{"id":98854,"date":"2025-04-07T17:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T21:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=98854"},"modified":"2025-04-07T18:00:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T22:00:23","slug":"red-sox-quinn-priester-traded-brewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/04\/07\/red-sox-quinn-priester-traded-brewers\/","title":{"rendered":"Quinn Priester Traded To Milwaukee Brewers for Outfield Prospect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Red Sox have traded RHP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/priesqu01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-04-07_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quinn Priester<\/a> to the Milwaukee Brewers, the team announced Monday. The return they got was #7 Brewers&#8217; prospect OF <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=rodrig000yop&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-04-07_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yophery Rodriguez<\/a>, a Competitive Balance Round A draft pick, along with cash considerations and a player to be named later.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RedSox?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#RedSox<\/a> today traded RHP Quinn Priester to the Milwaukee Brewers, in exchange for minor league OF Yophery Rodriguez, a Competitive Balance Round A draft pick, and a player to be named later or cash considerations.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Red Sox (@RedSox) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RedSox\/status\/1909260342414229831?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Red Sox Trade Quinn Priester to Brewers<\/h2>\n<p>Priester has had a rocky start to his MLB career. He made his debut with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2023 as the #4 prospect in their system. That year, he posted an ERA of 7.74, giving up 2.2 HR\/9. Priester was only a little better ERA-wise in 2024 with Pittsburgh, posting 5.04. However, he was traded to the Red Sox at the 2024 trade deadline for their #8 prospect, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/y\/yorkeni01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-04-07_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nick Yorke<\/a>. It was a prospect swap, and it was hoped that with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bailean01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-04-07_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrew Bailey<\/a> as the pitching coach, Priester would play to his potential. But due to being in a logjam with the other starters in the rotation, he was immediately put on a bus to Triple-A Worcester. He only played one game in Boston since.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, he had a 4.22 ERA in spring training, posting an abysmal 13.5 HR\/9 in just four appearances. Priester had little time in the majors with the Red Sox. They also acquired the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/03\/12\/red-sox-top-breakout-candidates\/\" target=\"_self\">Walker Buehler<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/crochga01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-04-07_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Garrett Crochet<\/a> for their rotation, so the writing was on the wall for this deal. He was traded to Milwaukee to hopefully regain his stock. This trade seems relatively insignificant on a surface level. However, it could be much bigger than that. They didn&#8217;t just get a top-10 prospect from Milwaukee, they also got a competitive balance pick after the first round. Most likely, their new prospect, Rodriguez, will be trade bait shortly. However, that doesn&#8217;t dismiss the fact that the Red Sox chief baseball officer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/breslcr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-04-07_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Craig Breslow<\/a> has been making wise moves this year. So far, he doesn&#8217;t show signs of stopping.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Red Sox have traded RHP Quinn Priester to the Milwaukee Brewers, the team announced Monday. The return they got was #7 Brewers&#8217; prospect OF Yophery Rodriguez, a Competitive Balance Round A draft pick, along with cash considerations and a player to be named later. The #RedSox today traded RHP Quinn Priester to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5478,"featured_media":98902,"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":[1071,4,27,35],"tags":[3614,28666,2694,2265,28941],"class_list":["post-98854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","category-redsox","category-brewers","category-news","tag-garrett-crochet","tag-nick-yorke","tag-quinn-priester","tag-walker-buehler","tag-yophery-rodriguez"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98854","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\/5478"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98854"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98903,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98854\/revisions\/98903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}