The San Diego Padres are near finalizing a deal that may herald Dylan Stop from the Chicago White Sox, per ESPN’s Jeff Passan.
Stop has lengthy been a rumored commerce goal of the Dodgers, however he’ll as a substitute go to the Nationwide League West rival Padres per week earlier than the groups meet in Korea for the Seoul Collection.
Dennis Lin of The Athletic stories a number of massive title prospects are heading again to the White Sox for Stop.
This commerce comes lower than 24 hours after stories circulated that the White Sox had been extensively scouting the Padres this spring. Only a day earlier than the Padres left for Korea, the edges reached an settlement to ship the 28-year-old to San Diego.
Earlier this offseason, it was reported that the Dodgers tried to accumulate Stop in a package deal centered round Michael Busch. Nonetheless, no commerce got here to fruition, and the Dodgers ended up sending Busch to the Chicago Cubs.
Stop is 28 years previous and has two years of workforce management. He’s coming off a tough 2023 season wherein he had a 4.58 ERA throughout 33 begins. Nonetheless, in 2022, he had a 2.20 ERA in 32 begins and completed second in American League Cy Younger voting.
Stop will shore up a rotation that had tons of query marks, and provides the Padres a fearsome three-headed monster of Stop, Joe Musgrove and Yu Darvish.
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