Breaking: Padres acquiring Giants SP Robbie Ray
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What breaking trade did the Padres announce at the deadline?
All right, what is going on, everybody? It is deadline day, one of the best days on the baseball calendar, and we've been waiting. We have been waiting for A.J. Preller to strike. I've seen the tweets, and this happens every year. What's A.J. doing? A.J., are you okay? All that sort of stuff. Well, he has made a move, and it is acquiring Robbie Ray from the San Francisco Giants. His sixth team in his career stays in the National League West. It seems like a lot of in-division trades have been happening, and I'm pumped for this one. I have not looked at Robbie Roy's contract, but what I care about, because it's not my money, whatever they pay him, whatever it is, whatever they pay him. But what I like is the innings.
This Padres team needs innings from their starting pitching. I just don't think that they were going to be able to survive the rest of the season just throwing together bullpen games and you know maybe they survive but are these relievers going to be pitching at the top of their game are you going to be having Griffin Canning consistently be pitching out of the bullpen and go a couple innings and he gives up runs and that still costs you the game. Like you can get through the game, but can you really get through the game in the way that you want to? But with Robbie Ray here, what I see recently, because if you want to look the whole season, you may not be as impressed. You may see some five innings and four and two thirds and four inning outings, right?
But what I care about is recently. That's what matters. And what are we, August 3rd right now? So the last month of the season so far, this is his month of July. I'll take you through it. Six innings, three earned runs at Colorado. At Coors Field, he gave up three earned runs. That's not the end of the world. His next outing, five innings, one earned run. Then there was a four-inning outing. But then his last two, six shutout innings, and then six innings, one earned run. The two outings before the start of July, so his last two outings in June, eight innings, no earned runs, eight innings, no earned runs. The outing before that, six and a third, no earned runs. So you want to talk about a guy that can give innings for this Padres team and quality innings and not allow a ton of runs, that's Robbie Ray.
And the Padres, he's a free agent at the end of the season. He's age 34 season. It's $25 million, $23 million, excuse me, on the luxury tax. So if you want to prorate that, I'm not great at math, but it's probably what, like $10 million, something like that. So that makes me curious on, all right, what is the next move now for the Padres? Are they going to go acquire a very cheap outfielder or will new ownership relay to John Sider, hey, Let A.J. go do whatever he wants. Let him go get whatever outfielder he wants. And, you know, you do it that way. As guys were coming off the board, whether that be Freddie Peralta to the Rays or Kevin Gosman to the Cubs, you're just not worried, but you're just like, all right, where is A.J.
going to go here? What move is he going to make? And the Giants, I think, were the great fit, even if they were in the division. great fit because their season's over. They know they're not going anywhere. And I don't know what the return is. I have not seen what the return is yet. But the indivision thing just doesn't matter with the Giants because they're not in it. And Robbie Ray's a free agent at the end of the season. So it's not like he's going to go hurt the Giants, you know, for three more years. Right. But it's good. It's a good sign. So John Schaefer here tweeting, Ray still owed about $8 million this year unless it's paid down by San Francisco in return. So yeah, the good thing there is the Padres, they're willing to spend more money than I thought they were going to.
I thought this was going to be, they could go get Reed Detmer still, but someone like that where I think it was a $4 million contract that he's on,
Why do Padres fans value Robbie Ray's recent performance and innings?
So you prorate that, and that's even less. That's like less than $2 million.
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