Royals Acquire Cahill, Maurer, Buchter From Padres

[Ennder]

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2017/07/royals-to-acquire-cahill-maurer-buchter-from-padres-for-strahm-wood-ruiz.html

 

The Royals have announced an interesting trade with the Padres involving a whole host of pitchers, as Robert Murray of Fan Rag has first reported on Twitter. Kansas City will add starter Trevor Cahill, righty reliever Brandon Maurer, and southpaw Ryan Buchter. In exchange, the Pads will pick up southpaws Matt Strahm and Travis Wood along with prospect Esteury Ruiz.

 

Makes sense. The Royals are going to lose most of their core this off season.

[Brewcrewin07]

Must be nice, even teams lower in the standings then the Brewers are trying to make a push(regardless of their circumstances). Yet here sits DS...*crickets*

[Ennder]

If the Brewers were losing their core this off season and had next to nothing in the minors I'm sure Stearns would make a move too. It just makes very little sense giving our teams situation.

[liveforoctober]

Must be nice, even teams lower in the standings then the Brewers are trying to make a push(regardless of their circumstances). Yet here sits DS...*crickets*

 

Here come the Ted Thompson haters again...

[Jenkins5]

Must be nice, even teams lower in the standings then the Brewers are trying to make a push(regardless of their circumstances). Yet here sits DS...*crickets*

 

DS running this team right! Love it! Of course overreacting arm chair GMs who think this team is on or are a trade or two away from being on par with Nationals, Dodgers, & Cubs will be upset with him.

 

This team is a developing with no real core yet. Come next year we will be more defined hopefully & in real buyer position.

[MillerParkSouth]

Must be nice, even teams lower in the standings then the Brewers are trying to make a push(regardless of their circumstances). Yet here sits DS...*crickets*

lol. context kind of matters in this situation.

[JosephC]

Great trade for the Padres. Cahill isn't a real difference-maker and is only controlled for 0.5 seasons. Maurer has over 300 MLB innings and really hasn't shown that much yet (4.96 ERA). Maurer is a nightmare for the metrics, because the peripherals show he should be much better than he is (career 3.82 FIP), but he has enough inning now where the amount of runs trumps the peripherals and the stat sheets shows that he's been responsible for too many runs. Buchter is interesting but he's a fly ball pitcher that walks more batters than he should. He might be something but he's already 30 years old. So I really don't think the Padres gave up that much. At first look I thought the worst aspect of this trade from the Padres' perspective is that they would have to eat the rest of Travis Wood's contract (still owed roughly 9.16 million including 2019 buyout), but it sounds like Kansas City is picking up nearly all that money. Wood has been awful this year (6.91 ERA, 1.82 WHIP) but was good last year (2.95 ERA, 1.13 WHIP) and is a decent enough candidate for a bounce-back year in 2018 (especially if someone else is picking up the tab). Strahm is a former 21st round pick that hasn't gotten much respect but he quickly went through the minors (3.29 ERA, 1.17 WHIP, 10.9 K/9 in only 2 years), was great in KC last year (1.23 ERA, 1.09 WHIP, 12.3 K/9 in a small sample size) but struggled this year and is currently on the 60 day DL with a patellar tendon injury. Given his history prior to this season he looks like a promising player. Ruiz is a very high-ceiling lottery ticket. Again, under the radar because he was an international signing that signed for "only" $100,000, he got a helium watch mention from Baseball America last year and is tearing it up in the Arizona League this year as an 18 year old (1.219 OPS). Just love what Padres did here. Ruiz is so far away that he could easily crap out and Strahm might end up as a long reliever, but San Diego gave up so little it seems like the best thing to do was gamble on upside and they got a couple pretty good looking players. And as terrible as he's been this year, it wouldn't be shocking to see Wood rebound next year and while he isn't good enough to bring a big bounty, they might be able to flip him for another decent prospect in 2018.

[BlazingGunz]

This might not have been a bad haul for the Brewers to make either..2 bullpen arms with upside, and a rental starter...for not much. The Brewers equivalent would have been something like:

 

Wily Peralta

Jorge Lopez

Yeisen Coca

[MrTPlush]

Must be nice, even teams lower in the standings then the Brewers are trying to make a push(regardless of their circumstances). Yet here sits DS...*crickets*

 

DS running this team right! Love it! Of course overreacting arm chair GMs who think this team is on or are a trade or two away from being on par with Nationals, Dodgers, & Cubs will be upset with him.

 

This team is a developing with no real core yet. Come next year we will be more defined hopefully & in real buyer position.

 

The fact David Stearns may not do something isn't what is so annoying about this guys post(s). It is the fact he is freaking out and there is still a week to go. Can't wait for Packers training camp to start...so he will leave.

 

When is it acceptable to just ban him because no one likes him and his comments just stir a big negative pot ruining threads. All he does is create battles between posters and cause threads to spiral into the wrong direction. I like different viewpoints on here, but not like this.

[tmwiese55]

AL is also really weak after Houston. NL you're facing two monsters in WAS and LAD come playoff time, big difference. That said, this type of deal would have been something up our alley imo if we hadn't pooped the bed since the ASB since it's relatively low cost of prospects.

[jerichoholicninja]

This seems like a "we'll give you our crap, if you give us you're crap" trade.

[Ennder]

I think people are way underrating Cahill here. It will not surprise me if he is better than Quintana the rest of the season.

[djoctagone]

This seems like a "we'll give you our crap, if you give us you're crap" trade.

getting players and having to hear an insult from the other team? i'd take that deal any day!

[OnaBadger58]

If the Brewers were losing their core this off season and had next to nothing in the minors I'm sure Stearns would make a move too. It just makes very little sense giving our teams situation.

Yep. Comparing apples to oranges.

 

I think people are way underrating Cahill here. It will not surprise me if he is better than Quintana the rest of the season.

That's a bold prediction. Cahill's numbers are solid, but I keep expecting him to remember he's Trevor Cahill. He has a .72 ERA at "home" which is no longer his home. Only time will tell.