Trade: [ATL/CWS] Aaron Bummer for Mike Soroka, Jared Shuster, Nicky Lopez, Braden Schewmake, and Riley Gowens

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[Marc the Habs Fan]

The old 5 for 1 trade for a reliever with a 6 ERA.

 

[Unholy Diver]

The old 5 for 1 trade for a reliever with a 6 ERA.

Maybe just looking to open a few roster spots on the 40 man?

 

[BobColesNasalCavity]

Didn’t Goins just become the infield coach for the Angels?

 

[AtlantaWhaler]

The old 5 for 1 trade for a reliever with a 6 ERA.

Maybe just looking to open a few roster spots on the 40 man?

That's the right answer. While the Braves are hoping to get the Bummer from a couple seasons ago when he had a 3 ERA, this was mainly to open up roster space heading into hot stove.

For the White Sox, the prize is probably Shewmake who had a great spring last year and a decent season in AAA. Soroka is the biggest name but he's washed. Schuster had several chances to get into the rotation, but failed. Lopez was a really good bench guy, but is that. Bench-energy.

 

[Kronwalled55]

Braves really didn't give up as much as people think.

-Shewmake is an average hitter with pretty good defense. I've watched a ton of minor league games and I've never been a fan of his vision at the plate.
-Shuster is not a strikeout pitcher, but also not a ground-ball pitcher. His stuff gets hit around a lot.
-Soroka never got the sinker working like he did before the surgeries. Leaves some bad pitches up in the zone nowadays.
-Lopez is a solid bench player.

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

So Sox land

- Once promising young SP whose career was derailed by injury (Soroka)
- A young SP who struggled in his first prolonged ML experience last season (Shuster)
- A SP prospect from Libertyville who is longshot prospect (Gowens)
- A SS prospect who is good defensively but lousy hitter (Shewmake)
- A bench utility IF who has several years of ML experience (Lopez)

Pretty happy with this

Bummer is bum and I am glad never having to watch him again

For some reason became overrated/hyped by media despite him constantly shitting the bed in big moments

 

[Mrfenn92]

Good luck to Aaron

 

[Prominence Problem]

Didn’t Goins just become the infield coach for the Angels?

I was surprised to see his name in this trade. Didn't think he was still playing.

 

[Unholy Diver]

I was surprised to see his name in this trade. Didn't think he was still playing.

Yeah he changed his name from Ryan Goins to Riley Gowens to try to throw everyone off

 

[Prominence Problem]

Yeah he changed his name from Ryan Goins to Riley Gowens to try to throw everyone off

My bad

 

[Unholy Diver]

My bad

You weren't actually missing anything though, Ryan Goins hadn't been in the MLB since 2020, though he did kick around triple-A thru 2022

 

[AtlantaWhaler]

Yeah he changed his name from Ryan Goins to Riley Gowens to try to throw everyone off

"This guys is dead"

"Well, scratch him off, then"