2:43pm: The trade is now official. The Phillies designated outfielder Dylan Cozens for assignment to make room for Dickerson.
2:14pm: MLB.com’s Todd Zolecki tweets that the Phillies will send international bonus allotments and a player to be named later to Pittsburgh.
2:08pm: The Pirates will not receive a player in return for Dickerson, Jim Salisbury of NBC Sports Philadelphia reports (on Twitter). It’s possible that Pittsburgh is picking up some international funds, then, or that Pirates ownership was simply happy to shed the remainder of his salary.
1:51pm: The Phillies have acquired outfielder Corey Dickerson from the Pirates, ESPN’s Jeff Passan reports (via Twitter). He’ll add a quality bat to the Phillies’ outfield mix for the remainder of the season before becoming a free agent this winter.
Dickerson, 30, missed nearly two months with a shoulder strain earlier this season but has hit well since coming off the injured list. In 141 plate appearances, he’s posted a .317/.376/.556 batting line — capped by a two-homer, five-RBI performance last night in what proved to be his final start for the Pirates. A 2017 All-Star, Dickerson long carried the reputation as a defensive liability, but he surprised with 16 Defensive Runs Saved last season and took home a Gold Glove for his efforts. He’s earning $8.5MM this year and is still owed about $2.79MM of that sum over the final two months of the year.
The Phillies didn’t expect to need this level of outfield help in 2019 after signing both Bryce Harper and Andrew McCutchen in the offseason, but they’ve lost McCutchen to a torn ACL while center fielder Odubel Herrera has been suspended for the remainder of the season under the league’s domestic violence policy. Philadelphia tried to proactively address its needs with a June acquisition of Jay Bruce, but Bruce has been bitten by the injury bug as well and is currently out for weeks with an oblique injury.
Philadelphia is currently tied with the Cubs for the second NL Wild Card spot and is a somewhat distant but still-surmountable six games behind the Braves in the NL East. The Nationals sit just a half game in front of the Phillies in both those races, so Dickerson’s addition will prove impactful in what should be a tight race down the stretch.
Why tho?
To screw over the Braves.
Adam Duvall would say hi, but he’s too busy hitting HRs.
lol nice
DAMN YOU SID BREAM!
Can still see Sid and his brace lumbering home as Barry’s throw was up the 1st base line…….As Buford T. Justice would say……Sumbitch!!!!
A decent throw would have had him.
That was the last thing that Bonds did as a Pirate.
Here we go the Phillies needed an outfielder.
perhaps Bruce is further away than they thought. Dickerson can hit and Lord knows they needed a bench bat with McCutcheon gone and Bruce out for a while. Still hope Haseley plays regularly.
I bet Haseley plays CF and Dickerson in LF while Kingery moves to 3B.
Agreed
As Richie Ashburn used to say: “you can bet your house on it. “
Franco has been excellent at 3rd this year. His streaky bat is an issue, but I’d like Haseley off the bench and Kingerey in OF on occasion.
I like it. Jason Werth type signing?? If he shows production I hope the Phillies re-up him.
I’m confuzzled
Cool
Someone should tell him, he’s still sitting on the bench.
Quality player. Hopefully, they got something decent for him.
Won’t get anything for him based on him being acquired as a depth OF.
Unfortunately he’s an expiring contract and his injuries cost the pirates big time in getting a return on one of few players of any value.
Hope that it’s an arm. Lower level or whatever. Why not offer half the Bucs bullpen too? Oh yea….never mind.
It’s not an impact trade. Barely matters what we get just like Lyles.
Things are gonna be ugly in Pirates land for a looong time.
Should really do what they can to get something for Felipe now to kick off the rebuild.
Takes Pirates at least 5x longer to rebuild than serious clubs.
Kingery
Segura
Harper
Hoskins
Realmuto
Dickerson
Hernandez
Franco (Bohm by end of year)
Pitcher
1 thing I know as well as I know my name is that Alec Bohm will not be promoted to the Phils by the end of the year. Saw him play 2 days ago for AA Reading and he’s doing ok but nothing screams a promotion to AAA at this point.
The Phils will give Haseley as many ab’s as he can handle. When Dickerson-Haseley-Harper is the OF, look for Kingery at 3B.
Yeah Bohm has already jumped 3 levels this year so I highly doubt he jumps 2 more. He probably needs to spend a few months at AAA before moving up to the majors. I see him more as a mid-season call up next year, probably by September at the latest.
