Cubs Complete Travis Lakins Trade
The Cubs have sent minor league catcher Jhonny Pereda to the Boston Red Sox to complete a January 21st trade in which the Cubs acquired RHRP Travis Lakins from the Red Sox for Future Considerations. (Lakins had been Designated for Assignment by the Red Sox on 1/17).
The Cubs then lost Lakins off waivers to the Baltimore Orioles (who have the #2 MLB waiver claim priority) ten days later when the Cubs attempted to remove him from the MLB 40-man roster to make room on the 40 for free-agent RHRP Jeremy Jeffress.
Pereda was signed by the Cubs as a 16-year old IFA out of Venezuela in 2013, and he spent seven seasons in the Cubs system (first two with VSL Cubs, then two with AZL Cubs, and then one each at South Bend, Myrtle Beach and Tennessee).
While the 23-year old Pereda hit just 241/336/305 at AA this past season, he did win the 2019 Rawlings Minor League Gold Glove Award as the top defensive catcher in the minors. He was eligible to be a minor league 6YFA post-2019 but signed a 2020 minor league successor contract that kept him under Cubs club control for another season, and he also received an NRI to MLB Spring Training.
Pereda was projected to be the back-up catcher at AAA Iowa in 2020 with legit potential to be an MLB back-up catcher, and is (once-again) eligible to be a minor league 6YFA after the season.
Presuming there are no other "future considerations" still pending from the Lakins trade, the Cubs essentially exchanged Pereda for $50,000 (the waiver price they received from the Orioles for Lakins).
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