Braves Acquire Yoan Lopez From Diamondbacks

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For Deivi Estrada.

From MLBTR: López never lived up to those lofty standards. He wasn’t completely unproductive in Arizona, though. López tossed 60 2/3 innings of 3.41 ERA ball in 2019, proving to be one of the D-Backs more reliable relievers that season. While he’s struggled to keep runs off the board the past two seasons, he has at least shown some flashes of promise.

López is inducing ground balls at a decent 45.2% rate, and he’s seen a slight uptick in swings and misses this year. His 21.3% strikeout rate is a career best (albeit still three percentage points worse than average for a reliever), excluding a 2018 season in which he only pitched nine innings. More impressively, López has generated whiffs on 12.7% of his pitches, a mark that’s slightly better than league average. He also brings a power arm to Atlanta, sitting 95.7 MPH on his heater.

Just saw this in Around the league thread.

[50PoundHead]

It looks like a bit of an odd mood except with underperforming pitchers, there's always someone in a diifferent organizatioh who believes he can be fixed and hence, the interest.

Estrada had a fairly decent 2019 in the Dominican Summer League. I don't know how organizations scouted these guys during the interregnum, but the D-backs must see something of value.