In a deal that was consummated just minutes before Wednesday’s trade deadline, the Padres acquired reliever Carl Edwards Jr. from the Chicago Cubs yesterday in exchange for lefty Brad Wieck. The transaction got largely lost in the aftermath of the Franmil Reyes/Taylor Trammell hubbub, so this seems like a decent time to review the players involved.
Wieck—on the heels of a 2018 debut in which he logged a 1.29 ERA during a 7.0 inning cup of coffee—consistently faltered in middle relief appearances this season. Though the 27-year-old strikes out hitters with abandon, he has given up longballs at a whiplash-inducing clip in both AAA and San Diego this year: 21.