FIRST ONE DROPS! Tampa Bay Rays TRADE Danny Jansen To The Milwaukee Brewers | New Catcher Coming??

in 2008. Nine does equal weight. Rays win. Rays win. Rays win. All right, let’s knock out this video so I can go watch this raise Yankees game. First ball drops of the trade deadline. I mean, you think back to June, what a good month June was. June was so much fun. Just great baseball, great pitching, bats all over the place. And then July, the whole season has flipped on its head. I mean, it’s not like they’re completely out of it at all. Massive series, four games against the New York Yankees this uh next four days, but painful. God, painful. So many blown leads. Like, I’m only talking about this because I haven’t been making Rays videos. It’s just been frustrating and I’ve been busy. And now here I am locked in. Let’s get into this trade. Raise trade. Danny Jansen does not even spend a full season with the team. They did sign him to a one-year deal for $8 million, which for the Rays is a big signing. And next year, he did have a mutual $12 million option to stay with the team if it worked out that way. It does not work out that way. He’s out before the trade deadline. So, this article, uh, race catchers are not often around for a long time in Tampa Bay. Ain’t that the truth? But even by their standards, Danny Jans’s stay was a brief one. Per multiple reports, the Rays are sending veteran catcher to the Brewers in exchange for one of Milwaukey’s top 10 prospects, Jadair Aranamo. So, honestly, the return is not too bad. He’s 21 years old. We’ll get to into him a little bit here in a second. Brewers looking to get a guy that is a play now guy with experience um to carry their ball club and help them out where the Rays are once again reeling on the season trying to just grasp a hold of something and just figure out how to get back on the track. Danny Jansen signed in Tampa Bay this offseason has struggled to match his normal production at the plate hitting 204 314 on base at the time of the deal. patient hitter who knows the strike zone. We don’t need to learn about Danny Jans. We already know about him. So, let’s move on down to Mr. Jair Aranamo. Second baseman once again, 21 years old, small guy if I’m not mistaken. Uh 58 160. Bring us the Brewers top 10 prospect in Baseball America’s latest top 30 update. The Venezuelan native is an excellent defender at second and third while also being a plus hitter. Arianamo finished second in the Carolina League in batting in 2023 and led the Midwest League in batting in 2024. Great signs there. Because of the Brewers infield depth, he was sent back to the Midwest League this year. 5 foot8 Aronamo is not a slugger, but he does have the ability to drive the ball to the gaps if I’m not mistaken. Oh yeah, it says it right there. He has 11 home runs this season with the Rays. Um immediately becomes one of the team’s better infield prospects. While the Rays do have a multitude of infielders, a number of them have struggled to hit this year. Carson Williams and Brennan Taylor, most notably. This will be a reunion of sorts. Um, yeah, Gregory Barios, who was brought in at the trade deadline last year for Aaron Cavali. So, little reunion there. Barios and Aryanamo. Let’s go to his numbers so far this year. They’re honestly pretty dang good. I mean, it’s single A, but 297, 355 on base, 11 home runs, 15 stolen bases, 51 RBI’s. Not too shabby at all. It’s a solid return. Obviously, it’s not a guy who we’re going to see if we even do see him for a few years now. It’s not like J Danny Jensen was lighting the world on fire. His defensive numbers were down as well as his numbers batting. So, I see it. Does that mean we’re going to see Dominick Keegan here soon? He’s been looking good in the miners. Um, who knows? Who knows? The Rays did make a second trade, though. Let’s pull this guy up and take a look at him. Nick Forz from the Miami Marlins. The Rays get they’re a catcher. So, Matt Thick Forz are kind of just they’re honestly two backups, but one of them has to be a starter every day for the Rays. And it’s probably in my eyes going to be a competition for who’s the backup going forward cuz you got to have something better than this as your, you know, usual starter. Nick Forz defensively looking at baseball savant here. Defensive numbers are pretty fantastic. Fielding run va values 76 percentile, blocks above average 92. That’s fantastic. Framing 95, pop time 76. So, all really good stuff there from Nick Forez defensively. Hitting, he’s not going to bring much to the table. Race catchers usually don’t bring much to the table. So, it’s nothing new. It’s, you know, what we’ve gotten used to at this point, but the defense is there. We can take that. And who the Rays gave up in this trade for Nick Forez? Honestly, they really didn’t give up much. Matthew Zel, uh, left fielder, 6’2 to 111, 23 years old. His hitting numbers are not great right now. Um, in double A he’s hitting 230, five home runs, 34 RBI’s in 56 games. It’s nothing spectacular. So, it’s not like we gave up much for a guy who probably his status is at a backup catcher level. So, I’m fine with it. you’re giving up a guy in Matthew Edel who, you know, isn’t showing too much promise in the miners. Obviously, things can change for him going into the Miami system. Who knows what the future holds. Don’t want to put the guy down or anything like that, but you get Nick Forz, a guy who once again can compete for a backup catcher job going forward. Has three years of control for the race, which is a very good thing. And they see the upside there. I get it. Once again, very good defensively. Not a great hitter. three years of control. There you go. Compete for the backup job and hopefully something gets better at the catching position going forward. Where the Rays are at right now, just a little update after the trade. Of course, the four game series against New York in New York um is starting today, ends on Thursday, and then they have Los Angeles coming to town this weekend. So, Friday is a 7:30. Saturday is a one:00 game and that’s because Chris Brown is uh performing at Raymond James Stadium and then Sunday 12:00 game. So, the standings Rays, you know, three and seven in their last 10 on a four-game losing streak, obviously coming off of a sweep against the Reds. Still have a plus 54 run differential. I would say it’s surprising, but it’s not surprising because so many of these games that they’ve lost, they’ve been in the lead and then just give it up at the last second. So, it’s not changing too much in terms of run differential, losing games by one or two, things like that. 53 and 53. Somehow found our way back to 500 at the end of June. If I would have said before July is even over, the Rays are going to be at 500. What would you have told me? My goodness, fourth place in the American League East, 10 games back at the Blue Jays. But your glimmer of hope is that the Rays are still only three games behind in the wildard race. Rangers and Mariners are tied for that third spot. Red Sox only five or only half a game above them. Yankees only a game and a half above them. So, I mean, there’s your glimmer of hope. This team has to find a way to lock back in, and it’s a tough thing to do when you’re playing so many games on the road, but it is what it is at this point. Interested to see if this is the only deal that gets done. Looking at my uh glance LED scroller here. The Rays are already up to zero against the Yankees. So once again, making this a quick video. Going to go edit this and watch that at the same time. Carry on with my night. Will there be more moves made before the trade deadline. Trade deadline week, every sport, always entertaining. And the Rays are usually pretty involved. So here we go. Fasten your seat belts. We might be in for one. So, thank you guys so much for watching. Please leave your comments down below. Like and subscribe if you have not already. Go Rays. And y’all have a blessed one. [Applause] Down the left field line. That ball is gone.

In this video, I break down the Tampa Bay Rays’ first big move ahead of the MLB trade deadline — trading catcher Danny Jansen to the Milwaukee Brewers. I dive into what this trade means for the Rays’ catcher position, also adding Nick Fortes bye trade, and how it affects the roster moving forward, and what kind of follow-up moves we could see as the deadline approaches.

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🔹 Full details of the Danny Jansen trade
🔹 Impact on the Rays’ catcher depth
🔹 What this could mean for upcoming trades
🔹 Early trade deadline strategy analysis

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