Phillies complete deal for Astros All Star Pence
Updated: July 29, 2011, 11:27 PM ET
The Philadelphia Phillies finished a deal Friday night, acquiring Houston’s All-Star right fielder Hunter Pence for four prospects.
The headline pieces were Phillies top pitching prospect, Jarred Cosart, and their top hitting prospect, Jonathan Singleton. The Phillies made those two the centerpieces of their original offer for Pence early this week.
The 21-year-old Cosart was 9-8 with a 3.92 ERA in 20 games, 19 starts, for Clearwater.
The 19-year-old Singleton was batting .282 with nine homers and 47 RBIs for Class A Clearwater. He was selected by the Phillies in the eighth round of the 2009 draft.
Rebuilding Houston also got 25-year-old righty Josh Zeid, who was 2-3 with two saves and a 5.65 ERA in 21 games, 11 starts, for Double-A Reading.
The fourth player will be named later.
Sources stated the Astros will choose the player to be named later from a list of minor leaguers currently playing in Class A. That group does not consist of top prospects, those sources said.
Until late in the day Friday, the Astros were insisting on Singleton, Cosart and two more of the Phillies’ top 10 prospects, one of which was their top draft pick in 2010, right-handed pitcher Jesse Biddle. It was not until the Astros concurred to substitute Zeid and lower-rated minor leaguers that the deal gathered steam late Friday afternoon.
The Astros also are sending an unspecified amount of cash to the Phillies in the deal. Pence has approximately $2.2 million in salary due over the rest of this season, a figure that likely would have put the Phillies over the luxury-tax threshold had they been required to pay the full amount.
The Atlanta Braves also made a serious run at Pence, according to ESPN.com’s Jerry Crasnick. The Braves offered Houston four prospects — two at the upper levels of the minors and two from lower-level clubs — and were still exchanging names with Houston in the early evening Friday.
The Astros asked for Atlanta pitching prospect Mike Minor, a source said, but it’s uncertain if the Braves were willing to include Minor in their trade package.
Jayson Stark is a senior baseball writer for ESPN.com. Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.
source : espn.go.com
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