TRADE REACTION: Dean Kremer shipped to the Twin Cities
Reviewing trades and if they have any fantasy implications
Just what everyone expected: the Orioles are trading a starting pitcher. SURPRISE, it wasn’t Trevor Rogers like everyone has said (yet). Dean Kremer will no longer serve the Orioles with his mediocre pitching abilities.
There are hardly any fantasy implications tied to this trade, but I wanted to give the people what they wanted: some TRADE NEWS.
Dean came to the Orioles in the Manny Machado trade in 2018. He was the #28 prospect in the Dodgers’ system at the time. So there weren’t huge expectations for him. Being a #5 starter would’ve been just fine in my opinion.
Making his MLB debut on September 6th, 2020, this table shows pretty much his entire big league career.
His big “breakout” year was 2022, his first full big league season. Dean looked like he was going to be a solid fantasy arm at the back end of fantasy drafts. It just never happened for him. He’s a fastball-splitter guy; when the splitter isn’t working (which most of the time it isn’t) he’s unable to put guys away.
His splitter has a pretty aweosome grade but a 44% Ball% isn’t going to cut it.
So no I am not rostering this guy anywhere unless he has some kind of resurgance like Taj Bradley did last trade deadline. Something to keep an eye on each of Dean’s start is how the splitter does. He ultimately rides or dies with that pitch.
So let’s see what they got in return…. Jhomnardo Reyes. He’ll be 19 years old in October and is from the Domincan Republic. Lefty throw and swing, standing at 6’ 3” weighing in 186 lbs.
Our buddy John Allen saw Reyes ranked as high as the fifth highest Twins prospect in another publication. He’s got a pretty sweeeeeeet lefty swing.
Video via @aramleighton8 on X. Twins fans are calling it an overpay which sounds good to me. I’m excited to see what he can do in our farm system.
Looks to be pretty pull happy based of this chart I found. Maybe worth looking at in dynasty drafts if he can continue to grow in the O’s farm system.
This kid isn’t going to be in the MLB for another three or four years at the earliest if I had to guess. There is obvious swing and miss in his game. It’s worth the lottery ticket for a guy in Dean Kremer that just isn’t helping the rotation anymore. They have enough other options in Trey Gibson, Chris Bassitt, Cade Povich, and others in AAA that can fill in as the fifth starter.