Loved watching him play. one of the few to play the game the right way.
With a glove?
So there’s only a few that play the game the right way?
In Pittsburgh, that’s an absolute truth
Agreed. Was a pleasure watching that guy.
Good quality outfielder that can play CF and allow Kingery to move to 3B.
I like it. I wonder what they had to give up?
Given Dickerson’s salary and the Pirates being the Pirates I bet it’s not much for taking the whole salary. Probably a Lotto ticket
I don’t think Kingery’s arm plays well at 3B.
It didn’t when he started at SS last season either, but he picked it up. I believe he’s serviceable at 3b and his offense is better than Franco. Of course, there also the spped factor too.
SS pROsPeCt
priorities, Klentak
A priority is getting Franco out of the lineup. Given Dickerson’s offense and moving Kingery to 3B, he has done that. Bench is better with Franco on it.
Bye Sean Rodriguez.
What team in the NL has a better 8 hole hitter that plays golf glove caliber defense than Franco?
When the hell did Maikel Franco start playing GG caliber defense?
This year. Have you not beem watching?
Sweet. Yet ANOTHER LH hitting OFer can never have too many of those am I right?
Braves bullpen just blew another lead…
Wow, smh.
JoDo says hold my beer.
Probably the best outfielder available this deadline. I’m sure the Pirates got Bob Nutting’s favorite player in return: Cash Considerations.
He has to keep his mountain resort up and running.
That, and his bankrupt newspaper that reports on coal-related items to 14 people in Wheeling, WV.
HAHAHAHA!!! 2:08pm UPDATE: I called it!!! Budget Bob strikes again!
Welp in the update 6 mins later, at 2:14 International money and a PTBNL.
Hour to go, boys.
Not a bad get Phils. I know none of these moves have been big splashes but I’ll take it. So many impasse deadlines of years’ past make this one happy for me.
Phillies won’t make the playoffs. Giants will have better record, mark my words. Hehehhehe :)
And if you’re wrong? They’re just words!
get back to us at the end if their current series.
And in return, Huntington accepted a cracked bat and two bags of balls. Fire sale ‘19 has begun, the annual time of excitement for Pirates fans
There’s definitely a big offensive upgrade if Kingery moves to 3B and Dickerson takes an OF spot since Dickerson hits much better than Franco.
But there is going to be a BIG defensive downgrade at 3B because Franco has been playing a very good 3B and Kingery has never been good at third.
Franco has never been good at third. Ever.
This year says different. He’s made some really spectacular plays and all the analytics say he’s played a good 3B, Fangraphs UZR/150 has him as the 5th best defensive 3B having saved 2.9 runs so far this year and on pace for 5.8
Watching every game I think he’s played much better defensively this year than any other previous season. I think with Kingery there is a ‘repetition’ factor. If he stays at one position he improves defensively. He got better at SS last season as the year went on. He’s gotten better (still not that great) in the OF as the season has gone on.
Problem is 3B is also about your throwing arm and he definitely doesn’t have the arm Franco does.
I’m at work and don’t have time to check, can someone tell me what time the deadline is for trades? Is it midnight eastern time? Or is it like 3pm pacific?
in an hour
4 PM Eastern
4 p.m. EDT
Pirates got 2 cases of sunflower seeds and a condiment to be named later for him.
Apparently, it wasn’t even that much…
No player? Are you serious Pirates? I know Dickerson is a rental but come on…
This has to be a new low.
What?! No player coming back. Like Nicasio a few yrs ago. Why does he give players away! Good players that teams WOULD trade for. An OPS over .900 and batting avg around .320!gold glove just a year ago. Owed less than 3 million not 30 million. What is this? it better be a lot of international money. Sellllll the team!!! He has value. Real value and he was just given away.
Even some cash Int bonus money.. something….
okay not bad.. Int bonus money and a PTBNL.. not bad considering Dickersons injuries this year.
Good luck Corey!
Bob Nutting makes Donald Sterling and James Dolan look like incredible owners.
Cash. No shock.
The return is money into Nutting’s pocket.
Nutting is a joke
Dickerson is a quality corner outfielder and all the Pirates got was some cash and a PTBNL. I can tell you already that this deal is not going to go over well over in Pittsburgh. If Neal trades Vasquez for anything else than what hes worth then its going to be a very long summer for the Bucs because the city is sick of the way they do business.
I can tell you already that this deal is not going to go over well over in Pittsburgh.
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Are the ‘phans’ going to stop going to the games?
