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Brewers Trade Clayton Andrews To Yankees

By Steve Adams | February 14, 2024 at 1:10pm CDT

The Yankees have acquired left-hander Clayton Andrews from the Brewers in exchange for minor league righty Joshua Quezada, the teams announced Wednesday. New York transferred righty Scott Effross, who’s recovering from December back surgery (that was just announced today), to the 60-day injured list. Milwaukee designated Andrews for assignment last week.

Andrews, 27, made his big league debut with Milwaukee in 2023, though things didn’t go as he’d hoped. He pitched just 3 1/3 innings but was torched for ten earned runs on the strength of three homers in that brief cup of coffee.

Ugly as that tiny sample was, Andrews had much more encouraging results in the minors. He spent the bulk of the 2023 campaign with the Brewers’ Triple-A affiliate in Nashville, pitching to a tidy 2.53 ERA in 57 frames out of the bullpen. Andrews fanned a hefty 31.1% of his opponents in Nashville and posted a solid 45.7% grounder rate, but his 13% walk rate was an eyesore that’ll clearly need improvement if he’s to carve out a big league role for himself.

A 17th-round pick by the Brewers back in 2018, Andrews still has a pair of minor league option years remaining, which will give the Yankees some flexible depth in the bullpen. He’s a three-pitch lefty who averaged 94.8 mph on his heater in 2023 and also mixed in a changeup and slider. Andrews’ changeup is considered his best pitch, hence the reverse splits he showed in ’23; righties hit him at just a .215/.312/.349 clip while fellow lefties managed a healthier .233/.337/.438 slash.

As for the Brewers’ end of the swap, they’ll pick up a 19-year-old righty who’s entering just his second professional season. Quezada signed with the Yankees out of Nicaragua during last year’s international amateur free agency period. He spent the season with the Yankees’ short-season affiliate in the Dominican Summer League, where he pitched 46 1/3 innings of 3.69 ERA ball. The 6’2″, 185-pound Quezada fanned exactly one quarter of his opponents and issued walks at a 9.4% clip. Quezada wasn’t one of the team’s high-profile signings on last year’s international market and didn’t rank among the Yankees’ top 30 prospects, but he turned in a nice debut campaign and will give the Brewers a lottery-ticket arm to stash in the lower levels of their system.

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46 Comments

  1. andyger63

    1 year ago

    Just what we need — a pitcher with a 27.00 ERA last year. Get Snell now!

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    • Salzilla

      1 year ago

      Dude pitched just over three innings last year and gave up three hrs. Shouldn’t be the biggest cause of outrage, lol.

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    • 178iq

      1 year ago

      He’s a 2.50 pitcher in AAA, not so sure how that will translate. Likely a mop up guy unless he proves himself. And if this season is like last season, Yankees are going to need a lot of mop up guys.

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  2. angryyankeesfan1

    1 year ago

    Andrews was somehow worse than Krook. That’s crazy.

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  3. Yankee Clipper

    1 year ago

    This was *not* the trade I had in mind when they DFAd Krook.

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    • Coys Bacon

      1 year ago

      The Yankees have had such great success picking up scrap heap bullpen arms from all over on the cheap. That pitched badly elsewhere or barely at all and have turned then into useful arms. Please tell us who is responsible for this recent success so I can tell Reds management. It’s not that easy to pitch in Yankee stadium either. Shorter RF dimensions. Spacious CF/LRF area that you need prime Paul Blair to handle that ground.

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    • HatlessPete

      1 year ago

      He’s matt krook but two years younger! Cashman playing 4d chess rn lol.

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      • Yankee Clipper

        1 year ago

        Lol, Yes, classic Cashman 4d chess. Always a move ahead of the pack! We are soooo lucky to have his genius guiding our team……

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        • HatlessPete

          1 year ago

          Too far clip! Do we just spit on two years of relative youth and an extra option year or two nowadays? Is the smallest of incremental, lateral roster upgrades not still an upgrade? We mortals cannot presume to understand the galaxy brain at work here! For shame lol

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    • This one belongs to the Reds

      1 year ago

      This was not the trade you were looking for?

      Jedi mind trick?

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      • Yankee Clipper

        1 year ago

        I tried, Reds, but I must’ve caused a disturbance in the force….

        I was looking for the obvious one: Matt Krook for Dylan Cease in a one-for-one swap!

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        • HatlessPete

          1 year ago

          It was as if a million journeyman relievers cried out in fear and then silence.

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        • Yankee Clipper

          1 year ago

          Haha! You had me at “lateral roster upgrade”

          Classic!

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  4. TrillionaireTeamOperator

    1 year ago

    I am assuming they see something in his technical approach or peripherals that the Yankees training staff believe they can adjust and retrain into an effective sub-5 ERA reliever.

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  5. dhonk

    1 year ago

    Really liked Andrew’s as a fringe prospect. Throws reasonably hard for 5’6” or so, supposed to have a plus changeup, plays a strong defensive CF, and hits for solid contact. Given the universal DH, his defense and offense lost the versatility that would’ve benefited a National League team prior. But a creative team might figure out a way to use him as a reliever, pinch runner, etc..

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  6. filihok

    1 year ago

    Projected by FG DC for a 4.43 FIP in 2024

    I maintain this one piece of information conveys more information about Andrews” performance than everything you’ve written in the article.

    I understand you have to cater to rationally illiterate fans, though.

