong hostile toolbox, amazing rate, and promising reach in the outfield. He’s additionally got the possibility to grow more force from the left side. Santana, 20, has set up solid numbers across two lower levels. He has the arm to stick on the left half of the infield and great bat-to-ball abilities with the guarantee of more force once he rounds out.