The Brewers announced that they’ve acquired catcher Manny Pina from the Tigers as the player to be named later in last month’s Francisco Rodriguez trade. Milwaukee also picked up minor league infielder Javier Betancourt in the deal.
Pina, 28, received a pair of brief call-ups with the Royals back in 2011-12 but hasn’t appeared in the Majors since. He enjoyed a productive 2015 campaign with Triple-A Toledo, where he batted .305/.379/.461 with seven homers, and on the defensive side of the coin, he also caught 46 percent of attempted base-stealers. Pina has caught 37 percent of attempted runners over the life of his minor league career, and he’s a .264/.343/.395 hitter in 232 games at Triple-A. Pina will give the Brewers additional depth in the event of a trade or further injuries to Jonathan Lucroy.
Unimpressive return.
What an awful “value” deal for the crew. Stearns has been making the right moves, but in all 3 of his Major League deals (Rodriguez, Sardiñas,
The Brewers got out from K-Rod’s contract (saving $9.5MM) and were able to get a young 2B prospect and a decent back up catcher who can fill in once they trade Lucroy. Can’t expect much more unless they were willing to pay some of his remaining salary.
They got out from a bad contract and got a fringe prospect and organizational depth at a hard position to fill. I don’t know what else you could have expected.