[新聞] Braves Acquire Lucas Duda
By Steve Adams | August 29, 2018 at 5:28pm CDT
5:28pm: The Royals are covering about half of Duda’s remaining salary,
tweets David O’Brien of The Athletic.
4:45pm: The Royals and Braves have both announced the move.
4:19pm: The Royals have traded first baseman Lucas Duda to the Braves in
exchange for cash, reports Jeffrey Flanagan of MLB.com (via Twitter). He
reportedly cleared revocable trade waivers earlier this month and recently
ranked 17th on MLBTR’s list of the top 20 remaining August trade candidates.
The teams have not yet formally announced the move.
Lucas Duda | Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports
Duda, 32, will give the Braves some left-handed punch off the bench over the
final five weeks of the regular season and, the team hopes, into the
playoffs. While he hasn’t had a strong overall season, hitting just
.242/.311/.415 on the year, those pedestrian numbers are in some part due to
the fact that the Royals have played him against left-handed pitching far
more than his track record against southpaws should dictate. Duda has taken
30 percent of his plate appearances against left-handed opponents in 2018
and, unsurprisingly, struggled at a .180/.255/.258 clip.
However, in 239 plate appearances while holding the platoon advantage, Duda
has been a vastly superior hitter. He’s hit righties at a .267/.335/.479
clip, swatting 11 of his 13 homers and 11 of his 12 doubles in those
matchups. Atlanta had reportedly already attempted to claim Matt Adams from
the Nationals to fill a similar role, but the Cardinals had waiver priority
over Atlanta and wound up acquiring him instead.
Duda signed a one-year deal with Kansas City this past offseason and is
playing the year on a $3.5MM base salary. He earned a $100K bonus for taking
his 300th and 325th plate appearance this season, and he’ll take home an
additional $100K for every 25th plate appearance he takes in 2018. Because of
those incentives, that base salary has risen to $3.7MM and will soon be
bumped to $3.8MM, but with a presumably limited role on the horizon in
Atlanta, he’s not likely to unlock much more of that incentives package.
Atlanta has been a middle-of-the-pack offense against right-handed pitching
to this point in the season, hitting .256/.321/.413 — good for a 96 wRC+
that is tied for the 16th-best mark in baseball. Duda will give them some
additional thump to use in those matchups in late-game settings and will
instantly become the team’s best left-handed option off the bench. Prior to
the trade, Rio Ruiz was the team’s lone lefty on the bench.
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