An unprecedented trade took place Tuesday when the Washington Nationals dealt 23-year-old superstar outfielder Soto to the Padres in exchange for a massive haul of prospects and first baseman/designated hitter Luke Voit.
Juan Soto and star first baseman Josh Bell of the Washington Nationals are headed to the Padres for a passel of prospects.Soto is only batting .246, but has one of the league’s highest on-base percentages at .408 with a 20.9% BB%. He’s got a .485 SLG with 21 home runs in 101 games. Soto has faced the lowest percentage of fastballs in his career and still owns a 151 wRC +, which makes him 51% above league average offensively.
The Padres gave up a king’s ransom. They traded four top-85 prospects in baseball, according to FanGraphs. Infielder C.J. Abrams is the centerpiece of the trade as a 21-year-old that has already reached the big leagues. Left-handed pitcher MacKenzie Gore has shown plenty of flashes of brilliance, though he is on the IL with a sore elbow. The others are outfielders Robert Hassell III and James Wood, who is just 19 years old. Both have intriguing power and speed tools.
Abrams will play every day for Washington and Gore will be a rotation fixture if he comes back. The others are a long way from the majors. In the short-term, the Padres don’t have much World Series value and probably won’t have much game-by-game betting value as the hype of the Soto deal dominates the narrative. The Padres do have 12 head-to-head meetings left with the Dodgers and trail by 12 games in the NL West standings. San Diego is 35/1 to win the division at DraftKings and now + 450 to win the NL.
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