{"id":17784,"date":"2022-08-02T16:06:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T20:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=17784"},"modified":"2022-08-02T16:17:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T20:17:18","slug":"juan-and-josh-are-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=17784","title":{"rendered":"Juan (and Josh) are gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SotoJuan-2019ws-via-nypost.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SotoJuan-2019ws-via-nypost-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SotoJuan-2019ws-via-nypost-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SotoJuan-2019ws-via-nypost-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SotoJuan-2019ws-via-nypost-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SotoJuan-2019ws-via-nypost.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>hate to see him go, but you can&#8217;t argue with teh return.  Photo via NYpost<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, it had to happen. This is the required &#8220;hot take&#8221; post on the trade return the Nats got in exchange for sending two months of <strong>Josh Bell<\/strong> plus 2 full years of <strong>Juan Soto<\/strong> to the San Diego Padres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2022\/08\/report-padres-on-the-verge-of-acquiring-juan-soto.html\">Per mlbtraderumors<\/a>, which is doing a good job following everyone&#8217;s tweeting and reporting:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Padres get Bell, Soto<\/li><li>Nats get the following package (ranks per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/prospects\/padres\/\">MLBpipeline<\/a>)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>C.J. Abrams<\/strong> SS: Recently graduated from prospect status, but was San Diego&#8217;s #1 overall prospect heading into this season, and routinely considered a top 3-5 prospect in all of the majors.  1st Round pick in 2019 (6th overall), he&#8217;s in the majors at age 21 and somewhat struggling right now (.232\/.285\/.320).  But, the potential is clearly there.<\/li><li><strong>McKenzie<\/strong> <strong>Gore<\/strong> LHP (Starter): Graduated from prospect status in 2021.  Before graduating was San Diego&#8217;s #1 prospect and was rated as high as the #2 prospect in the entire sport.  1st rounder (3rd overall) in 2017, he&#8217;s 4-4 with a 4.50 ERA in his first year starting for San Diego.<\/li><li><strong>Robert Hassell<\/strong>, OF (CF): San Diego&#8217;s new #1 prospect with Abrams graduation, #21 overall.  A 2020 first rounder (8th overall), he&#8217;s in High-A and slashing .299\/.379\/.467.  This is a significant prospect, a true CF with power.<\/li><li><strong>James Wood<\/strong>, OF (corner): San Diego&#8217;s #3 prospect, #88 overall.  2021 2nd rounder, hails from Olney\/Rockville before moving to IMG to play his senior year.  He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milb.com\/player\/james-wood-695578\">destroyed complex ball<\/a> upon drafting last year and is similarly destroying Low-A ball this year (though, to be fair, its the California league, with a lot of parks at altitude).  He&#8217;s got an OPS north of 1.000 this year as a 19yr old in low-A, with 10 homers in 50 games.  wow.<\/li><li><strong>Jarlin Susana<\/strong>, a RHP starter: San Diego&#8217;s #14 prospect.  A 2022 IFA, listed by MLB as the top ranked pitcher in the class.  Signed for $1.7M.  He&#8217;s 18, and instead of going to DSL he&#8217;s in the Arizona complex league and is holding his own: 8 starts, 2.45 ERA.  <\/li><li><strong>Luke Voit<\/strong>, a Hosmer-replacement 1B\/DH type who slots into Bell&#8217;s old position and off-sets some salary (he makes $5.4M this year).  Interestingly, despite being 31 now, he&#8217;s still got two arb years left.  So its not a throw-away player.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Conclusion?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think this is a *fantastic* haul.  As I put in the comments before, they got two &#8220;as good as they get prospects&#8221; in Gore, Abrams, two top 100 prospects in Hassel, Wood, and a top IFA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, there&#8217;s risk in prospects.  You can go through each of these guys and hem and haw.  Abrams is struggling in the majors, Gore might need TJ, Wood is a project, Hassell might flame out, Susana is years away.  Yes, that&#8217;s the floor-centric viewpoint of all of these prospects.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I look more at what they were: three 1st rounders, a second rounder and their top IFA pick this year.  That&#8217;s called &#8220;gutting the system.&#8221;  I laugh at the hot takers who think this isn&#8217;t a big haul.  This is a huge portion of San Diego&#8217;s player development system for the last 5 years.  And now its ours.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome to the new world.  Imagine a rotation with Gore, Grey, Cavalli, Henry, and (hey we&#8217;re dreaming right) a healthy Strasburg?  Imagine an infield that goes House, Abrams, Garcia, and a veteran basher 1B\/DH type.  Imagine an outfield of Hassell and Woods in the corners and Vaquero in Center.   Or Green thrown in there.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>post publishing observation &#8230; the Nats may have to do some 40-man shuffling.  Bell\/Soto out so 38\/40 on the 40-man, but coming back are Gore and Abrams (on the 40-man) AND Voit.  The rest are non 40-man players &#8230; so they&#8217;ll have to make a move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it had to happen. This is the required &#8220;hot take&#8221; post on the trade return the Nats got in exchange for sending two months of Josh Bell plus 2 full years of Juan Soto to the San Diego Padres. Per mlbtraderumors, which is doing a good job following everyone&#8217;s tweeting and reporting: Padres get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natsgeneral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17784"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17790,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17784\/revisions\/17790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}