Atlanta Braves Trade for 1B/DH Tyler White from the Milwaukee Brewers
The Atlanta Braves have seen how important having depth is, and they gained some more by trading for Tyler White on Wednesday for cash considerations.
It’s hard to acquire depth this time of year, but Alex Anthopoulos and the Atlanta Braves were able to do that on Wednesday by making a trade with the Milwaukee Brewers for first baseman Tyler White.
The Braves made another move the other day acquiring Rylan Bannon as infield depth.
While these players most likely won’t see action with the big league club, we’ve seen have quickly injuries can dig into your depth. It’s nice to have guys like this around just in case.
We saw what happened over the weekend as Chadwick Tromp got called up for the first — any maybe only time — this year after Travis d’Arnaud was injured and had a big day.
Braves Trade for Tyler White
Tyler White was a 33rd-round pick by the Houston Astros in 2013 out of Western Carolina University in North Carolina.
He made his debut in Houston in 2016 and slashed .241/.319/.409 with 26 home runs over parts of four seasons with the Astros.
The big right-handed hitter spent part of 2019 with the Dodgers but got just 1 hit in 22 at-bats — that was the last time he played at the big league level.
His best season came in 2018 when he slashed .276/.354/.533 with 12 home runs in 66 games.
This year at Triple-A for the Brewers, he’s slashed .231/.357/.431 with 13 home runs in 75 games.
He’s kind of a right-handed version of Daniel Vogelbach in terms of their size, they don’t hit for average, will take a walk, and can run into some home runs.
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Don’t ever overlook these small moves. Again, you hope these players aren’t needed because that means something has gone wrong.
But when something does go wrong, you want guys like Tyler White in place who have big league experience and can help hold things down for a little while.