An offseason of Dylan Stop rumors has come to an finish. The White Sox are buying and selling their right-handed ace, and his touchdown spot is a shock.
San Diego.
The Padres are near buying Stop, trumping the Texas Rangers by agreeing to half with a steep package deal of younger expertise, in accordance with major-league sources briefed on the discussions.
The return isn’t but identified. However the commerce, first reported by ESPN, will quantity to the newest beautiful transfer by Padres president of baseball operations A.J. Preller, who is likely one of the sport’s greatest eyes for younger expertise, and infrequently keen to commerce it.
Stop, 28, will be part of a San Diego rotation that already consists of Yu Darvish, Joe Musgrove and Michael King. Jhony Brito and Matt Waldron now determine to battle for the fifth spot. King and Brito have been two of the gamers the Padres acquired from the New York Yankee within the commerce for Juan Soto.
The defending World Sequence champion Rangers additionally have been deep in discussions for Stop as they await the returns of three injured pitchers — Jacob deGrom, Max Scherzer and Tyler Mahle — round or after the All-Star break.
The White Sox in latest days had scouted each the Rangers and Padres’ techniques closely. Stop’s attraction, past his pitching ability, is that he’s beneath membership management for 2 extra seasons. He’ll earn $8 million in 2024, and is once more eligible for arbitration in 2025. King, too, is beneath management via ’25, whereas Musgrove is signed via ’27 and Darvish via ’28.
In 2022, Stop’s breakthrough season, he went 14-8 with a 2.20 ERA, ending second to Houston’s Justin Verlander within the American League Cy Younger Award voting. Stop wasn’t as efficient in ’23, going 7-9 with a 4.58 ERA. However executives across the league proceed to view him as a possible ace.
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