The Giants have acquired second baseman Scooter Gennett from the Reds, Mark Sheldon of MLB.com reports. The Reds will get cash considerations in return, per Jon Heyman of MLB Network.
It’s a win-now move by the Giants, who have charged back into NL wild-card contention over the past several weeks. The 29-year-old Gennett, who’s earning a $9.775MM salary, isn’t under control past this season. He has missed almost all of 2019 because of a groin injury, and in the 72 plate appearances Gennett has taken, the lefty has managed a meager .217/.236/.261 line without a home run.
While this season has been a nightmare for Gennett, he was unexpectedly one of the majors’ best second basemen over the previous two years. After the Reds acquired him from the Brewers via waivers entering 2017, he proceeded to slash .303/.351/.508 with 50 home runs and 6.7 fWAR in 1,135 plate appearances through last season. That type of production would be ideal for the Giants, who have seen No. 1 second baseman Joe Panik struggle to a .231/.305/.312 line with three homers in 375 trips to the plate this year.
Good
Go Giants!
YESSSS
WHAT IS GOING ON
WOW! I wonder what we had to give up. If we kept all of our big four prospects then I’m fine with this!
He’s a free agent after the season, I don’t think they gave up much
Yeah now that I see that and how bad he’s been since returning we probably didn’t give up much of anything
Just cash lmao. Farhan is a wizard.
Reds were looking to move him so they can play the kids rest of year… Scooter has his timing down now and he is about to start rolling again…
It says the Giants gave up cash considerations
I wish teams would announce how much cash moves in these deals.
I’d like to know…..
From the 2nd line of the article… The Reds will get cash considerations in return
Wow!
Unless they absolutely gave him away, Reds fans have got to be pleased. It looked for certain that he’d walk and they’d get nothing for him this offseason.
Sorry reds fans. They gave him away
Cash is king!
There were reports there was a PTBNL as well.
Panik
Wowzers
Nice
Lol wut? Why? I guess they kept MadBum so they are shooting for a WC berth? I guess it makes sense, but why trade away relievers then?
“Retooling”
It’s not an even numbered year. They shouldn’t bother…..
Dude be quiet, you should be mopping my kitchen floors anyway paco.
*Sad face* Thanks for the memories, Scoot
Giants, WS champs. Odd year, MadBum WS MVP. Joe West cries.
No
But why
Because
LOL!
As a Reds Fan, I can say that I’m not happy, Gennett is a hard nose player, He wanted to sign an extension to stay with the Reds as he is native, I would have rather gave up Peraza as Gennett is by and far a better Player, Congrats Giants fans, You have a Great one.
Reds can still sign him in the offseason.
Hey Tatis, looks like Zaidi did’t do anything you wanted him to do. Keep playing fantasy GM behind your computer. You’re on a roll.
He did exactly what I wanted him to do. Hold all his rentals and trade for another in Gennett so that they can lose them all for nothing in the offseason and the Giants can suck for longer.
Like the Padres? Forever? Well, there was 2010 when the Giants shut em down at the end and won the WS
Prattle along little child. Better days are not on the horizon for your team.
Bro the padres have never ever even seen better days lmao.
A great one? If anyone had offered more than a bag of balls last off-season or last year’s trade deadline he would’ve been gone already. Good dude, decent hitter, but terrible defender
A great one was speaking to his personality and hard working nature, Not meaning the Greatest 2B alive, I enjoyed him being here as he was a Gritty Ballplayer, Reds won’t sign him in the Offseason.
Not so. He had a 4.2 WAR last year; one of the best second basemen in baseball. Reds had no plans to trade him (probably were going to try to extend him) until his horrible injury this spring. He has played miserably since returning and is a FA after this year, so now he is basically worthless.
Reds probably the favorite to resign him after the season, though. He’s a Cincy native, and he’s not going to get a lot of good offers after the injury and the season he has had.
He’s not a terrible defender. Somewhat below average; not terrible.
Scooter was a very good bat and a pretty good defender. I think his role needs to be a multi-position role player and he may end up back in Cincinnati next year.
No, we have too many 2nd basemen. He is gone.
Right, but Peraza is a fraction of the cost and under team control. Extending Scooter made no sense for the Reds at this point in time.
A Fraction of the Cost and a Fraction of the Hitter. I would rather have the hitter than the cost, Plus he wanted to be here.
I think he is done , we got the best of him ,
It’ll be interesting to see how his bat plays at Oracle Park. He’s having a rough year so far, albeit in a small sample size. Could be an impact move for the Giants if he returns to his 2017-2018 self.
