Let’s try that again.
The Pirates have traded Tyler Anderson to the Mariners for a pair of prospects. Coming the Pirates way are 22-year-old catcher Carter Bins and 18-year-old right-hander Joaquin Tejada.
Bins was ranked as the 29th-best prospect in the Mariners' deep farm system, per Baseball America. Tejada was not ranked.
Earlier Tuesday, the Pirates and Phillies had a deal in place to send the left-hander to Philadelphia for two minor-league players, but it fell through at the last second after the Pirates saw something they didn’t like in a medical report.
Rather than revise the deal, the Pirates instead opted to send Anderson to the other side of the country.
Bins, an 11th-round pick by the Mariners in the 2019 draft, had a big offensive season in Class High-A, slashing .284/.422/.493 with seven home runs over 185 plate appearances. He recently earned a promotion to Class AA, where he got off to a cooler start, hitting .067 through his first 10 games, but still maintaining a .300 on-base percentage because of the amount of times he's walked.
That’ll play.
— Mariners Player Development (@MsPlayerDev) April 19, 2021
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Drafted partially because of his good defensive reputation, Bins has not done well behind the dish, making seven errors, allowing 12 passed balls and allowing 67 stolen bases on 80 attempts. At three years at Fresno State University, he threw out 61% of would-be base stealers, so this decline in the glove is seemingly surprising.
Tejada, 18, signed out of Panama for $200,000 in 2019. He made his professional debut this year and has allowed four earned runs over five innings pitched with four walks and eight strikeouts for the Dominican Summer League Mariners.
A few months after his signing, Baseball America noted that Tejada had touched 93 mph at an instructional camp. He also throws a curveball.
Unlike most of the players the Pirates had on the trade block this year, Anderson was on a one-year deal, making a trade far more likely. With the timing of a potential deal, the Pirates opted to trade him rather than let him make one more start.
Anderson signed as a free agent shortly after pitchers and catchers reported last February. He went 5-8 with a 4.35 ERA over his 18 starts, all of which lasted at least five innings.
He was scratched from Tuesday's start after it appeared the trade to the Phillies was complete, but went out to throw in the Pirates' bullpen about 90 minutes before the Pirates' game against the Brewers.
The trade deadline is this Friday at 4 p.m.
