Padres Talking To White Sox About Starting Pitcher Garrett Crochet, Should The Brewers Get Involved?

[Brock Beauchamp]

Robert Murray of FanSided wrote a trade rumor roundup this morning and mentioned that the Padres' AJ Preller - one of the most aggressive general managers in baseball - was talking to the White Sox about left-handed starting pitcher Garrett Crochet. Murray then went on to make the argument that the Brewers would be an excellent fit for the 24-year-old starter.

Crochet's price would be incredibly high. He won't be arbitration-eligible until after this season and is currently pitching to a 116 ERA+ with 12 strikeouts per nine innings. While the Southsiders don't need to trade Crochet, their major league team is the worst in baseball and their farm system is barren, ranked 20th by MLB.com before the 2024 season.

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[sveumrules]

Doesn’t look like Murray mentioned that Crochet’s current 69.2 IP represent a career high.

His highest IP total before this was 65.0 as a junior at Tennessee in 2019.

I’d let another team pay a steep prospect price to try and figure out how to get him to the postseason this year without blowing out his arm for the rest of his team control years.

[nate82]

No, it would take too many good prospects and I don't want to get in a bidding war with the Padres who will just dump all of their prospects and won't care about it. 

I am also not sure Crochet will even make it to the end of the season as a starter.  He could have a serious arm or shoulder issue if he stays on the pace he is at.

[wallus]

No, he would hit an innings limit and we would have to give up too much to get him.

[wiguy94]

I'd rather Fedde than Crochet, but even if I wanted Crochet, the Padres being in on him would be the end of that. Padres are not prospect huggers and I don't want to beat them in a trade offer.

[Scooterfletcher]

Crochet is an interesting case rarely seen with the innings issue.  Quantity deal like E Brown, Dunn, Wiemer Henderson and comp pick maybe isn’t something they sneeze at.

[TURBO]

8 hours ago, Scooterfletcher said:

Crochet is an interesting case rarely seen with the innings issue.  Quantity deal like E Brown, Dunn, Wiemer Henderson and comp pick maybe isn’t something they sneeze at.

I simply do not want to deal Henderson.  Just don't want to do it.  They can have the others.

[Playing Catch]

Did Fedde reinvent himself in Korea? If so, perhaps I've been discounting his ability. He's not "cheap," making $7.5M this year and next. Perhaps that impacts what the Sox could get for him?

Crochet makes me really nervous.  I feel better about the Marlins guys.

[Brian]

1 hour ago, TURBO said:

I simply do not want to deal Henderson.  Just don't want to do it.  They can have the others.

I agree also Henderson seems to be developing/improving steadily, to much upside with Henderson.