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The Milwaukee Brewers completed a trade with the Kansas City Royals on Monday. Milwaukee traded outfielder/first baseman Mark Canha on March 21st for a player to be named later. The deal was completed on Monday as the Brewers acquired 19-year-old hurler Cesar Espinal from the Royals, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Curt Hogg.
"The Brewers have acquired right-hander Cesar Espinal as the player to be named in the Mark Canha trade with the Royals," Hogg said. "Espinal, 19, has a 3.95 career minor-league ERA in three seasons pitching in the Dominican Summer League.
" He made his professional debut in 2022 at just 16 years old for the Orioles Black Dominican Summer League team. He had a 5.49 ERA across 11 outings.
In 2023, he had a 3.18 ERA across nine outings with the Orioles Orange Domincan Summer League Team. Last year, he had a 3.
72 ERA in 11 outings with the Royals Ventura and Royals Fortuna Dominican Summer League teams. Espinal isn't a big-name prospect, but he's just 19 years old and has 3.95 ERA in 31 total professional appearances so far, including 13 games started.
Milwaukee has done a phenomenal job in recent years developing prospects. He's now another young guy for the Brewers to try to bring through the farm system. Canha is having a great start to the season so far for the Royals, but Milwaukee has plenty of outfield depth so it's not shocking it moved on.
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