YU DARVISH TRADE FREE
(Bauer is now a free agent.) In three seasons with the Cubs, Darvish has compiled a 3.60 ERA (121 ERA+) with a 4.08 strikeout-to-walk ratio. Darvish's performance was such that it earned him a second-place finish in National League Cy Young Award voting, behind then-Cincinnati Reds righty Trevor Bauer.
The Darvish trade comes not long after the Padres, coming off a playoff season in 2020, swung a deal with the Rays for left-hander Blake Snell and reportedly came to terms with Korean infielder Ha-Seong Kim.ĭarvish, 34, is coming off a season in which he posted the best ERA+ (221) and strikeout-to-walk ratio (6.64) of his career, albeit in only 12 starts. The Padres will also get catcher Victor Caratini in the trade. The Cubs will receive veteran right-hander Zach Davies and a package of four prospects in a deal that was reportedly agreed to Monday night. Time will tell if Darvish once again finds his mojo, or if dumping Darvish when the Cubs did was a blessing in disguise.The San Diego Padres have made another offseason splash, as they're set to acquire ace right-hander Yu Darvish from the Cubs as part of a seven-player trade, the team announced Tuesday night. Sometimes, you need to secure whatever return you can get knowing how expensive of a contract Darvish would have if he had gone back to his down years with the Cubs. “Better safe than sorry” seemed to be the motive behind this trade. The Cubs front office knew they wanted to dismantle the team and therefore got rid of Darvish without risk of him getting injured and losing all of his value. However, anything can happen in baseball. In my opinion, I feel the Cubs would have gotten more at the trade deadline from contending teams looking to add a huge piece to their rotation for a postseason push. On the other hand, as Darvish was starting his recent slump right before the deadline, could the return haul the Cubs actually received before the season be better than what they would have gotten for a scuffling hurler at the deadline while being paid $21 million a season? Keep in mind Darvish’s value as Cy Young runner-up over the offseason at the time. Could he have returned a team’s top100 prospect? More than likely. before the season, as Darvish’s ERA was 3.48 as the deadline approached and several teams would have been in on him considering the several years of service left on his contract, not reaching free agency until 2024. It would have been interesting to see the haul they would have gotten at the deadline vs.
Hindsight is always 20/20, but had the Cubs not dumped Darvish earlier, they clearly would have anyway at the trade deadline. The other three in Caissie, Preciado and Santana are all in Rookie Ball and are at least two to three years away from big league action, but it is good to see that all three actually have promise moving forward. Surprisingly enough, all of which except for Mena, are currently still in the top 30 Cubs prospects list according to MLB.com. Looking at the rest of the return for Yu Darvish, the Cubs received four far-off prospects that seemed like a terrible deal for an ace in Owen Caissie, Reginald Preciado, Yeison Santana and Ismael Mena.
Though this season is at the point that is doesn’t much matter, the Cubs can at least reset next season and show Davies the door if they so choose. In return for Darvish, our main piece in the return was Zach Davies who has been rather dreadful lately, allowing 18 earned runs in his last 12 frames of work. Darvish’s recent run would remind Cubs fans of his 2019 start to the campaign, where he seemed extremely overpaid and mightily underperformed. Most recently, Darvish gave up five earned on 2 2/3 innings of work before being pulled and is now currently day-to-day with what is being called back tightness. In the right-hander’s last seven starts, he has allowed 28 earned runs over 35 1/3 innings. In hindsight, the Darvish deal was most definitely a salary dump, marking the real first domino to fall without anybody fully understanding just how complete a dismantling would come months later.īut maybe, just maybe, the Cubs made the right call with Darvish.
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