{"id":76089,"date":"2024-06-07T13:02:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T17:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=76089"},"modified":"2024-06-07T13:02:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T17:02:55","slug":"buddy-kennedy-phillies-tigers-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/07\/buddy-kennedy-phillies-tigers-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies Make Another Trade, Acquire Infield Depth from Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Tigers have traded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kennebu01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-07_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buddy Kennedy<\/a> to the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday in exchange for cash considerations, per Evan Petzold of the <em>Detroit Free Press<\/em>. Kennedy, 25, is moving closer to home after he was designated for assignment by the Tigers on Monday. When the Tigers promoted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/malloju02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-07_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Justyn-Henry Malloy<\/a> from Triple-A Toledo, sending <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/t\/torkesp01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-07_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spencer Torkelson<\/a> to the minor leagues opened a spot on the 26-man roster and designated Kennedy for assignment opened a spot on the 40-man roster. Kennedy is now a member of the Phillies 40-man roster and will play for Triple-A Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tigers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Tigers<\/a> have traded infielder Buddy Kennedy to the Phillies for cash considerations.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy, 25, hit .200 with one home run, two strikeouts and four walks in six games with Tigers. He also hit .234 with three homers, 19 walks, 39 strikeouts in 39 games for Triple-A Toledo.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Evan Petzold (@EvanPetzold) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EvanPetzold\/status\/1799102126079263121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Phillies Acquire Buddy Kennedy from the Tigers<\/h2>\n<p>Kennedy becomes the latest depth addition <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/06\/ruben-cardenas-phillies-rays-trade\/\" target=\"_self\">for a Phillies club that acquired<\/a> Ruben Cardens and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=dipoto000jon&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-07_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonah Dipoto<\/a> in separate trades. Kennedy, a Philadelphia native, played baseball at Millville High School in New Jersey, just over 4o miles from Citizens Bank Park. His grandfather, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/moneydo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-07_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Don Money<\/a>, played for the Phillies from 1968-72. The Tigers designated Kenney for assignment due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kreidry01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-07_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Kreidler<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=leonar003edd&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-07_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eddys Leonard<\/a> returning from Triple-A Toledo on Monday and Tuesday, respectively. After their returns, Kreidler and Leonard moved ahead of Kennedy for a promotion if the Tigers needed an infielder in the majors.<\/p>\n<h3>Kennedy&#8217;s Career<\/h3>\n<p>Kennedy is joining his fifth organization since September. He&#8217;s a career .205 hitter in 136 triples to the plate in the majors. His larger body of work in the minors was impressive. Over the 2021 to 2023 seasons, he hit .287\/.395\/.455. He did all that while playing at second and third base, with some stints at first base and left field. His minor league performance made him popular last year. He was designated for assignment by the Diamondbacks in September. But he did bounce around to Oakland, St. Louis and Detroit through waiver claims. His performance this year has been unimpressive, hitting .234\/.331\/.393 in Triple-A. That underperformance has put him unclaimed until the trade. The Diamondbacks did outright him after the 2022 season.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: \u00a9 Bruce Kluckhohn-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Tigers have traded Buddy Kennedy to the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday in exchange for cash considerations, per Evan Petzold of the Detroit Free Press. Kennedy, 25, is moving closer to home after he was designated for assignment by the Tigers on Monday. When the Tigers promoted Justyn-Henry Malloy from Triple-A Toledo, sending Spencer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3686,"featured_media":76092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_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":[35,1071],"tags":[5734,85,28518,268,2932,3682],"class_list":["post-76089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-mlb","tag-buddy-kennedy","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-justyn-henry-malloy","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-ruben-cardenas","tag-spencer-torkelson"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76089","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=76089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}