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Diamondbacks To Acquire Jake Diekman

By Steve Adams and Connor Byrne | July 31, 2018 at 2:44pm CDT

2:44pm: The trade is in place, tweets Fancred’s Jon Heyman.

2:36pm: The D-backs are making a push to acquire left-handed reliever Jake Diekman from the Rangers, reports ESPN’s Jerry Crasnick (via Twitter). A deal between the two sides is close, he adds.

With the Rangers out of contention and Diekman set to hit free agency at the end of the season, he was among their most obvious trade candidates. The 31-year-old, who has generally been a quality reliever since debuting in 2012 with the Phillies, has pitched to a 3.69 ERA/3.36 FIP with 11.08 K/9, 5.31 BB/9 and a 44.9 percent groundball rate this season. Diekman has also generated infield pop-ups at a 12.1 percent rate, which places him above the league average (10.9 percent) for relievers. There are red flags, however, including his aforementioned walk rate and sudden inability to retire same-handed hitters. Lefties have hit .273/.429/.364 this year against Diekman, who has typically fared well against them.

For the Diamondbacks, Diekman represents their second proven bullpen acquisition of deadline day (and he’s only owed the balance of a $2.7125MM salary). The D-backs previously made a trade with the Marlins to reunite with righty Brad Ziegler, who had been in Arizona from 2012-16. Clearly, the bullpen was a concern for general manager Matt Hazen, who has seen the D-backs’ relief unit put up a 24th-place ranking in fWAR despite posting the majors’ second-best ERA (3.07) so far this season. Hazen & Co. will hope these moves help the team retain a playoff spot, as it currently holds a wild-card position and trails the NL-West leading Dodgers by just half a game.

To acquire Diekman, the Diamondbacks gave up 24-year-old right-hander Wei-Chieh Huang, Robert Murray of The Athletic tweets. Huang, a native of Taiwan whom Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo of MLB.com ranked as the Diamondbacks’ 22nd-best prospect, has worked to a sterling 2.00 ERA/2.78 FIP with 10.67 K/9 and 2.33 BB/9 in 27 innings (10 games, two starts) since receiving a promotion to Double-A earlier this season. Callis and Mayo laud Huang’s mid-90s fastball and offspeed mix (changeup, curve) in their free scouting report.

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12 Comments

  1. hurricanewar23

    7 years ago

    Please don’t let it be player to be named later. I want to know to who we got lol

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    • oz10

      7 years ago

      This has been frustrating. It is like your birthday when somebody tells you they got you something but Amazon didn’t deliver it yet so you will get it in a couple of days or maybe a week, if ever at all.

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      • Daniel Youngblood

        7 years ago

        I get the frustration, but it gives us something new to look forward to now. And we know we have three more prospects coming. Hopefully they’ll be as promising as last year’s PTBNL, who’s now the No. 18 prospect in the Rangers’ system.

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        • oz10

          7 years ago

          Been fun to be on this side of the trades again though. Sucks losing but I think Daniels has done a good job these past two years. Even the Fire Jon Daniels guy on here hasn’t had anything to say! lol

          Reply
  2. Leody Taveras

    7 years ago

    Another PTBNL. New market inefficiency lol

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  3. RedKing22

    7 years ago

    Thank God we’re loading up this year. Really happy so far.

    Reply
  4. AidanVega123

    7 years ago

    Good luck Diek

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  5. BrandonBrave91

    7 years ago

    Damnit braves. Should’ve got jake

    Reply
  6. Jockstrapper

    7 years ago

    Nice grab!

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  7. ericm25

    7 years ago

    and the phillies couldn’t do better??

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  8. tedwilliamzfrozenhead

    7 years ago

    This guy sucks.

    Reply
    • fatcat1

      7 years ago

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