The Pecan Park Eagle

Ken Giles
Late Inning Relief Pitcher
2016 Houston Astros

The Deal: During the 2015-16 off-season, the Astros gave up five pitchers for the 2015 Phillies closer Ken Giles and a very young throw-in middle infielder. The deal swung on the fact that the re-building Phils were willing to give up a one-season effective young closer for more pitching depth. Principal acquisitions were former first guy in the former first round draft choice Mark Appel was showing some signs of becoming a slow-to-no developing  talent – and Vince Velasquez, who had shown in 2015 some MLB promise as either a starter or useful guy out of the pen. Brett Oberholtzer also went to the Phillies as an established MLB upside possibility.

With no further subjective opinion, here are a few of the early 2016 statistical results for six of the seven players involved. We couldn’t find anything from 2016 on 17-year old Jonathan Arauz so we simply included his 2015 rookie league action for the Phillies and duly noted that we had nothing else on him from this year.

It’s a long season and all that good stuff, but here’s how the seven involved players have done, so far, in MLB and minor league action in 2016. Our data covers all six of the pitchers involved. Only further word on the 17-year old infielder is missing.

First up are two tables on the major and minor league players who went from Houston to Philadelphia, showing how the two major and three minor league ex-Astro organization pitchers are doing for Philadelphia this year, through all games of 4/27/16.

1.) New Phillies MLB Pitchers in 2016 through 4/27/16:

2.) New Phillies Minor League Pitchers in 2016 through 4/27/16:

These second tables simply show how former Phillies closer Ken Giles is doing in a less specific late-game role for Houston in 2016, and also  how the throw-in young infielder did last year for the Phillies.

3.) New Astros MLB Pitcher in 2016 through 4/27/16:

4) New Astros Lower Minor League Infielder’s Phillies 2015 Rookie League Player:

* NO AVAILABLE REPORT ON 2016 RESULTS WAS FOUND.

If you have any comment on how you feel the trade seems to be working out, please feel free to leave it as a comment response to this publication.

Thank you.

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Bill McCurdy

Publisher, Editor, Writer

The Pecan Park Eagle

Houston, Texas

https://bill37mccurdy.com/