Padres make LAST SECOND Deal...

The Padres make another sneaky good trade as this player has been acquired after the deadline. Someone you probably don't know, but who is he? Is he any good? Should we be excited? Let's talk about it. Hi, welcome back to another episode of Padres Digest with your host, Andrew. Today, more trade deadline stuff. A name we missed because we were watching AJ Preller's post-conference, press conference, whatever. But this is someone I've heard the name for or I've heard of him before, but i don't really know much about him but i actually don't hate it that's not great there's not gonna blow anyone away but it's not bad we'll talk about it in a sec before we get you deep into the video though please subscribe as always follow us on x instagram facebook padres digest uh and thank you to those who are still on my stream i've been here for like 80 years i am exhausted uh but let's jump into it right so here is the move so we acquired Hart and Stratton for andrew moore who's andrew moore i don't know should actually pretty much tell you everything you need to know about this player but to make room for him uh jason adam was transferred to the 60 day il so not great but stratton will be optioned to triple a el paso but you know you gotta do what you gotta do when we haven't seen jason adam in a while and he probably won't be back till late august earliest uh but who is he so actually let me put this on the other one hold on i can do that real quickly should i have paused this yes i should have did i no i did not uh oh god okay hold on let me fix it real quick okay hi sorry uh yeah i didn't prop very well as you can probably tell that's okay so Hunter Stratton, 29 years old, not young not old uh but he's a guy with really bad ERA so far in the majors but he's more of a minor leaguer so far and he's at pre-arbitration so we can have him for a long time not not a rental uh but he's not bad but not great so hard hit percentile he is good at suppressing contact slider is his best out pitch but he's only pitched like 3.1 innings this year so small sample size the swinging strike percentage means he's not a swing and miss arm elite at limiting hard contact we saw that already uh slider is a real weapon 31.7 whiff, .173 expected weighted on base average across all levels this year comfortably his best pitch but it's not a swing and miss profile otherwise the 28th percentile whiff rate, 25th percentile swinging strike percentage at AAA. Command is a question too, 37th percentile walk rate at AAA. His MLB sample size is too far too small to draw real conclusions from. The transaction log tells its own story. DFA'd by Atlanta in June, traded to Pittsburgh, DFA'd again in August. Two organizations have already moved on from him. But yeah, he's cheap. He's a nobody. And that's fine. What this move is, more than anything, is depth. in the bullpen because you know we use the ever-living heck out of our bullpen so i don't expect much but expect him to at least save the arms of our bullpen maybe once or twice this year and then DFA again uh again he didn't cost as much so whatever right uh but you can see the rest of the stats he does have some pretty good stuff uh 105 104 103 100 105 104 so really good stuff uh but his strike percentage isn't great whiffs aren't great besides the slider uh or the sweeper i guess so it's he's fine he's fine like we said he's pre-arbitration so you know we can have him for a very long time i have a bigger story here is the fact that jason adam is put to the 60 day il but yeah again don't expect this move to be like the game changing bullpen piece like he's just fine and i think his move is really the how do i word it like the encompassing feeling of what this trade deadline was it wasn't anyone too flashy like casey mize is really good but he's not like flashy like big name like he was outshined a lot by tarik skuba uh so i think the moves we made were a good compliment to what we needed a bat would have been nice don't get me wrong a bat would have been super nice uh but this just seems like a solid backup plan if anything like not a plan b but like a plan c and it's not like this guy can't be good maybe with a few ruben niebla sessions with the really good stuff that he has like i showed you guys on here he could actually be somebody and i mean think of like jeremiah estrada he got dfa'd when we uh got him and then now he's i can still say one of the better pitchers on our bullpen i know he's falling off a little bit but he's still relatively really good so i i don't i don't want to say you should write him off maybe the same vein you could think of him like an Alex excuse me an Alex Jacob type where Alex Jacob's only used when he need him but i'm pretty sure he's out of options now we don't want to release him so like a backup a backup Alex Jacob maybe is the best way to describe it but i i i do see the potential in it but i don't know how many resources we will be willing to waste in order to make sure he can be good because he'll be he'll be here for a long time right like he'll be here until uh pre-arb so like 31 2030 2030 2031 so like he'll be here for a while and he'll only be like what 30 something so yeah i i don't know i don't love it i don't hate it i'm kind of indifferent about it but i i don't think it was anything too offensive that people should be mad about it and be like why would you waste your time to get Hunter Stratton when you could have used that time to get a bat like i don't think it's like that like and obviously he looked at a lot of bats like you look at Trevor Larnick Alec Burleson uh Lars Nootbaar before he got traded like it's not like he didn't try but i don't know this is just a it's a safe move it's a safe move and i don't think you should look at it any more than what it is is a safe move so don't judge him because he looks like he's bad because he wasn't supposed to like save us he's just another guy he's just another guy and you know what i will never complain about having another guy in this bullpen uh but yeah i don't know we'll see we'll see anything i'm missing no also uh if you're wondering who andrew moore is i have no idea i'll look for you give me a sec okay really quickly here's andrew moore then uh now in triple a affiliate but a 3.46 ERA is actually not bad he is 26 yeah right there i tried doing the math but the age is right there i'm stupid but i mean he's fine kind of the same thing as hunter stratton fine he wasn't great last year but he has had some good years i don't know if he's ever been in the mlb no he's a minor leaguer career minor leaguer probably why i've never heard of him but oh well you do what you can do so what do you guys think oops let me get rid of that so what do you guys think about this draft or draft the trade deadline overall i mean we got casey mize we got robbie ray and now we got this random dude we didn't get a bat which sucks but i think overall we made a safe solid deadline i will say it might screw us later next year because we're gonna lose a lot of pitchers next year because of uh contracts and rentals but i don't know i i am okay with it i'm happy with it i'm glad we didn't sell the farm like we did last season like we still kept a lot of the good pieces we have yes we do have good pieces so yeah hunter Stratton will he be good will he be bad i have no idea but the point is is that it's more stability and what we need on what we all what do i always say we need on this team more stability so you guys let me know your comments down below what you think of these players uh please subscribe as always follow us on X Instagram Facebook Padres Digest thank you to our channel members please join for awesome cool stuff if you would like and have a fantastic rest of your day go 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