The Blue Jays are acquiring reliever Joakim Soria from the Diamondbacks, according to John Gambadoro of Arizona Sports 98.7 FM. The Jays will send a pair of players to be named later back to Arizona, according to the team. Outfielder Jonathan Davis was designated for assignment to open a spot for Soria.
Soria, 37, joins the ninth team of his career. A legendary closer in his first four seasons with the Royals back in 2007-10, Soria is now more of a useful depth piece. This year the veteran owns a 4.30 ERA, 24.8 K%, and 6.4 BB% in 29 1/3 innings. He lengthens a Blue Jays bullpen that also added Brad Hand, Adam Cimber, and Trevor Richards this summer. Blue Jays Executive Vice President, Baseball Operations & General Manager Ross Atkins saved his big splash for the rotation, acquiring Jose Berrios from the Twins for Austin Martin and Simeon Woods Richardson.
The Blue Jays, who return to the Rogers Centre in Toronto tonight for the first time in 670 days, are currently 4.5 games out of a wild card spot.
Good job, they needed this
Big Joaquin Benoit vibes
Bullpen will definitely look stronger now.
The entire deadline Jays added pitching! Let’s go on a run, so excited for Toronto’s opener. Hopefully we see Hand! The Royals have been playing better of late.
Talk to the Hand
How about a hard thrower instead of junk-ball pitchers like Hand and Soria?
Well take it….
Was hoping for 1 more bat still too
Does he raise the bull-pen floor?
He’s been average for a couple of years now. He makes it deeper …in experience, at least
He’s basically what LaTroy Hawkins was in ’15.
Considering that he replaces Chatwood, I’d say “yes”. I just don’t know how much that floor has been raised.
The bullpen will be stronger now!
Thanks for telling us about the return.
I know it doesn’t matter 1 iota. But I’d still like to know if it’s a roll of chew , or whatever.
Thanks for being patient.
I know I’m wasting my breath but there was perhaps 10-15 other trades that happened in the last hour
Two PTBNL according to the Dbacks Twitter account.
Vladdy and Biggio
Nice pick. Solid veteran with a long track record.
If only they could have grabbed Merrill Kelly as well.
Good move but why designate Davis? Why is Dolis still on the roster?
Well they have 4 OF’ers and Dickerson will soon be finishing his re-hab assignment so that will mean 5 guys for the OF
Being a Red Sox fan this Blue Jays team scares me. They can come back and quite frankly as the Yankees get Kluber and Severino back so can they. Boston plays Tampa 13 the next 30 games if Tampa and Boston split, the Blue Jays and Yankees will be right back in this.
Good on the Jays front office. Now it’s up to the players to step up and perform and win.