The tiger didn’t wait for a long time. On Monday, the group announced that starter Reese Olson would miss the rest of the season (probably the playoffs) due to right shoulder pressure, the same day Detroit filled Olson’s rotation position by swinging trade within Minnesota right-hander Chris Paddack’s division. The complete deal brings Paddack and Reliever Randy Dobnak to Tigers in exchange for the 19-year-old Prospect Prospect Enrique Jimenez. The deal represents an attempt to stabilize the growing Detroit spin to make an increasingly important extension. For the twins, the move begins with the possibility of a major sell-off.
We will start with the twins. “It’s so crazy. sportsNews of the deal was initially reported with Ken Rosenthal. “The world is just turning upside down to say the least. This is sometimes the business is out of control. As twins, I’m really drawing us for us. I hope we can take some action and get that wild card position. I’m excited about a new opportunity with a new team.” It’s unclear who will take the Paddack position in the Minnesota rotation. The twins have a planned bullpen game today. Paddack will start tomorrow, and he lined up to face his old team when the Tigers and Twins a week from today. The twins’ broadcast pointed out the hovering of dates on the calendar during last night’s game.
Paddack is popular at The Minnesota Clubhouse, and twin fans will have a hard time seeing Dobnak and majestic facial hair leave. ESPN’s Jeff Passan first reported that the same was true for Dobnak. The right-handed reliefist is a favorite, and he returned to the Grand Slam in 2024 after three years of a minor, but his deal is almost certainly a salary. He only appeared with the twins this season, with a 7.12 ERA in the Triple-A triple-A ERA in St. Paul. He has about $1 million left on his contract this season, while $1 million was acquired in 2026. Save $2 million from his twins. Overall, the Tigers’ salary is about $4.6 million.
Robert Murray of Fansided first reported that Jimenez was the return of Minnesota. The Venezuelan-born catcher will turn 20 in November, and before the trade, he ran 119 WRC+ with 48 home runs in his second season of the complex league game. Eric Longenhagen and James Fegan ranked 28th in the Detroit system in March. With 50-point catchers Thayron Liranzo and José Briceño ranked third and fourth, the Tigers won’t lose sleep by losing Jimenez. However, the twins didn’t rank in the top 20 of their roster, so while Jimenez won’t be playing in Minnesota anytime soon, he does meet the needs of the organization. Eric and James scored more than 35 results in Jimenez in March, and Eric confirmed that he now has the same results on the receiver. He added: “Advanced, high defense and good arms (Jimenez will pop 1.90 out of 1.90) anchor his profile. He is also a great decision maker and it’s hard to swing for a 5-foot-9-foot-9-foot-9-foot-9-foot-9-foot-9-foot-9-foot-9-foot-9-foot-9-foot-catching catcher of Jimenez’s status tends to encounter a second or third match hit rate. There is no typical physical or athletic ability.”
Whether this begins as a full-scale sale in Minnesota remains to be seen. The team itself is in the process of selling, and it’s hard to know how this will affect the decisions of Derek Falvey, president of the baseball business. A dramatic ninth comeback pushed the twins 51-55 on Monday night, scoring 5 games in 10 games for the Tigers’ defender and snatched five games in the last wildcard position. Currently, we give them a 16% chance to make the playoffs, with trade rumors especially spinning around outfielders Harrison Bader and Willi Castro. Left-handed rescuer Danny Coulombe has performed well in the season, with first baseman Thai France and catcher Christian Vázquez signing a contract. After Paddack Trade, you have to assume that the team wants to uninstall all of this. The real question now is how difficult it will be for the twins. They can trade great pitchers like Joe Ryan, Jhoan Duran, Griffin Jax and Brock Stewart, all of whom will enter their second year arbitration.
