TRADE! Twins Swap Bullpen Arms With Marlins, Acquire Dylan Floro for Jorge López
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- The Minnesota Twins start this year’s trade deadline moves by dealing away one of the pieces they acquired last trade deadline. Jorge Lopez’s disappointing Twins tenure comes to an end as he’s sent to Miami for Marlins reliever Dylan Floro. It won’t be the biggest move of this year’s deadline but it’s pretty interesting. You don’t see many trades where Major Leaguers are being dealt for Major Leaguers, there’s usually a prospect involved. Here’s a look into Floro and some of my thoughts on the deal.
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Shaking things up a little bit when it’s not working is never a bad thing we’ll see how it pans out
I know nothing about the Marlins other than one guy that brings a tear to my peepers. Stats show that the Twins may be a slightly better fielding team, but not enough to know for sure, and I also don't know what the Marlins may have changed over the past couple of months. I wonder how much clubhouse chemistry has to do with this? That may be the positive (but I hate to say it since I have no idea what was going on). Over all, I can't see how it can hurt. Win Twins!
Im not sure it has much to do with chemistry. Seeing the teams videos and everything it seems like their vibe is pretty good, but its definitely a possibility. I think its more to do with the defense and also the park they're playing in. Loan depot is the perfect place for arraez to play, because it is a bigger field. Correa is also probably the best defensive shortstop and i imagine a lot of floros groundballs that would either trickle into the outfield or most infield hits become outs simply because of correas range and arm.
That groundball profile might be helped by better infield defense with the twins as compared to the marlins
@mrx7181 why not? Aren't they above average?
Should’ve read the comments before I said the same thing😂
@@mrx7181 Correa at shortstop alone is a big plus, that’s the most important spot in the infield
I think this is a change of scenery trade for both players. I really wish Lopez the best, he's genuinely a really nice person who just couldn't catch a break. He has great pitches but they just kept finding bats.
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Two guys that are having a tough season are changing teams. Maybe it will click for both of them and they both will have better 2nd halves.
love the trade. you’re giving away a pitcher (lopez) who has had one half of really good relief pitching (last year, orioles) who has been bad himself this year for a historically good guy who has been fairy unlucky this year. hopefully our infield can back him up. very unlucky on his sinker, fastball, and slider aswell this year. another great trade by falvey.
Hope having Correa in the infield can help him not to mention we got a pretty good outfield on defense
Remember Arreaz is in that infield. That hurts any pitchers ground ball rate.
Maybe the Twins defense can help Floro out. The K and BB %s are the same as last year but the whip and babip jump could be due to a poor defense in Miami. Still more of a salary dump than a get
Lopez was an enigma to me. He seemed to have good stuff but failed miserably in the bullpen. Sometimes trades like this one work out well for both teams. I sure hope so because the Twins gave up a lot of pitching prospects to get Lopez and so far that trade looks lopsided in favor of the Orioles
Ok they got their lower level pitcher now go get a scott Barlow or Bednar and with theibar and Stewart hopefully coming back in august they will have a strong bullpen
Seems they didn't feel confidant they could return Lopez to his stellar 2022 first half form given he is still controllable via arbitration for 2 more years, whereas Floro will be a FA this offseason. The ground ball percentage will be interesting given Julien's defensive limitations and Polanco moving to third. Maybe making it easier to find roster slots on the 2024, 40man roster.. we have a glut of players around 23-24' years of age that probably need to be rule 5 protected this offseason. (am assuming they will protect canterino while he recovers from Tj surgery like last offseason).
It’ll be interesting to see how the infield develops because Royce Lewis will also return at some point.
I like this trade a lot. They went with the allstar reliever route last year with lopez and it didnt work out. I think the defense and not pitching in loan depot are both going to help out and the thing that stood out most to me is the homeruns allowed in his CAREER being only about 2x wha tlopez has given up this year alone. I still think they should add more of the allstar type reliever, but when you already have a couple homerun prone pitchers in the pen its nice to add a guy that can get you a double play. I see him stepping in for gray when he walks the bases loaded or just in general.
Sometimes change just for change sake is adequate
Orioles must just have some magic they put into their pitchers. Lopez was dominating there, so we send struggling Canó to them and bam Canó is great and Lopez falls back to earth.
Cano is sinking like a stone. Lost the game for them last night
The trade is okay; the 'pen definitely needs more dependability. (Plan B is so flammable that a run of close games tends to wear out the Plan A peeps quickly.) If nothing else it makes the roster spot more fungible, so if Floro doesn't cut it they can move on. Until the bullpen talent level is good enough to threaten the spots of Moran and his ilk, it will remain a weakness, and probably the one with the fewest in-house solutions (and so the area of greatest need at the trade deadline).
Yeah, they don’t just need different opinions in the pen, which is all that this deal accomplished, they need more options. They need to add some established guys, this is more of a replacement. More work to be done.
Also on another note im not trading for pitchers from baltimore again for a while. They turned lopez and cano into allstars and whether they're just that good or something between how they and the twins do something doesnt translate.
Does the front office have the Marlins and Reds on auto-dial? This puts a nice cap on last year's humiliating trade.
Can’t really get worse than Lopez this season so it will have to work
This bullpen needs some veteran savvy. Baloz and Moran can’t be relied on in a pennant race IMO. Love to see Thielbar and Keuchel back up.
I heard they may try to trade Keuchel. Have you heard anything about that?
Is there a reason, and especially moving forward a reason to be concerned, in terms of us continuously getting absolutely worked by trades? Is it a scouting issue? What do you think? I am one of those that think the Lopez/Arraez swap was fine but that is seemingly one that most still question and not one that was a runaway winner for the Twins.
I haven’t actually done this, but I bet their overall trade history is pretty even. Most of the reason for that was how good the Joe Ryan trade was. They definitely had a bad deadline last year.
obviously he pitched better when the shift was legal.
Now trade Buxton and pagan for two good bullpen arms and two top prospects and roll the dice!
What did they give up for lopez?
Yennier Cano, Cade Povich, Juan Nunez and Juan Rojas.
@TomFroemming basically just scrubs right?
Ok I just looked and not scrubs... still young though so who knows if they will stay good
We got screwed again
GOOD! I've hated Moran out of the Pen. Unreliable garbage. Or did I mean Lopez? 🤔
Get him out and replace him with LITERALLY anyone else.
Even if Lopez turns it around I wouldn’t trust he can remain consistent. If you look at his major league career his really good stats consist of a very small sample size. He’s mostly been mediocre at best.
Yeah, and if you want to go by track record, Floro appears to be a way safer bet.
Love it. Get Lopez our of here. He hasent done ANYTHING since being here. Floro cant be as bad.