Phelps to Phillies

[JDBrewCrew]

Ken Rosenthal

@Ken_Rosenthal

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Phillies getting David Phelps from Brewers, sources tell me and

@MattGelb

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[Greenleaf1]

Given he's relatively cheap next year and has been pretty great this year, I'm hoping they got something good for him.

[Eye Black]

Very interested to see this return.

[wibadgers23]

Interesting- definitely not a “buyer” type trade.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

Yeah, he's been very good. Given the control next year, the return should be something decent.

[JDBrewCrew]

Jon Heyman

@JonHeyman

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Phelps to Phillies. Brewers get 3 prospects back.

[Eye Black]

Return is reportedly 3 PTBNL.

 

Per Matt Gelb:

Phillies will trade multiple low-level pitchers to Milwaukee, all PTBNL. Could be two or three, according to sources.

 

Phelps is a Girardi favorite. He has a $4.5 MM club option for 2021.

[Greenleaf1]

Typical Stearns move, quantity over "quality". Worked pretty well with Freddy Peralta...

[walleye]

3 lottery tickets

[brewers888]

I think this is a pure salary dump. Would rather have just paid him 4.5 million next season.

[wildcat2237]

Return is reportedly 3 PTBNL.

 

Per Matt Gelb:

Phillies will trade multiple low-level pitchers to Milwaukee, all PTBNL. Could be two or three, according to sources.

 

Phelps is a Girardi favorite. He has a $4.5 MM club option for 2021.

 

I would take 3 young lottery tickets ala the Adam Lind trade.

[brewerfan82]

What are the parameters of making a trade this year? They have to be on the 60-man roster, correct? Would making the players PTBNL affect that at all?

[DrugBust]

I think this is a pure salary dump. Would rather have just paid him 4.5 million next season.

 

Buyout was only 250k next season I believe.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

I think this is a pure salary dump. Would rather have just paid him 4.5 million next season.

 

Likely. Can be said that you can never have enough quality relievers, but with the ascension of Devin Williams, and Rasmussen looking like a keeper, they can now allocate that $4.5 million elsewhere. Not a huge fan of giving up a good pitcher for lottery tickets, but ehh, whatever I guess.

[BruisedCrew]

A pretty good indication of how Stearns evaluates the chances of this team accomplishing anything this year.

[Greenleaf1]

What are the parameters of making a trade this year? They have to be on the 60-man roster, correct? Would making the players PTBNL affect that at all?

 

Everyone is tradeable because they have 6 months to sort out the "named later" part. So I'm guessing they already decided on names, but the names won't be official until after the season is over.

[walleye]

According to MLB it could be two or 3 players depending on who the brewers select from the list provided by the Phillies

[Eye Black]

Here is the Phillies farm system via FanGraphs, let the speculation begin regarding the 3 PTBNL pitchers:

 

Top 39 Prospects: Philadelphia Phillies

 

There is an "other prospects of note" section at the bottom of the article that includes "Young Pitching Projects".

[narwhalattack]

3 low-level pitchers. If any of them is within the Phillies' top 30, I wonder if one of them is Mick Abel. It also wouldn't surprise me if these guys are guys we've never even heard of before.

[PinaMadness]

Return is reportedly 3 PTBNL.

 

Per Matt Gelb:

Phillies will trade multiple low-level pitchers to Milwaukee, all PTBNL. Could be two or three, according to sources.

 

Phelps is a Girardi favorite. He has a $4.5 MM club option for 2021.

So a proven set up man for three or four pitchers who will amount to nothing.

 

I hate this quantity over quality crap. Stearns could've got a hundred low level pitchers in the trade, but 100 x 0 is still zero.

[patrickgpe]

Here is the Phillies farm system via FanGraphs, let the speculation begin regarding the 3 PTBNL pitchers:

 

Top 39 Prospects: Philadelphia Phillies

this is the Adam Lind trade all over again,

[PDCBalla]

Freddy Petalta was a similar return for Adam Lind.

[Greenleaf1]

Return is reportedly 3 PTBNL.

 

Per Matt Gelb:

Phillies will trade multiple low-level pitchers to Milwaukee, all PTBNL. Could be two or three, according to sources.

 

Phelps is a Girardi favorite. He has a $4.5 MM club option for 2021.

So a proven set up man for three or four pitchers who will amount to nothing.

 

I hate this quantity over quality crap. Stearns could've got a hundred low level pitchers in the trade, but 100 x 0 is still zero.

 

It's insane to me that you'd write off this trade when the last one of these we made got us Freddy Peralta. Clearly, percentage chance of any of these guys hitting is not 0.

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

Figured Phelps would be going. Can't really analyze without names, but I'll say this:

 

I was hoping for a position player.

[Manty Brewer Fan]

From what I can tell Francisco Morales is not on their 60-man roster, can anyone else confirm? That'd be an amazing return.