It is not often you see two pitchers of ace pedigree, both the right side of 30 with affordable multi-year contracts shopped on the trade market at the same time. But that is exactly the situation we are seeing develop as the Reds and Rays are listening to offers on Luis Castillo and Blake Snell, respectively. This morning, my colleague Joshua Diemert dissected Castillo as a Yankees target so I thought I’d tackle Snell.
Since Castillo’s debut season in 2017, the two pitchers have mirrored each other in a variety of ways. Both are in the top 30 in strikeout rate, ERA, FIP, xFIP, and fWAR.