The Rays have traded left-hander Anthony Banda to the Giants, Robert Murray reports. The Giants sent cash considerations in return, Henry Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle was among those to tweet. To make room for Banda, the Giants placed outfielder Joey Rickard on the 60-day injured list with left elbow inflammation.
The 27-year-old Banda spent a short time in limbo, as the Rays designated him for assignment Sunday. Banda’s a former top 100 prospect whom the Rays acquired from the Diamondbacks in a three-way trade entering the 2018 season, though he hasn’t made much of a major league impact so far. Banda wound up throwing just 51 1/3 innings with the Rays, including seven frames this year, and recording a 5.96 ERA (and a far better 3.67 FIP) with 7.19 K/9 against 3.16 BB/9.
Big Panda & Tony Banda, Esquire
Cool, so we have left handers in the BP now?
For who?
Joey Bart
This seemed like an eppler move. What-a-happened?
To Farhan Zaidi, all trash is treasure.
There was once a time where Mike Yaz and Donny Solano were considered “trash.” Yet, they’ve carried the Giants team to being a game out of the WC.
Yes just like last year they will make a run and fail and finish with the 13th pick in the draft again. If they would have signed a few good players this offseason and spent some of the boat loads of money they have maybe we would be in a much more comfortable spot than exactly where we were at this point last year just before the trade deadline.
Everyone wants to say we are in a rebuilding year but then all of a sudden you think this team can compete?!? Choose one or the other but you can’t have both! This middle of the road baseball purgatory will get you nowhere. Either try to win or try to lose but don’t make a half ass effort that doesn’t result in a chance in the playoffs or a top pick.
This was just another wasted opportunity by Zaidi to improve this team with very little effort. Just like last year when he didnt trade Smith and MadBum and look at how that turned out. Not sure how not doing anything is a great strategy but would love to hear about how masterfully Zaidi has handled yet another opportunity to improve this team and come up with nothing.
I know you won’t reply. But, what players were teams willing to part with for MadBum and Smith? How do you know those players are better than what they drafted? What’s wrong with the players they have in the Minors?
The players they drafted with the picks they got for Madbum and Smith were underslot picks and nobody is excited about them. Supposedly they did all that so they could overpay Harrison. Harrison is a soft throwing high school lefty who may or may not work out.
Madbum and Smith had value at the deadline and Clint Frazier and Miguel Andujar were both names. If that is the base of the trade and you have to throw in a mid level prospect or two so you can upgrade to a bat like Frazier you do it.
What is wrong with the Giants minors you ask? For one thing, the only blue chip prospects are the ones Bobby Evans brought in. Mediocre prospects with no stars around them don’t win very much or is this the first year you’ve watched baseball?
Oh gawd??? Clint Frazier? Why? His defense is pathetic. He would be lost at Oracle. I don’t understand why you would want him. Harrison is rated as having a high ceiling. Jeez…
Last I checked he doesn’t use his glove to hit bombs. Spoiler alert… DH is coming to the NL permanently so I don’t care if Frazier even owns a glove
There was no DH in the NL in 2019. So, why would the Giants trade for a DH. Show me evidence that the Yankees actually offered Frazier for either Smith, or Bumgarner. Rumors are just rumors. They rarely actually happen. Get real.
Wow…. Zaidi really going for it with this move. Quest for mediocrity well under way
Still a step above the quality of your comments
The Giants are rebuilding. They are years away.
No they’re not. Their prospects are coming up, they have almost no money left on the books after this year and next, and they’re trying to put a competitive team on the field. They’ve also played .500 baseball since May of last year.
I share Andy’s frustration!
This is a team that is managing to rebuild while compete at the same time. What more can you ask of Zaidi and co? This team might surprise everyone and make the postseason in what was expected to be a laugher of a year. And they are definitely going to be better next year, too.
72-70 since June 1st, 2019
@Andy and @Scott, I don’t disagree with your assessments at all. However,I don’t care about this year’s playoffs for the G-men. If we get in, I don’t expect to go very deep). I would’ve preferred Farhan move a few guys that aren’t under contract next year to see if we could speed up the rebuild (Gausman, Watson, even Cueto tho we’d have to had eaten some/a lot of his contract for next year). I have to assume that contenders weren’t offering as much as FZ wanted or he would’ve moved those guys.
I think the thing you aren’t considering though is what do you get back? if moving a guy and getting back a low level prospect or someone in need of more work than you want to put into a guy it may make more sense to just hold – I mean even though he has declined – a guy like robbie ray only garnered a rule 5 guy that the giants sent back last year, so the asking prices vs the returns may not be there in a shortened season like this.
