Yu Darvish, a major league baseball pitcher from the Cubs, has decided to trade to the Padres.
This was announced by the Cubs and Padres on the 29th, respectively.
That means the Padres will get Darvish and a catcher from the Cubs, and the Cubs will get five from the Cubs, including Zach Davies, who won seven wins this season.
Pitcher Darvish was the first Japanese player to win the most wins this season with eight wins, which was a shortened schedule of 60 games, and was active as a Cubs ace, including finishing second in the Cy Young Award vote.
We signed a 6-year contract with the Cubs from 2018, and the contract period is 3 years left, but this time between Cubs who wants to reduce the total annual salary to rebuild the team and Padres who embarked on a large reinforcement, both pitchers Darvish A large-scale trade in which 7 people move in total has been established.
Pitcher Darvish has traded from the Rangers to the Dodgers in the middle of the 2017 season, making Padres his fourth major league baseball team.
Based in San Diego, California, Padres made it to the playoffs for the first time in 14 years, finishing second in the Western National League this season.
On the 29th, Darvish said in an audio distribution app, "I thought I wouldn't be transferred anymore because Padres won Rays' Snell the day before. I'm lonely because I love the Cubs, but the team Even if it changes, the things to do are the same, so I would like to start making adjustments and welcome next year's camp so as not to get injured. "