The Tigers’ rotation didn’t go all out throughout the season. Alex Cobb didn’t pitch for both hip pain at all, and he just shot cortisone again in the All-Star game. Jackson Jobe underwent surgery by Tommy John in June. José Urquidy hasn’t pitched after his Tommy John’s surgery since 2023. He held his first live hit exercise last week and it seems likely that he will start his recovery mission by the end of August. Olson represents huge losses. At the start of 13, his ERA was 4.15 and 3.45 FIP, and he ranked third among employees with a 1.3 war.
Detroit’s starters rank among the top six employees in ERA (3.53), FIP (3.57), XFIP (3.61) and War (10.2), but these figures are occupied by the presence and presumed future Cy Young cy Young Winner Tarik Skubal. Casey Mize was the best season of his career with a 3.40 ERA and 3.78 FIP, but Jack Flaherty struggled to hit 4.51 ERA and 4.13 FIP. Olson and Jobe are the only tigers who started over 10 times. Recently, Keider Montero, who has 9.53 ERAs in his last three games, while rookie Troy Melton has performed well in minors and has done well, but he has only eight of Triple-As before Triple-As begins.
So far this season, Paddack has shown the ability to patch the spin holes, but nothing more. More than 21 innings and 111 innings, his ERA and 4.40 FIP shooting percentage. Every day in the twins, Matthew Trueblood even raised the possibility that a tiger might use Paddack from a bullpen. Paddack looked like a potential ace in his rookie season with Padres in 2019, but he has been working to stay healthy and regain that form, especially since the 2022 deal brought him to the twins. This is just the third time in a season he has reached 20 games or 100 innings. He has not played 15 games with ERAs below 3.40 since 2020. At 45.7%, Paddack has the seventh highest fly rate in any qualified pitcher, so fewer home runs than Target Field than Target Field should help his stuff work, but he absolutely has nothing to do. As you would expect from a mid-fly pitcher, Paddack has a season before and next.
After struggling with tough games in his first two games, he got rid of 11 games in which he had ERA 2.25 ERA and 3.60 FIP. However, he also ran XFIP at 4.25, and all the signs of stretching are unsustainable. Paddack has 7.49 ERA, 4.68 FIP and 4.53 XFIP in the last eight games. You might argue that he was a little unlucky during that time, but his total number this season may reflect who he is now. Things may rush to go bad when the ball flies. If not, he is great. He allows for two or fewer runs at least five innings this season. There are only 35 pitchers who can say the same thing, and only 6 pitchers have more than 15. However, from the beginning, he also advanced to the top of the league with more than 4 runs, 5 runs and 6 runs. Maybe that’s how the Tigers will think of Paddack, the way a coin flips, and his performance is as likely as an explosion in his face.
Nevertheless, Evan Pezold Detroit Freedom Gived D+, if this is the only addition to the tiger spin, you can understand what he thinks. Detroit has scored 3-12 in the last 15 games, but even after that slide, the team has nine games in the guardian of the second place, and our current Tigers have a 93.2% chance to win the Central. They are so ahead of the rest of the division that the current skiers have hardly impacted the odds of the playoffs, but their chances of winning first-round goodbye have dropped from 87.2% to 56.7%. They have neither the best record in professional nor AL. In the second goodbye game, they led by Astros in the loss column.
Maybe the Tigers saw something they could improve on Paddack, or maybe they were confident in the park factor, but even after he got his sinking pieces back in 2023, his stuff scored below average. If he just keeps doing what he is doing, he probably won’t stand out after Skubal, Mize, Flaherty, Flaherty and Olson, cobb or Melton’s Skubal spin. A few weeks ago, adding Paddack simply didn’t make sense. Now, it seems like he’s just here to help stick with that first round goodbye. But if the Tigers are going to spend money and become a starter prospect, why not let one be more helpful throughout the process and help them in the playoffs? Rents like Adrian Houser and Merrill Kelly are better than Paddack and make less money. They will cost more, but they can help more. This is a completely defensible move and will not rule out further additions. But it was a disappointment to see a Tigers looking so exciting last October, taking over half of the measures for most of the season.
