3:46pm: Boston has announced the deal.
3:27pm: The agreement is now in place, Rosenthal adds on Twitter.
12:55pm: Evan Drellich of NBC Sports Boston reports (via Twitter) that the Red Sox will send minor league infielder Esteban Quiroz to San Diego in exchange for Brewer.
Quiroz, 27 in February, has spent the bulk of his career playing for los Tigres de Quintana Roo in the Mexican League but signed with the Red Sox in 2017 for his first season of affiliated ball. He hit .299/.413/.598 with seven homers in 104 plate appearances against younger competition in Double-A last year. He also made a strong impression in the Arizona Fall League, hitting .267/.452/.511 with a pair of homers, three doubles and a triple in 62 PAs. He’s played second base, shortstop and third base extensively in his career in Mexico, but the Red Sox deployed him solely as a second baseman.
12:29pm: The Red Sox are nearing an agreement to acquire right-hander Colten Brewer from the Padres, tweets Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic. A minor leaguer who doesn’t need to be added to the Padres’ 40-man roster to be protected before today’s Rule 5 deadline will go back in return.
It’s a minor swap designed to give the Padres some roster flexibility before 8pm ET tonight — the deadline for teams to protect players from selection in next month’s Rule 5 Draft. Brewer, a fourth-round pick of the Pirates in 2011, has just 9 2/3 innings of big league experience, all of which came with the Padres in 2018. He was tagged for six earned runs on 15 hits and seven walks with 10 strikeouts in that time, but he was much better in Triple-A El Paso. Despite the hitter-friendly nature of his home environment in Triple-A, Brewer posted a 3.75 ERA with more impressive marks of 11.8 K/9 against 2.8 BB/9 with a 55.8 percent grounder rate in 48 innings of relief.
Brewer only recently turned 26 and has two minor league option years remaining, so he’ll give the Red Sox some bullpen depth that can be shuttled back and forth between Boston and Pawtucket next season. For the Padres, the swap will open a spot on what’s currently a full 40-man roster. It’s one of multiple trades they could make today, as Rosenthal also noted that right-hander Rowan Wick could be on the move soon (in a separate deal).
Replacement for Kimbrell? Lol
Replacement for Kimbrel AND Kelly
Replacement for Kimbrel and Kelly and Eovaldi? This would be the Mets’ solution. Thankfully DD will trade away his younger grandkids for another WS next season.
Sounds good to me. I could die any day, more WS now.
I would sell the rights to my future grandkids for a World Series.
If you read the article, that is not what it says!
That’s the joke.
Simpson’s. That’s the joke. Gif
Just a trade by a team with room on the 40 man roster. Probably didn’t give up much. Interesting stats.
Keep it up Preller. Need to move about 5 more dudes
Brewer
Wick
Guerra
Spangenberg
Lockett
Those would be my 5
Pirela?
Rea as well possibly.
How in the holy hell is pirella not on this list?
Offers position flexibility and platoon potential. RH bat to pair with Urias if he struggles against lefties and same with Cordero.
Assuming you deal myers and 1 of renfroe or reyes giving cordero 1st grab at a corner spot.
I would ditch Mitchell too even though he had a few good starts at the end of last season.
You don’t dump FHOFers
??? Quiroz bats LH. Urias bats RH.
Just to add on pirela batted a manageable .260/.324/.397 line against lefties.
Platoons with Hosmer sorry not urias greg garcia and Cordero depending how things shake out. I see garcia and pirela splitting time at 2nd to delay urias clock.
got jokes and jokes and jokes
pirela & mitchell should just be straight dumped. rea cordoba torrens wick lockett and kennedy could all be moved or cut as well. just a matter of time before we find out what’s what
Delay Urias’ clock? he was already called up
A .721 OPS as the short-side of platoon who also can’t play defense has no value. Pirela is first to go IMO.
@gleybertorres25 they can still start him in AAA for the first 2 months to delay his FA. Not saying that’s what they’ll do but it’s possible.
I’ve finally encountered the second Pirella fan (other is Preller obviously). I don’t get it.
After the damaged goods deal with Pomeranz, I wouldn’t take anything from the Padres.
