Talk about a win-win for player and new team
Paul Jimenez, with Ground Floor Murals, paints a mural of Padres pitcher Dylan Cease outside California Holistics on Friday, Sept. 20, 2024 in Chula Vista, CA.
Cease, 28, will make the first postseason start of his career Saturday in Game 1 of the best-of-five National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium, opposite Yoshinobu Yamomoto, the Japanese star whom L.A. acquired for about $400 million, all told, last winter. Joe Musgrove or Yu Darvish couldn’t be expected to hold up for long stretches, nor was the farm system ready to graduate any pitchers who could do it.
The trade’s hitting prospect, 19-year-old Samuel Zavala, batted .187 with a high strikeout rate in high-Class A. It’s hard to overstate Cease’s productivity — valued at $35.8 million by analytics site FanGraphs.com — for a budget-constrained Padres team that was in win-now mode in part also because of the back-loaded mega-contracts to infielder Manny Machado and Xander Bogaerts, both 32.
Further, Glasnow was due a Rays-record $25 million – more than three times Cease’s salary – in 2024 before becoming eligible for free agency.
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