San Diego and Miami couldn't wait to make the first big deal of the season. Who got the better of the shocking swap?
got trade season started early with a deal sending two-time batting champion Luis Arraez to San Diego for a group of prospects. Who got the better of the deal? .The Padres have lengthened their lineup and balanced it all at once by acquiring Arraez, the best bat-on-ball wizard to don a Padres uniform since Tony Gwynn.
San Diego's offense has been better than average so far and Arraez's skill set adds to their best traits of hitting for average and limiting whiffs. Indeed, his presence should move the Padres into the top 10 in these areas. You'd like to see a little more consistent pop behind him down through the order. Failing that, it would be good if Arraez were more dynamic on the basepaths, which is only one area in which the comparisons to Gwynn begin to fall apart.
The thing is, the Padres keep coming up short in the depth department, in part because they keep packaging prospects in this way and overspending to fill holes. Arraez has an arbitration-fueled $10.6 million price tab this season and has one more arbitration cycle ahead, presumably with another raise, before hitting free agency. It's a lot of prospect depth to swap for a short-term upgrade on a team that as much as anything needs to be more worried about the sub-stratas of its depth chart.
Still, even if the Marlins might have gained something by letting more of a market develop for Arraez, any difference in return would likely have been marginal.
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