The Phillies are buying Noah Syndergaard from the Angels, in accordance with Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic. Mickey Moniak and one other prospect will head to the Angels, per Jayson Stark of The Athletic. Starks adds that the second prospect is outfielder Jadiel Sanchez.
With the Phillies within the thick of a playoff race and the Angels nicely out of it, they make good commerce companions. In truth, that is the second deal of the day between the Angels and Phillies, after they already swapped
Brandon Marsh for Logan O’Hoppe.
Syndergaard, 29, was a wonderful pitcher for the Mets from 2015 to 2019, with a 3.31 ERA in that point together with a 49.1% ground-ball charge, 26.4% strikeout charge and 5.6% stroll charge. Sadly, Tommy John surgical procedure worn out his 2020 and nearly all of his 2021, with “Thor” returning to pitch simply two innings late within the season.
Regardless of nearly no motion for 2 years, the Mets prolonged an $18.4M qualifying supply to Syndergaard, which he turned down. The Angels determined to wager on his earlier monitor document and signed him to a one-year, $21M deal, additionally surrendering a draft choose within the course of.
Syndergaard was having a high quality season for the Halos, however not fairly as much as his earlier requirements. By 15 begins and 80 innings on the yr, he has a 3.83 ERA, 44.9% strikeout charge, 6.5% stroll charge however much-diminished 18.9% strikeout charge. His velocity isn’t fairly as robust as earlier than and that strikeout dip is critical, however he’s nonetheless filling up the strike zone and conserving runs off the board.
For the Phillies, their rotation has been with out Zach Eflin for the previous month or so as a result of a knee harm, and he was transferred to the 60-day injured listing earlier Tuesday. Syndergaard will take his spot within the rotation subsequent to Aaron Nola, Zack Wheeler, Kyle Gibson and Ranger Suarez.
For the Angels, Moniak basically turns into a alternative for Marsh, who was dealt to the Phillies earlier Tuesday. The primary general choose of the 2016 draft, he hasn’t fairly lived as much as his prospect hype up to now. In 162 profession video games over the previous three seasons, he’s slashed simply .129/.214/.172. Nevertheless, he can nonetheless be optioned for the rest of this season and one other season as nicely, which means the Angels can provide him loads of time in Triple-A to attempt to get again on monitor. He additionally had lower than a yr of MLB service time coming into this season, which means they will maintain him on the crew for years to come back.
As for Sanchez, 21, the switch-hitting outfielder was chosen by the Phillies within the twelfth spherical of the 2019 draft. He landed the No. 19 spot on Baseball America’s listing of prime Philly prospects at their most up-to-date replace, with BA noting his glorious exit velocity within the minors. In 38 A-ball video games this yr, he’s hitting .236/.286/.429, wRC+ of 101.
