July 30: General manager Dave Stewart tells Nick Piecoro of the Arizona Republic (Twitter link) that he’s had a deal which he believed to be close to completion before “the tide changed.” MLB.com’s Steve Gilbert tweets that Stewart was referencing the Hudson trade.
July 28: 2:33pm: The D-backs don’t expect to finalize a Hudson swap today but are getting heavy interest from three teams, Nightengale further tweets.
2:28pm: Despite the fact that the Mets have been linked to Hudson on occasion this summer, they’re not the team nearing a deal for him, tweets Joel Sherman of the New York Post. USA Today’s Bob Nightengale tweets that three teams have been “aggressively” pursuing Hudson, though he doesn’t specify which teams.
2:13pm: The Diamondbacks are nearing a trade of right-hander Daniel Hudson, reports MLB.com’s Steve Gilbert (on Twitter). The team with which Arizona is negotiating remains unreported.
Hudson, 29, was a key piece to the D-backs’ bullpen in 2015 — his first season back from his second career Tommy John surgery — posting a 3.86 ERA in 67 2/3 innings with 9.4 K/9, 3.3 BB/9, a 43.2 percent ground-ball rate and a heater that averaged a strong 96.1 mph. However, this season has been a struggle, as he’s logged a 6.08 ERA with 7.5 K/9 and 3.7 BB/9 in his 37 innings. His ground-ball rate is largely the same, and his heater is down just about a half mile from last year, but Hudson has struggled enormously with men on base, stranding just 52.5 percent of the baserunners he’s allowed/inherited.
All that said, Hudson is still reasonably young with a hard fastball and fairly promising peripherals to go along with a modest $2.7MM salary. He has about $974K of that sum remaining through season’s end, making him an affordable roll of the dice for a club in need of some upside at the back of its bullpen.
My guess is the Nationals.
Wait, a sell-low move by the dbacks? I’m confused..
lol
It’s either sell low now, or getting nothing for him in the off season
I thought he was a free agent in the offseason?
That’s what he means.
Dodgers
No GM will trade into their own division
Right, the Dodgers didn’t send Kemp and Federowicz to the Padres for Grandal, Eflin and Wieland.
Don’t confuse him with facts!
Aw, sorry.
I’m pretty sure that if for example, the Dodgers offered the best package fo Carlos Gonzalez, that the Rockies would trade him to LA.
Happens all the time.
Any GM who doesn’t consider trading within their team’s division is a fool. The Rockies traded Scutaro to the Giants in 2012. He was a key piece in their World Series run. But I think we don’t see many trades within a division because the asking price tends to be higher.
Ill guess Pirates
I agree.. a ‘buy low’ candidate.. fits how the pirates due business.
Don’t know if I like it but.. seems to fit.
It’s to a team in the nl east or the giants
Is that a guess or did you see that somewhere? Just curious because I want to read that article or tweet or whatever.
Just a guess lol
Cardinals? there’s an article below this saying they’re looking for relievers
This seems like a very Cardinals move
I agree. I don’t expect to see them do a whole lot. They just don’t have the top prospects to give to pull off much more. And Hudson shouldn’t take a whole lot. They need to hold on to Reyes, obviously, Kelly, Weaver, Tilson. I don’t think Tilson is a major prospect, but with the struggles in CF and Holliday possibly a FA after the season LF could be open too with a weak FA class. I say trade Wong, value is low but Garcia has proven more valuable. Trade Adams. Moss is better and should be back soon. Adams needs to be in the AL. I dont think either of them would go to AZ, but in other trades. to get something, maybe Hochaver or something.
Right
Yes it does. I’m thinking they get Hudson from the D-Backs and Jim Johnson from the Braves. Neither will cost much prospect-wise and both look like decent bounce-back candidates.
Hudson isn’t considered a low enough hanging fruit from the Cardinal Brass.
my thoughts as well!
Given the Rosenthal story earlier today on this site, I’m projecting the Cardinals. And by projecting, I mean submitting a wild ass guess, the same as the rest of us.
I will guess the three teams as the Dodgers, Marlins, and Mets. Although the Cubs might be in on him (the Cubs are hard to predict LOL).
The Pirates are targeting Shelby Miller: timesonline.com/sports/pirates/diamondbacks-miller…
Mariners. This is totally a Dipoto move.
It’s the TB Rays sending E. Longoria to the DBacks
um. .. I can’t tell if you are serious or not. Longoria would have a lot more value than Hudson.
If the Rays trade Longo, they can kiss the 6000 fans per night that come to their joke of a ballpark
Goodbye***
Macaulay firing on all cylinders tonight!
I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the Cardinals. They always pull off the “I didn’t see that one coming” move
Since your about the sixth person predicting Cardinals, I think this would be a “saw that one coming” move.
I hope Pittsburgh
Here in Arizona they are saying it is the Mariners, Indians, and Nationals that are in.
Mariners might be in on Hudson; fits GM Dipoto’s profile for a pitcher: High k/BB ratio, fewer hits than innings pitched, reasonable ERA and WHIP. Low cost, low risk, potential high upside. Free agent, so no automatic burden on next years budget.. Maybe trade DJ Petereson, with M’s also getting a younger lower minor league prospect.
Indians already have a Hudson in Zach McCallister
Please don’t be Detroit. Rondon can do as well, so it’s not an improvement.
I wouldn’t mind if the price wasn’t bad. He’s an upgrade over Lowe!
definitely getting a Cardinals vibe on this one….. ugh.
As a fellow alumna of the fine institution known as Old Dominion University, I’d like to see him in DC. However, I would expect that they are fishing bigger fish than Mr Hudson