Promote

P Fernando Romero
P Adam Pluto
3B/OF Hunter Dozier

Demote

P Tony Zych


Place P Matt Shoemaker on 60 day DL

trades

P Paul Blackburn 440K (arb thru 2022)
OF Jake Cave
2018 7th rd pick
2018 10-20 rd picks

trades

P Aaron Loup 2M (FA at the end of the year)
Arquímedes Gamboa
KJ Harrison
Keegan Thompson

Angels approve. I didn’t want the Astros to have any excuses this year so I decided to trade away a SP as well.

Trading away the cheap and controllable Blackburn does make me a bit weary as despite his lackluster peripherals he has followed up his career 3.22 MiLB ERA with a 3.21 ERA in his first 10 MLB starts. He might just be one of those guys who finds a way to outperform his underlying stats.

It’s worth the risk for me though to get a few decent prospects who I think might be poised to break out. Also needed a warm body to fill a vacant RP slot which Loup does.

Thanks to Vik for the lengthy but enjoyable negotiation on this one 

Commish promotes the following players to KC 40man to make roster legal

CF Michael Fish
C Luis Torrens

Fantraxed

In order to make the roster legal the commish promotes the following players to Mariners 40man

C Trevor Brown
RF Jabari Blash
OF James Jones
1B Jordy Lara
P Chad Kuhl

Fantraxed

1 yr 400K