You do realize Anderson Espinoza needed tjs almost immediately after being traded to the padres and hasnt pitched since right? Pomeranz gave the red Sox way more production than padres got out of Espinoza thus far.
How quickly Red Sox forget Pomeranz gave the Red Sox 32 starts in 2017 of 3.84 FIP, 9 k/9, 3.5 bb/9
Didn’t realize all that. I just can’t stand him. Other than that, gave you an upvote & myself a downvote. :0)
ey will do your penance.
So yes Pomeranz was our best starter in 2017, but he was awful after the trade in 2016 and in 2018. Espinoza pitches in the minors for you in 2016, hurt his arm in the spring, they tried to rest it but eventually in like June his UCL gave out. And he was young for his level so it’s not a big deal, now almost a right of passage for pitchers. Padres killed the Sox in that deal.
That Chris Sale was garbage last year.
Padres also traded Kimbrel to Sox. . Half their farm system are former Red Sox players:
Anderson Espinoza
Manuel Margot
Javy Guerra
Carlos Asuaje
Logan Allen
Esteban Quiroz
No wonder Red Sox have no farm system. Dealing Dombroski strikes again.
Yeah, the 2018 World Series Champions have a poor minor league system. And all they got out of those deals was possibly top 3 starter in the AL with Sale, a top 3 closer in Kimbrel and a 17-game winner in 2017 in Pomeranz. What a terrible GM.
If you want people to take your comments seriously I’d leave out that “17-game winner” thing. Especially considering my dead grandmother could win 17 games in a season with the 2017 Red Sox’s offense behind her.
Until Espinoza actually pitches in the Majors…..no,no they didn’t.
Pomeranz had to be traded. Really the worst thing you can say about that trade for the Padres is that they should have traded him for something else.
Your grandma had quite the knuckle ball but Pomeranz’s numbers in 2017 backed up the 17 wins. He had a good year and the Sox wouldn’t have made the playoffs without him.
I know this is all hindsight but no way the Red Sox make that deal knowing what they know now. They failed to win the WS (or even make it) in 2016 and 2017 and Pomeranz was below replacement during the 2018 regular season and didn’t pitch for the Sox in the postseason. Unless you think Pomeranz has some serious positive intangibles the Red Sox still win just as many World Series without him and then Espinoza might have helped them out down the road.
Thanks redrooster for the info.
Bag of baseballs, a couple Tom Brady signed footballs, some Bruins hockey tickets for the fellas, and 2 month supply of clam chowda.
whoa, that is way too much to give up
Fine keep the tom brady stuff. Clam chowder is non negotiable.
I’ll probably take shots for this, but other than being the hated Red Sox, I wanted the Brewers to trade for him 😉
What class are you not paying attention to right now? Lol…just curious.
Busines Statistics (p values, statistically significant #, R values, reject null/alternative hypothesis) with Calculus w/ derivatives (anti- derivatives honorable mention) “Last math class ever have to take.” what I use to get through my day.
That and mlbtr 🙂 Put PRO in procrastination P
No wonder you like stats.
No doubt college class.
Good luck!
Xab,
I hated calculus. Took two levels in college and stopped when the next course involved multiple variables. Sad that I have no idea on what you spoke of. As you get older you lose it if you don’t use it and I definitely have lost it…
So you’re what 22-23?
One year of calculus and I forgot it all within a month
Its for Bobby Dalbec confirmed
Confirmed or you just hoping lol. Thatd be a gross overpay from the Sox imo. Maybe if yates and stammen are included dalbec would be part of the package going back.
confirmed
kidding
I would like to acquire Dalbec and give him a shot at the starting job. There are some rumblings of Villanueva being let go to the NPB.
Dennis Lin on Twitter as the source
Strange. Unless the Sox have another trade on tap to open back up a fifth 40-man spot, they’re going to lose a guy in the rule 5 draft. They’ve got 3 guys who are no brain ETS to protect — Chavis, Lakins, and Darwinzon Hernandez— But now they’ll have to choose between Josh Ockimey and Josh Taylor. Seems likely that whoever they don’t protect is going to be taken. Taylor is a lefty with a mid nineties fastball and useable secondary pitches, so he’s guaranteed to go and relatively easy for any bad team to stash in their bullpen all year for garbage time if he’s not ready for the bright lights yet.