He needs to hop in an Uber with Dickerson to Philadelphia PA for tonight’s game.
Lol. Let’s hope he’s another Yaz or Dickerson! I’ll pop for the Uber squad
Because Joe Panik sucks.
Only time I have agreed with you
Nice considering I made about 5 comments in my MLBTR career.
I think Panik is panicking!
Joe Panik Done. Hopefully Scoot can provide some batting avg. Along with Dubon, if he comes up too.
Keep the line moving. Score 4 at least. Keep contending. Make it interesting…
Only cash? Damn I think Farhan might have won the deadline. Dude turned Pomeranz, black, dyson, and Melancon into Dubon, Gennett, and a gaggle of prospects. Wow!
Depends on how much of Melancon’s contract we got to eat, but I agree FZ did a lot with very little.,
Reports are that the Braves are taking on all of Melancon’s salary. Amazing.
There will be dancing in the streets.
Believe me I squealed in delight and danced a jig upon the news that the Braves were taking on his salary . Thought for sure we’d have to eat some (or a lot) of his salary. Farhan- this was a masterful wizard move! ♂️
Won the deadline? By getting the team stuck in the middle. Sure.
Hardly “stuck.” Standing pat for now with a team that’s been playing .700 ball for a month. . And No prospects given up. And Arizona just punted on third down.
And unloading an albatross of a contract!!!
Zaidi traded some spare parts and simultaneously dumped salary, gained some short term help for this season, and acquired some interesting prospects for the future.
Only Bumgarner and Smith could get back players that move the needle. None of they players they got back do
hell of a deadline for a team in their position. traded guys in an deep bullpen and got some decent prospects and Gennett. perfect combination of win-now and forward-looking, especially given the rest of their rentals wouldnt get back anything franchise-altering in all reality.
Scootaro Gennett?
The Reds are getting a player to be named later in the deal.
Maybe Austin gets sent down, would make more sense. We got Posey and Panda to back up 1B, and three 2B. Why not?
Posey and especially Austin are especially weak offensively.
jeeeeeez gimme at LEAST something with a heartbeat. cash “considerations”??!! ugh.
yes I suppose they got SOMETHING, but suppose the Giants “consider” zero is a fair number? grrr
I grew up a Giants fan with Horace Stoneham routinely selling good players for beer and pretzels. It could always be worse.
I was too young to have followed the Giants in the early 70s, but looking at the young players they traded away for nothing during those years: Gary Matthews, George Forster, Garry Maddox, et al., sheesh.
This is odd, because although Heyman is reporting the Reds will receive cash, John Fay of the Cincinnati Enquirer (who is usually right about these things) is reporting that the Reds are also sending cash to the Giants and will receive a player to be named later.
why why why reds organization is so lost
Reds have a better team today. They cleared out a logjam in the OF, and now have plenty of playing time for Winker, Senzel, Ervin, and VanMeter. They cleared out the logjam at 2B, and now Peraza and VanMeter can get regular time there. They turned an underperforming AA prospect into Bauer, a legit #2 starter. They replaced the underperforming AA prospect with a similar OF prospect from the Roark trade. Puig and Roark were on expiring deals, so they got something in return for them instead of letting them walk for nothing.
How many NL teams can match the pitching rotation of the Reds, this year or next?
They improved the rotation greatly, with a nominal cost in return.
As for lost, the Cardinals FO has been lost this entire trade deadline. I think they were hiking the Appalachian Trail for a team building exercise …
What do you want? In the last year, the Reds have improved more than any other team MLB. Except for Scooter Gennett who will ultimately be replaced by Josh VanMeter in the IF, only their very best players remain from last year’s team. The Rotation and OF are completely reformed from very bad to very good. Only their pen took a step back from 2018. From here on out, the Reds look strong.
I can’t believe the giants got gennet for cash!!! I totally trust farhan now that we got gennet, the top third prospect of the brewers organization, and getting rid of melancon’s contract
Scooter wanted to resign last year could have got the home town discount but traded him for cash wft Dick Willaims ? you just traded not one but fan favorites today and you claim you all in for winning? Last time I checked cash can’t pitch, hit or bunt
The Giants are going to send back Panik as the player to be named later
Good get for the Giants. See how he plays for the next 2 months and try to extend him if all goes well and the price is right. Dubon can spell him and play CF and Ss as well if they want his bat on the lineup. All good on this trial run, let’s go Giants!
Definitely!!! Can’t wait to see how this year ends up! I hope gennet does well, I think he will cause the relief of the trade deadline is over. But on the other hand he might still be a little saddened by the fact of being traded…
Interesting to read the comments after SF has released Scooter.