Ok, hit post a bit too quickly on the gamer, as the context around just got upended. After last night’s confidence-boosting comeback, and with the M’s a game out of playoff position, the M’s have decided to trade closer Kendall Graveman and erstwhile closer Rafael Montero (who’d recently been DFA’d) to…Houston, the team in the away dugout. In exchange, the M’s get 3B Abraham Toro and RP Joe Smith. Uhhhh, yeah.
Abraham Toro has been a prospect for years thanks to a good combination of contact skills/low-K rates and a discerning eye that led him to post high walk totals in the minors.