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San Diego Padres acquire Chicago White Sox ace Dylan Cease
View Date:2024-12-23 16:54:55
PHOENIX — The San Diego Padres, who dramatically slashed their payroll from a year ago after being baseball’s biggest disappointment, aren’t going to go quietly off into the night after all.
The Padres acquired Chicago White Sox ace Dylan Cease on Wednesday, giving up reliever Steven Wilson and three of their top 10 prospects just as the Padres were preparing to take off from Phoenix to Seoul Korea for their two-game series March 20-21 against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The White Sox will receive pitching prospects Drew Thorpe (No. 5) and Jairo Iriarte (No. 8) and outfielder Samuel Zavala (No. 7). Thorpe is considered the prize of the group with a fabulous changeup.
The Padres dumped nearly $90 million in payroll, trading All-Star outfielder Juan Soto to the New York Yankees and letting Cy Young winner Blake Snell walk away without making an offer. But now they'll have a front-line rotation of Yu Darvish, Joe Musgrove, Cease and Michael King.
The White Sox let teams know all winter that Cease was available but kept waiting for someone to meet their price of at least three top prospects. They were engaged in talks since November with the Yankees, who refused to offer prized outfield prospect Spencer Jones. They also were in talks with his week with the Texas Rangers.
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Cease, who is earning $8 million and won't be a free agent until after 2025, was 7-9 with a 4.58 ERA last season. He finished second in American League Cy Young voting in 2022, going 14-8 with a 2.20 ERA. He also has been durable, not missing a start in his career.
The news was a huge blow to the Yankees, who badly wanted Cease and made a new proposal to the White Sox this week. The Yankees are expected to be without ace Gerrit Cole for the first four to six weeks of the season with elbow concerns. He’s scheduled to be examined Thursday by noted orthopedic surgeon Neal ElAttrache in Los Angeles to determine the extent of the damage.
The Yankees could turn to another former White Sox pitcher, Mike Clevinger, who remains a free agent. Clevinger went 9-9 with a 3.77 ERA in 24 starts for the White Sox last season.
Snell and Jordan Montgomery remain the top two pitchers on the free-agent market.
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