The Cleveland Baseball Club agreed to a near deadline deal with the Houston Astros
It is another trade for the Cleveland Baseball Club and this time it involves moving a reliever. Cleveland is sending Phil Maton to the Houston Astros in exchange for outfielder Myles Straw.
MLB source: Astros trade Myles Straw to Indians in a deal that brings RHP Phil Maton to Houston
— Mark Berman (@MarkBerman_) July 30, 2021
Catching prospect Yainer Diaz was also included in the package to Houston per reports.
Maton has a 4.57 ERA, 1.355 WHIP, and 13.3 K/9 in 38 games this season.
Myles Straw is a 26-year old outfielder with not a lot of pop in the bat. Straw has only 27 extra-base hits in 594 plate appearances, with 107 of his career hits being singles. Straw is a contact hitter who has a career slash line of .256/.334/.323/.659 with a WRC+ of 93 this season. With the incredibly lackluster state of the Cleveland outfield, this could be a productive deal for Cleveland. Adding in someone who is good in the contact department provides a different type of bat to the lineup. At the end of the day they need solutions in the outfield and what they have currently is not really producing all that much. Hopefully in time Straw can be an answer of some sort.
