Gose Gone

Wednesday, November 12 2014 @ 11:39 PM EST

Contributed by: John Northey

Via MLB Trade Rumors: The Blue Jays announced that they have acquired second base prospect Devon Travis from the Tigers in exchange for center fielder Anthony Gose.

Typical AA - a trade that comes out of nowhere, that no one would've ever thought about.

Travis is entering his age 24 season, drafted in 2012 and is viewed as one of, if not the top prospect in the Tigers system (BA has him as #1).  239 games at 2B in the minors just 3 in CF but the Tigers were converting him to CF on a permanent basis due to his being blocked at the ML level there.  I suspect the Jays will shift him back to 2B though unless his defense there is poor.  In AA he hit 298/358/460 before going down with an injury (not seen as a serious one long term).  Was rated the #84 prospect in MLB pre-2014 by BA.  Steamer at FanGraphs sees him as a 273/320/401 hitter if in the majors for 2015, with a 2.3 fWAR which would be a big improvement at 2B.

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