You get back a higher draft pick at the end of the year and you give your prospects more playing time. It isn’t just the players you get back in return. Not trading Gausman and Cueto will keep this team just below .500 and good enough to just miss the playoffs or be one and done while eliminating any chance for a top 5 pick next year. If you trade them we lose more thus get a higher draft pick next year. This is how 4 of the last 5 World Series champions were built
And how many years were the royals, cubs, and Astros trash before their World Series? I’ll take a team that is attempting to be competitive every year rather than an intentional dumpster fire for half a decade. Furthermore, you fail to mention the dozens of times teams have tried to rebuild by trading known quantities for prospects and tanking for draft picks and still wound up being awful. Also, 3 out of the last 5 World Series champions – the red sox and nationals won in large part because of their free agent spending and trade acquisitions.
I hear you Wolf. I think that last year, FZ didn’t like what he was being offered in return for Bum and Smith. Otherwise, in addition to minor political reasons, he would’ve traded them. Gausman seemed like a goner, for sure, a week ago. But, my guess is, the returns just weren’t good enough. I might just have to root for the Friars to take down the Dodgers this year….oh geez!
It took Houston a decade to achieve a winning record. Giants will probably do that this season.
Former 100 top prospect that we got for nothing. He’ll try to sneak him off the 40 man roster and use him as a depth piece. Nothing wrong with that. Padres going hard with trades this weekend, probably realized it wasn’t worth messing with the farm for a month worth of upside.
FIP looks good for the last three seasons. Looks like he got beat on this season, but only 7 IP. The guy doesn’t look like a difference maker, but it’s another arm to spell a weary bullpen.
Dumpster diving Farhan at his finest
Good luck to Banda. I like this kid and I wish nothing but the best. I hope he can turn it around and get back to pitching as well as he has in the past.
Just got back from Austin, and got some X-rays on my elbow. Luckily they were negative, but I am getting an MRI next week to get a better look. (I ran into Brent Honeywell if you were wondering lol)
But alas I come back home to the sucky news that the Rangers traded nobody good. We won’t get a super high draft pick in 21′, and we will still be middle of the pack next season too with no exciting prospects coming up…
Good news! Hopefully the scan will rule out something for you.
The Rays didn’t make a splash either. Oh well.
Oh poor Honey. Kid’s had some major hurdles so far.
I wonder if this is part of a bigger trade. Perhaps we’ll be hearing about another buzzer beating deal involving Tony Watson?
watson would be a good guy to move if there is a buyer
BANDA on the Run !!
Giants are the Banda-misfits
Coming in with that cooooool ERA just over 10
Tony Banta, he used to drive a Taxi, with Nardo, Wheeler, Reiger, and Reverend Jim.
That’s it? That is the Giants big deadline trade? Wow.
Who said they were going to make a big deal?
Kid had TJ in 2018, could have been added as useful information to the article.
Used to be a good prospect in the Dbacks system.
What so many posters don’t realize is the vets, the big contracts, are all having great bounce back years. And those are the guys you’d need to trade but no one would pay that money. What on earth sense would it make to trade them, and what kinda message would you be showing to younger players. They’d think “this organization just wants to cut contracts, why would I want to stay”. Longoria, belt and Crawford are all surging.
And the future, aka Bart and dubon are struggling. Some of you people with your “dumpster dive” moronic comments? Can we see something we haven’t seen or read 200 times?
Agreed. That dumpster diving has produced Yastrzemski, Solano, Garcia, Cahill, and Anderson. So over comments about dumpster diving or about how the Giants won’t be competitive for years. It’s like a tired, old record on repeat.
With the scratches that make the record sound like paper crumbling
I agree with Andy – a 72-70 record since June 1st 2019 is AMAZING considering where this team was. We all have seen Farhans magic. He has quietly put together a team that is foundationaly competing, WHILE, still chess piecing the future together.
Playing 500 ball the past year means the team is building its confidence, new core, and chipping and shaving and molding into an eventual contender. It means ITS WORKING. This all started in July of last year. They are are incredibly offensively, mindset. Their bullpen was lights out last year, and now the bullpen this year has found their chemistry.
Honestly lol, we’ve watched a little over ONE FRIKIN MONTH of baseball, and look at how they have performed, and yet people are still wanting to axe everyone and REBUILD REBUILD REBUILD. THEY ARE REBUILDING in front of your eyes!
This team is going to be pretty frikin amazing in the coming years. I ABSOLUTELY trust Farhan. I want Farhan her for the next 10 years
Let me know what’s working. Because it isn’t. Your GM is one of the worst in the game trying to compete while rebuilding. Didn’t work for the Mariners. Your analytical “genius” is going to disappoint you. Ex-Oakland execs usually do.
Again, 72-70 since May of last year. Unloaded a heavy Melancon contract for notable prospects, acquired a top prospect for nothing but some $, turned reclamation projects in Dyson and Pomeranz into prospects. How exactly is he “one of the worst in the game”? He inherited a dumpster fire and has turned them into a .500 club in one year. That’s impressive. The giants are so far below their normal spending capacity right now, j expect them to go heavy in free agency this offseason and compete in 2021.