{"id":66230,"date":"2024-02-02T14:07:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T19:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=66230"},"modified":"2024-02-02T14:32:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T19:32:27","slug":"ross-stripling-trade-giants-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/02\/02\/ross-stripling-trade-giants-athletics\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants Trade Ross Stripling Across the Bay to the A&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco Giants traded veteran starter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/stripro01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-02-02_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ross Stripling<\/a> and cash considerations across the Bay to the Oakland Athletics for minor league outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=cox---000jon&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-02-02_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonah Cox<\/a>. Stripling is scheduled to earn $12.5 million this season. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bridejo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-02-02_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonah Bride<\/a> was designated for assignment to fill room on the 40-man roster. The A&#8217;s also confirmed their reported <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/01\/29\/alex-wood-new-team\/\" target=\"_self\">one-year deal<\/a> with southpaw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/woodal02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-02-02_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alex Wood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Oakland A&#8217;s acquired right-hander Ross Stripling in a trade with the San Francisco Giants for minor league IF\/OF Jonah Cox.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/1753486940350157080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Rare Trade Between the Two Bay Area Clubs<\/h2>\n<p>Indeed, it is a rare trade between the A&#8217;s and the Giants. It&#8217;s a move that will help Oakland add some much-needed depth to the roster. Stripling is coming off a rough season after inking a two-year, $25 million deal with San Francisco. The right-hander opened the season with a 7.24 ERA in 32 1\/3 innings, switching between the rotation and bullpen. Then he hit the injured list with a back strain for six weeks. However, he finished his first year, posting a 5.36 ERA over 89 innings. Stripling&#8217;s contract did come with the ability to opt-out following the season, but he chose to stay with the Giants.<\/p>\n<h3>Ross Stripling Career<\/h3>\n<p>Stripling has served as a swingman for the majority of his career. He was often used as a sixth starter with the Los Angeles Dodgers or the Toronto Blue Jays, who acquired him at the 202 trade deadline. 2022 saw Stripling fill a full-time rotation role after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/ryuhy01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-02-02_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hyun Jin Ryu<\/a> was out from Tommy John surgery. The veteran righty helped the Blue Jays rotation for most of the season, posting a 2.93 ERA in 123 1\/3 innings out of the rotation. His results were everything the Blue Jays wanted out of him.<\/p>\n<p>In Stripling, the A&#8217;s have a versatile arm with success in various roles. He won&#8217;t overpower that many hitters, but he offers a solid 43.8% grounder rate and some of the best command in baseball.<\/p>\n<h3>Jonah Cox Profile<\/h3>\n<p>Cox transferred to Oral Roberts, and they went all the way to the College World Series by hitting .412\/.470\/.646 with 11 home runs and 28 steals in 66 games. His 47-game hitting streak stands as the third-longest in NCAA Division I history. The A&#8217;s would select him in the sixth round of the 2023 MLB Draft. In his professional debut, he marched through the Rookie League competition, hitting .421\/.560\/.579 with six stolen bases in seven games. It was enough for him to earn a promotion, where he hit .264\/.325\/.373 with two home runs and 14 stolen bases in 16 attempts with Single-A Stockton.<\/p>\n<p>Cox immediately throttles himself as one of the best athletes in the Giants prospect system. He is a plus-plus runner with a great sense of contact skills at the plate. He even has the tools to be an everyday lead-off hitter in center field. If it all works out, this could be a win for the Giants and the future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 John Hefti-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco Giants traded veteran starter Ross Stripling and cash considerations across the Bay to the Oakland Athletics for minor league outfielder Jonah Cox. Stripling is scheduled to earn $12.5 million this season. Jonah Bride was designated for assignment to fill room on the 40-man roster. The A&#8217;s also confirmed their reported one-year deal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3686,"featured_media":66231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,15,2,1071,35],"tags":[204,568,28322,28321,92,273,36],"class_list":["post-66230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-giants","category-athletics","category-featured","category-mlb","category-news","tag-alex-wood","tag-hyun-jin-ryu","tag-jonah-bride","tag-jonah-cox","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-ross-stripling","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}