Tigers swap minor OF for RHP
posted in 2006-07 offseason, minors, trades |The Tigers sent one of their extra outfield prospects to the Seattle Mariners for a right-handed minor league relief pitcher. The Tigers prospect you ought to have heard of: Jeff Frazier. He played in Lakeland in high-A and had some upside but was seen as expendable because Detroit is actually pretty deep at the OF position. The Mariners prospect — Yorman Bazardo — I hadn’t, but John Sickels at Minor League Ball ranked him ninth in the Seattle organization.
MLB.com Tigers beat writer Jason Beck gets the hat-tip for this blog post at Baseball America about Bazardo.
Yorman Bazardo–who has been outstanding since the Mariners designated him for assignment after signing Jeff Weaver–and Francisco Butto were two of the main reasons Venezuela was able to put away Puerto Rico on Tuesday and hand the Caribbean Series title to the Dominican Republic.
Bazardo (and we’ll have a scout’s view on him coming soon), was impressive, flashing a low 90s four-seamer and a hard curveball with good late life, looks like he’s approaching this Series as a showcase since being removed from the Mariners’ 40-man roster.
My first impression is this is a pretty nice trade here. He looks like an interesting pitcher, not a starter, but someone to keep the minor league shelves stocked and has some chance at making it to Detroit, and Frazier was going to have a lot of hurdles in front of him anyway with Cameron Maybin, Curtis Granderson and Magglio Ordonez penciled in as the outfield through 2010 with a good possibility of Gorkys Hernandez or Brent Clevlen being backups.
More later today, plus a few links of interest from the past few days.
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