The Rays have acquired infielder Ryan Schimpf from the Padres, per a club announcement. Minor-league infielder Deion Tansel is headed to San Diego in return.
Most immediately, the move opens a roster spot for the Padres to complete their just-announced deal with the Yankees. But San Diego is also somewhat overloaded with options at second and third, leaving the team without space to carry Schimpf on its 40-man roster.
It’s an interesting swap for the Rays, who have yet to make their intentions fully clear. The left-handed-hitting Schimpf could enter some kind of timeshare in the infield, replace the more expensive Brad Miller if he’s traded, or fill in if the club pursues larger trades.
Schimpf, 29, has just 527 MLB plate appearances in his career, but he has launched 34 home runs in that span. Of course, he has also racked up 175 strikeouts and overseen a .195 batting average, though that’s partially offset by a healthy 13.1% walk rate.
Meanwhile, the 23-year-old Tansel has yet to advance past the low-A level since being taken in the 32nd round of the 2016 draft. Last year, playing in the New York-Pennsylvania League, he slashed .277/.336/.403 over 211 plate appearances.
Maybe they will trade Longo.
To be replaced by Schmipf? No way that’ll happen.
Unlikely, but if they rebuild it could be a stop gap. They should rebuild before they lose players.
Patrick Leonard is ready to go at 3rd for the Rays.
A guy no longer in the organization?
One question…..why?
Depth move. He’ll mainly be bench power at most.
wow these winter meetings are captivating!
First Headley and Mitchell, now MVP Deion Tansel? The Padres are looking like World Series contenders now.
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I would’ve been happy to get a bag of balls for Schimpf.
Mostly I think this clears a spot on the 40 man roster.
Yeah, seriously. After he did so badly in AAA last year I figured he’d just be cut.
Schimpf is the poster boy for the 1 true outcome. HR, SO, BB. Only problem was it was mostly SO.
Maybe the Rays can trade for a Vowel too. Lord knows they can use one.
Impressive Preller got anything for Schimpf. He was a DFA candidate with the Headley trade and Rule V draft upcoming. Now we got a utility infielder with good plate discipline for him. Probably won’t amount to much, but at least its something
This guy’s game has Rays or A’s written all over it.
After last year’s performance, the writing was definitely on the wall for this guy. If not for this trade, he likely would be DFA’d.
I thought it was funny how they kept the pictures of him up on the streetlights around the stadium even after he had been sent back down to AAA.
You guys are way too hung up on batting average
Dudes has 2.1 war and an OPS over 800 for his career in basically 1 full seasons worth of time. Yet the offense starved padres cant keep trying to help him?
Premature to give up on the guy in my opinion.
The guy is 30. He had over twice as many strikeouts as hits. He made Alexi Amarista look like a Gold Glover. No we aren’t going to waste time on him when we have way better options in Spangenberg, Solarte, Asuaje, and now Headley.