Is it possible for a construction company employee in Pittsburgh to just take a few bulldozers and push the entire ballpark into the river in the middle of the night, so Nutting can’t rape it for cash anymore?
Worst owner in quite possibly sports history. They need an MLB version of the Ted Stepian Rule called the Bob Nutting Rule that you can’t just give away your better players to avoid paying their contracts.
Worst owner in quite possibly sports history.
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ROTFLMAO!!!!!
You’ve apparently never heard of the NY Knicks or Jim Dolan. The Pirates have made the playoffs 3 times in the 10+ years Nutting has owned them.
That’s probably 30 year’s of production for the Knicks, who literally print money.
Pirate fans who make that statement, when the previous owner was Kevin McClatchy, are either too young to remember or too old to….remember.
The only thing I can say for McClatchy was that he kept the team in the Burgh……not much else to say……
International bonus money (not cash) plus a player to be named later. I believe Trevor Williams was once one of those players to be named later in a Marlins trade. All is not lost – not yet.
Not a bad get for a player that has been playing hurt most of the year (has had a groin issue lately) and he would be gone after the season for nothing at all. Maybe they can sign him back after the season if he is not getting offered huge money.
Agreed. It will be interesting to learn how much international bonus money and the ptbnl. Without knowing either of these things, pretty hard to evaluate how good or bad the trade is. Despite the fact that nobody knows, negativity reigns.
I like Dickerson, but if they resigned him, where does he play? Marte is going to be in CF, and they have to give Reynolds one of the corner spots. Basically it comes down to Dickerson vs Polanco for regular time—they wouldn’t platoon, one would have to go. Would have to see what you could get for Polanco and get Dickerson to resign at a reasonable rate. Just too many ifs in that scenario
They invested in Polanco, which means hes the guy even if hes terrible. They dont dump bad contracts unlesss it involves selling top prospects off with them lmao.
1) An intl. bonus allotment is not cash, it will actually result in Nutting spending more than he would have before this trade.
2) Corey was only likely to bring back a #15-30 org. prospect. You have a better chance of getting a good player by signing international free agents.
3) We have no clue who the PTBNL is.
4) Don’t let those facts get in the way. Carry on.
Found Bob Nutting’s burner account.
You read all the way to the end and follow instructions well. Good job.
Are the Pirates covering his remaining salary?
No
Gosh, if salary is all, braves should have grabbed him simply so no one else does. Solid move by the Phillies here.
cAn hE pITcH?
I am impressed by the way the Pirate fans have excoriated the trade, without knowing who the PTBNL is, and without knowing how much international money is included.
Muy clairvoyant.
I am impressed that you are trilingual Joe.”Clairvoyant” is based on a French word and ”muy””means “very”in Spanish.
why didnt they just recall Cozens and put him on the 60-day?
Phils need pitching so it makes perfect sense to get an outfielder.
The Phillies aquired pitching too. 2 starters and a reliever. Say what you will about Klentak, but he did well at the deadline. Addressed every need without giving anything up. The Phillies didn’t make any blockbuster moves, but they weren’t really in a position to.
Wow, nothing surprises me anymore with the Pirates. Granted Dickerson has been injured this year, but his upside is his gold glove and .300+ BA with .900 OBA. This is literally a number 2 hitter in any lineup with a solid defense. Phillies just got a steal. Reminds me of that Archer trade, but this one pirates get peanuts and PTBNL ♂️
“or that Pirates ownership was simply happy to shed the remainder of his salary.”
Lol nutting is so cheap
Except that was not what happened.
umm it basically is what happened, a few hundred thousand and a minor leaguer (nothing) vs 2,8 million
in pirates defense, this season is over so hes useless anyways
the low return for him could suggest why cabrera and liriano are still here
every deal thats the motivating factor lmao
Told you the Phils could get Dickerson for a boogah. They did.
Well at least Cozens hit a homerun in the majors. No one can take that away!
Maybe Cozens will be the PTBNL.
Phillies do everything backwards.
Phillies suck
Phillies need a new manager
Pirates got something for him, I mean their seasons over, so anything is good.
I’m surprised they couldn’t get anything for Cabrera or Liriano though. Cabrera will be getting the Mercer/Jhay treatment a month from now.
FWIW, the max they will get from the PTBNL is probably a bench MLB player at best. If I hadn’t lost all faith in NH, I would be happy with the international pool money,
Who is the PTBN later and what is international pool money amount in Dickerson trade?