The Milwaukee Brewers were linked to several players last summer around the trade deadline.ย Rumors about the Crew being interested in star Pete Alonso may have just been the club doing their due diligence and at least inquiring about his cost, but there may also have been real interest in some of these other talks.
One player that they were linked to last July was Chicago White Sox designated hitter Eloy Jimenez.ย Bruce Levine, a MLB Insider, reported this information.ย With the season over and the White Sox willing to make deals it may be time to discuss if the Brewers should re-initiate those trade discussions.
Should the Milwaukee Brewers re-initiate trade talks with the Chicago White Sox for Eloy Jimenez?ย
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Eloy Jimenez, who actually turns 27 years old one day after this publication, is a right-handed designated hitter who is entering the prime years of his career.ย He has a $13.00 MM salary for the 2024 season followed by a pair of club options for 2025 and 2026.ย His 2025 salary will be $16.50 MM and 2026 $18.50 MM.
Over five seasons with the White Sox Eloy Jimenez is slashing .275/.324/.487 with a 118 OPS+.ย When healthy he has 30 home run potential and he can be a big run producer.ย He does not draw a lot of walks at the plate, but his high batting average and slugging percentage make him dangerous.
This off-season Chicago has already swung one major trade as they received five players in return for reliever Aaron Bummer.ย If Milwaukee was to give new White Sox GM Chris Getz a phone call they presumably would find the cost to acquire Eloy Jimenez quite high.
Between a high cost of prospect/player capital and the injury history associated with Eloy Jimenez (55 games played in 2021 and 84 in 2022) the Brewers may be better suited staying out of these trade discussions.ย Eloy Jimenez would give them a significant boost at the designated hitter position, but I would expect them to look elsewhere.
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3 Comments
The Brewers need to trade Burnes while heโs worth something.
That would be VERY stupid. Heโs worth more to the team for the upcoming season, and when he performs as he always has, his value will go up, NOT down.
He will have just as much value at the deadline as he does now.
There is no such thing as injury prone. In most sports, it simply means a player is giving maximum effort and got unlucky. Guys like that are great.
Itโs also funny how, when you mentioned that false โfactโ, that you pointed to 2021 and 2022, while failing disingenuously to note that he did in fact play 120 games and accrue nearly 500 PAs.
Heโs also DOES walk a fair amount for someone with such a high BA. A 50 point differential between BA and OBPis HUGE (and a better way to judge such things, as the guy hitting .220 with an OBP of .300 IS actually walking and getting on base a lot). The elite players tend to have 75 to 100 point differentials between the two figures, but 50 is still in the very good range. Itโs guys who hit .250 with OBPs of .275 that are bad.