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    • A Raul Cassanova

      1 year ago

      Bud flipped me off once coming out of Gilles. He couldn’t decide which lane he wanted to be in so I gave him a friendly honk. He gave me a friendly one finger salute back.

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      • filihok

        1 year ago

        ARC

        Why you responded to me with this, I have no idea

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  7. harrycarey

    1 year ago

    Brewers so deep in pitching that they can afford to take a Yankee prospect. Somewhere Bud Selig is smiling while eating lunch at A custard joint

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  8. MLB Top 100 Commenter

    1 year ago

    Yankees now have Clayton Andrews and Clayton Beeter.

    Maybe just a small case of Clayton “K” envy of the Dodgers?

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    • vtadave

      1 year ago

      Clayton Richard next.

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      • ChetLemonaid

        1 year ago

        Or Clayton Bigsby…

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        • HatlessPete

          1 year ago

          Blind dudes can pitch baseballs now? What a time to be alive…

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    • Kevin Illyanovich Rasputin Kubusheskie

      1 year ago

      Dodgers also have coach Clayton McCullough

      Reply
  9. Judge Judy

    1 year ago

    That 2.85 ERA in AAA talent is somewhere in there. NY will harness it as they always do.

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    • TGH31

      1 year ago

      I hate to say it but the Brewers tend to harness the majority of the bullpen arms they have. From cast-offs, homegrown talents, etc. This guy was awful in his small sample size. Much like Ethan Small it was truly consistently bad location from an average stuff pitcher. Were not talking missing spots by a hair, were talking absolute meatballs pitch after pitch. If the Yankees are able to harness anything good for them but this guy is a likely lost cause. Confidence shot early with average stuff rarely ends up well.

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      • filihok

        1 year ago

        TGH

        Whom to trust

        The major league front office or the random internet commenter

        Tough to say

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        • TGH31

          1 year ago

          I would trust the brewers front office a lot more than the Yankees, when it comes to pitching evaluation. Its not the Yankees have been developing a ton of pitching talent over the past decade+. Meanwhile the Brewers are making cast-off after cast-off into elite BP arms. If he isnt good enough for Milwaukee you can safely assume its a lost cause. The brewers turned cast off Hoby Milner into, statistically, the best Left handed relief pitcher in the NL not named Hader. And not a single Yankees fan has any clue who this great pitcher is.

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        • TGH31

          1 year ago

          And I am by no means saying the Yankees haven’t had some success developing cast offs or homegrown talent but not remotely close to the brewers. The brewers have been doing it for years. The only way they can contend. Can’t imagine if they had an extra 100 to 120 million to spend. They certainly wouldn’t be fighting for the wild card, missing out on most big name free agents, and forcing to try to buy pitching to make it work.

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        • deej

          1 year ago

          Are you the Brewers GM? Or his wife?

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        • TGH31

          12 months ago

          Apparently the random internet commenter. Andrews is junk.

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      • YankeesBleacherCreature

        1 year ago

        You concluded all of that from his whopping 3.1 IP body of work on his major league debut?

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  10. whyhayzee

    1 year ago

    How can you pitch 3 and 1/3 innings and have a WAR of -0.8? That’s like -350 if he pitched every inning for a full season!

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    • cwizzy6

      1 year ago

      It was a ROUGH 3 1/3…

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  11. Joirgro 2

    1 year ago

    As a Brewer fan, I would have settled for a bag of balls. Andrews is utterly terrible.

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    • filihok

      1 year ago

      Joir

      “As a Brewer fan, I would have settled for a bag of balls. ”

      A reason you’re a fan and not in the front offics.

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      • Schlitz

        1 year ago

        He was 6-0 in the minors with 5 saves, 74 Ks in 59 IP with a 2.53 ERA. He got shelled in 3.1 innings in his major league stint. Usually I hear” it was a small sample”. I remember the 2007 Brewers gave up on Grant Balfour after he gave up 6 runs in 2 innings in 2007. Next year he was 1.54 ERA with Tampa Bay Rays and 12 saves as a setup man.

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        • TGH31

          1 year ago

          That Balfour deal was mutually beneficial. As great as CC was down the stretch in 2008 the brewers needed what McClung offered in a swing role when injuries hit. Much like most rays/brewers deal it was a win/win. Balfour netted what the brewers needed at the time. They certainly didn’t give up on Balfour like they did Andrews (though the crew loves the low ball fliers. Last one that truly worked out was Freddy peralta in the Adam Lind deal)

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      • Joirgro 2

        1 year ago

        I saw him pitch several times, did you?

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    • YankeesBleacherCreature

      1 year ago

      Well you got a quesadilla instead.

      Reply
  12. LordD99

    1 year ago

    One team, the Yankees, building arm depth for 2024. Another team, the Brewers building arm depth for their next contention window in 2028.

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  13. Mrski

    1 year ago

    He throws batting practice. George continues to spin faster and faster

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    • mlbnyyfan

      1 year ago

      One of several horrible trades Cashman has done recently. Definitely near the top with Montas and Gallo

      Reply
  14. yanks2323

    1 year ago

    They will DFA him by 11pm tonight…Book it!

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    • melfman1

      1 year ago

      Wrong… try again.

      Reply
  15. MLBTR needs to hire editors

    1 year ago

    Adams’ writing continues to be ugly. “Ugly as that tiny sample was” is NOT PROPER ENGLISH. You can just leave “as” out at the beginning of the sentence. Grammar isn’t optional.

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