The Diamondbacks and Nationals agreed to a last-minute commerce sending right-handed reliever Dylan Floro to Arizona, reports John Gambadoro of Arizona Sports activities 98.7 FM. Arizona is sending nook infielder Andres Chaparro again to the Nats, per Nick Piecoro of the Arizona Republic.
Floro, 33, is on a one-year, $2.25M contract and will probably be a free agent at season’s finish. He’s pitched to a pristine 2.06 earned run common this season, albeit with a moderately pedestrian 19.6 p.c strikeout price and tepid 90.3 mph common fastball. That stated, Floro has walked solely 6.4 p.c of his opponents and saved the ball on the bottom at a powerful 47.6 p.c clip. He’s not going to proceed to see this stage of fortune on his fly balls — solely 2.2 p.c of them have change into homers, in comparison with the 7 p.c mark he carried into the season — however it’s been a pleasant rebound effort for a veteran reliever who struggled to maintain his ERA underneath 5.00 final yr between the Marlins and Twins.
Since cementing himself as a viable huge league reliever in 2018, Floro touts a 3.11 ERA in 361 1/3 innings. He’s had a below-average strikeout price almost each season alongside the way in which, however by no means egregiously so, and has offset that with sturdy command. Floro additionally frequently avoids loud contact, evidenced by a profession 87.4 mph common exit velocity, 3.7 p.c barrel price and 38.4 p.c hard-hit price.
Floro provides an inexpensive middle-relief arm to a D-backs bullpen that already picked up one of the crucial impactful relievers moved at this yr’s deadline: lefty A.J. Puk. That pair of newcomers will be part of late-inning arms Ryan Thompson and Kevin Ginkel to assist bridge the hole between an injury-marred rotation — at present lacking each Merrill Kelly and Eduardo Rodriguez — and nearer Paul Sewald.
Chaparro, 25, is a longtime Yankees farmhand who turned a minor league free agent this previous offseason and signed a minors contract with the D-backs. He’s had an enormous first yr in an overwhelmingly hitter-friendly Triple-A Reno setting, batting .332/.403/.563 with 19 homers — good for a 137 wRC+. Listed at 5-foot-11 and 200 kilos, Chaparro has well-below-average velocity and grades out poorly as a defender, however he’s posted above-average offensive numbers all through his minor league tenure. He might ultimately emerge as a right-handed nook bench bat/DH choice for a rebuilding Nationals membership.