{"id":845183,"date":"2026-08-04T00:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T00:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/845183\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T00:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T00:40:11","slug":"guardians-add-left-handed-pop-with-nathaniel-lowe-reds-get-raw-prospect-mlb-trade-grades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/845183\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians add left-handed pop with Nathaniel Lowe, Reds get raw prospect: MLB trade grades"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nathaniel<\/p>\n

Nathaniel Lowe has a history of success against right-handers. Albert Cesare \/ Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Aug. 3, 2026 Updated 8:05 pm EDT<\/p>\n

The Athletic has live coverage of the 2026 MLB Trade Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The trade<\/p>\n

Cleveland Guardians get: 1B Nathaniel Lowe
Cincinnati Reds get: RHP Alejandro Rivera<\/p>\n

Offense-starved Guardians settle for half-measure solution<\/p>\n

Guardians: C+
Reds: B-<\/p>\n

The Guardians have the lowest OPS in baseball. Is a left-handed, platoon first baseman going to fix that? Between Lowe and right-handed addition Jo Adell, the Guardians basically added one good hitter at the deadline. Each can be productive in a platoon, but each is stretched in an everyday role. Lowe could be the third first baseman on the roster \u2014 along with Kyle Manzardo and Rhys Hoskins \u2014 but those two have significantly underperformed, and Lowe at least crushes righties. It\u2019s a nice addition, even if it feels like another half-hearted attempt to address an ongoing offensive problem.<\/p>\n

As for the Reds, they turned one solid year of Lowe into a lottery ticket. Rivera is a 19-year-old with good numbers and a long, long way to go.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Chad Jennings<\/p>\n

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Play today’s puzzle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nathaniel Lowe has a history of success against right-handers. Albert Cesare \/ Imagn Images Aug. 3, 2026 Updated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":845184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,3983,491,462,82],"class_list":["post-845183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}