Do I have this right, Bert, that you think the Sox won’t protect those three guys? If so, you are right that they will be drafted and have a chance to stick with their new club.
No, he is saying Chavis, Lakins, and Darwinzon Hernandez will be protected.
But after this move only one of Josh Ockimey and Josh Taylor can be, so he is saying one of those 2 will be in the Rule-V draft
The Red Sox like the other 6 or so front running 2019 WS contenders need to stock up 40 man with AAA arms with options. These teams that are all in need pitching depth that can be optioned to AAA to sustain the eventual pitching injuries during a season. This is more important than using a 40 man roster spot on a AAA OF or IF with 50% chance of maybe making it to MLB one day.
esteban Quiroz sent to pads
Esteban Quiroz, according to Drelick. Still seems like an over pay for a guy with a chance to be a decent second baseman whose in triple A. They need the depth right now because of Pedroia’s uncertainty and the general badness of Nunez as an everyday player.
Worth trading Brewer just to clear a 40 man spot. Quiroz looks like he can hit a little bit (scouting the batting line) but is old for a prospect.
Seven years in the Mexican League. Lifetime .402 OBP. Hit 7 HRs in only 87 at-bats last year.
They need a few middle infielders for Double-A and Triple-A next year. They have none on the El Paso roster since Dusty Coleman and Diego Goris were let go.
Quiroz played 24 games in AA after 8 in RK ball. That is the extent of his professional experience. He has never played in AAA.
He played in the AFL this fall
He played in the Mexican Summer League for several years. That is a professional league.
@csspackler haven’t seen your name around much recently, good to see you are still around
Thank you.
Clears a 40 man roster spot. 5 more to go.
Very nice trade, Padres get a really interesting piece that they don’t have to add to the 40 man until they choose. 1 year in professional ball, they can take their time with him, ignore the age. The value is there as upper level depth in the organization and most importantly he can hit!!
Too many Punch and Judy SS’s coming through the system like Guerra. Quiroz looks like he can swing it, and can play both middle INF spots along with 3B huge value for only Brewer who was essentially a roster dump.
Keep it going Preller, that was Chris Paddack’s roster spot opening right there.
Quiroz is Hunter Renfroe’s age and hasn’t played above AA. He is not an interesting piece. All this does is clear a 40-man spot.
We got something for a player that was likely to be DFA’d. Pretty nice OBP and K%, so I concur he’s an interesting player.
Indeed, and he’s a versatile infielder as well. Played 3B, SS, and 2B in Mexico.
Interesting guy going to SD despite him being a little older.
He comes with a great turkey chili recipe.
Nice response to the James Paxton deal. Go go go, Dombrowski! /yes im kidding
The Red Sox don’t have to respond to anything the Yankees do. They’re the champs.
Much ado about nothing..
The Bard’s best comedy. Love me some Beatrice.
This is also the first trade between AJ Preller and Dave Dombrowski since the whole medical records fiasco. Granted this is barely a half-step above a straight DFA.
I wonder if Dave is having Thanksgiving at the Rockstar GM’s house this year as well……never say never…Go Padres!
Move or dump
Lockett
Rea
Spangenberg
Asuaje
Pirela
Wick
Im skeptical the Padres dump Pirela. Andy Green seems to love him for a weird reason.
HUGE QUIROZ FAN
SOG. Lockett’s already gone …. to Cleveland. It seems like the Padres have had Rea forever. I wish Spangy had worked out better. Still remember his debut. Hoped it was the start of something… gaaaaa still hoping even today! This will be a long year… Come on 2020!
Depth piece for Red Sox with options that can be shuttled back and forth from AAA to MLB when pitching injuries happen to every MLB team throughout a season. Padres get a middle infielder that doesn’t need to be protected from Rule 5 that is close to MLB ready due to playing experience in Mexico.
A minor win win trade.
Maybe Dave knows something that isn’t obvious in Brewer’s stats because the stats are not very impressive.