The Yankees announced that they’ve acquired minor league right-hander Matt Frawley from the Pirates to complete the April 17 trade that sent right-hander Johnny Barbato to Pittsburgh in exchange for a player to be named later. Frawley, 21, will be assigned to the Yankees’ Class-A affiliate in Charleston.
Frawley was Pittsburgh’s 17th-round selection in last year’s draft and has gotten off to a fine start in his pro career. After posting a 4.18 ERA though 28 innings with Pittsburgh’s short-season Class-A affiliate in 2016, he’s tossed 33 1/3 innings of 1.62 ERA ball with 8.6 K/9 against 1.1 BB/9 in with Class-A West Virginia in the South Atlantic League thus far in 2017. The Purdue product isn’t especially young for that level, however, so it’ll be more telling to see how he performs against higher levels of competition. Baseball Amercia wrote at the time of the draft that he sits in the low 90s with his fastball and has a fringy curveball as well.
The 24-year-old Barbato has logged 22 1/3 innings with the Pirates this year, resulting in an uninspiring 4.84 ERA with 6.9 K/9, 5.2 BB/9 and a 35.2 percent ground-ball rate. Barbato has averaged better than 94 mph on his fastball and does come with a strong Triple-A track record, though, so the Pirates have plenty of time to turn him around into a more serviceable member of the big league bullpen.
Rest of MLB, are you even trying?
Thanks Shawn Kelley. Yankees traded Shawn Kelley for Johnny Barbato in a 1 for 1 swap, then they flipped barbato for this guy in another 1 for 1 swap. Kelley is an effective RP BUT at the time he was expiring about to play on his last year of Arbitration. Barbatos is 24 and under control through 2022 and Frawley is 21 years old. 1.62 ERA in 33 IP at Low-A with 32/4 K/BB? I don’t care if Frawley never Makes the team. Cashman did well here.
Very well…. Thinking ahead. 9/1 ratio of SO/BB is impressive. I don’t know why the Pirates were so interested in Johnny Barbato.
it’s the pirates….they love their yankees…
21 years old in Low A? Probably buying all the kids he plays in the league their beers. That one year they could have had Kelley for, would’ve provided more value than Frawley will ever contribute in majors. This is like trying to spin the Justin Wilson trade as something amazing. Wilson is closing games now and Cessa and Green are garbage starters.
Why does it take so long for players to be named later? Have teams not decided yet?
They get a list who they can take and then they monitor them
Also, I’m not sure if it was changed yet but when trea turner was traded to the nats he wasn’t supposed to be yet bc he was just drafted and they had to wait a year until the draft happened again
Yeah, they changed it so that a player can be traded as soon as the end of the season he got drafted in
I would guess the Pirates might say –
“Here’s a list of 4 players we’re willing to trade to you for Barbato”
Yankees say … ” OK – but we’d like 2 months to decide; we’d like to see these 4 in action before we select one”
Pirates say – “OK – but you have to choose by this specific date”.
Maybe ?
Usually its something along those lines but it can also depend on how Barbato (or any traded player for a PTBNL) is used with their new team. As in, if Barbato makes a certain number of appearances in the bigs, or stays within the new organization for a certain period of time instead of being claimed off waivers, released, etc. then the list of prospects as the PTBNL can change too.