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Brewers Acquire LHP Chase Wright from Yankees for catcher/outfielder Eric Fryer

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Oldcity ACL Brewers

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Not a big strikeout guy, but doesn't walk many either. This makes perfect sense considering the needs of each team. If they don't add another starter I'd expect Wright to get a chance to win the fifth spot in the rotation.
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Found it finally: http://web.minorleaguebas...d=t531&t=p_pbp&pid=451657

 

Interesting tidbit from there:

recorded a no-decision in his second start on 4/22 at Boston (3.0IP, 5H, 4ER, 3BB, 3K, 4HR)...in the third inning, surrendered four consecutive home runs to Manny Ramirez, J.D. Drew, Mike Lowell and Jason Varitek (who had a combined 4HR for the season entering the game) in a span of 10 pitches...became only the second pitcher in Major League history to allow four consecutive homers in an inning.

 

That was after he was called up from AA...

 

Yeah, I hope he gets a shot at the 5th starter spot .

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FFIW, the CHONE projection system has him at a 6.03 ERA for next season. They project him to have a bad K rate and a mediocre walk rate. He has a really low HR rate and BABIP in the minors last year and CHONE doesn't see that repeating in the majors. of course, you get what you pay for and I'll take any young arm when it costs next to nothing.
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Wright has never thrown as many as 146 innings in a season in his minor league career, so if we lean on him as a starter, he's going to be maxed out after 170 innings or so. He's a fringe back-end of the rotation guy without an above-average pitch. Meh. Fryer was buried behind Salome, Lucroy and Lawrie and it's better to have some more depth. Still, meh.

 

Edit: FWIW, I believe Wright has one option left.

@YouKnowAndThat | Almost, Tim Dell
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I guess I wouldnt get too excited about this pick up. Net Zero Effect.

 

He was at best the 21st best pitching prospect in the Yankees system. If he winds up being in this years Brewer rotation, things are much worse than what some of are assuming.

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It probably is a "meh" move, but at this point since the Brewers can't throw money at a problem, I say throw as many arms at a problem as possible. I'd like to see three more similar moves--maybe they find one cubic zurconia.
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I'd rather see this sort of thing than a Jorge Julio signing -- or some pitcher that we would be obligated to let to continue to suck because of their salary.
At $950K, I'm not sure the Brewers would feel compelled to let him keep sucking on the major league roster. I'm thinking they would DFA.
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Don't care for the Mendoza pick up. He has not pitched in a couple years and is 36 years old. He only threw 86mph for the Yankees in 2005. I don't see him making the roster at all.

 

As far as Wright goes, it is a good trade.

 

10-3 2.72 era in 22 starts last season in the Minors

13-5 3.85 era in 24 starts in 2007

He is a lefty and turns 26 in a few days

Very low hr/9 rate

WHIP of around 1.10

89mph fastball

 

He did give up the 4 consecutive homeruns to the Red Sox but he only had only 2 starts above A Ball before the 2 starts with the Yankees.

 

Very good pickup by the Brewers!

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I really wouldn't mind the rotation being Yo, Parra, Bush, Soup and Wright with McClung in the bullpen. I think that's where Seth is best suited.

While I agree with you, I prefer Seth in the pen, Wright would need to have a very impressive spring for the Brewers to consider that move. Also, Seth came up big at times as a starter last year and I think he should get a better shot at the #5 spot than Wright at this point.

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I was being sarcastic. Nothing more to say at this point; if we are that strapped for cash we should have used the money we gave Hoffman to sign a decent starter. This rotation is not nearly good enough to compete for a playoff spot with. There is going to be way too much pressure on Gallardo and Parra to stay healthy and pitch well.

 

Melvin really needs to do better than this to improve our starting pitching. I am sure we could trade Hart and get a decent pitcher in return. At this point if we have one or two starters get injured we will really be scouring the scrap heap for innings and that could get very ugly.

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