Austin Wade Meadows is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball. He has previously played in MLB for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Tampa Bay Rays. Today we will discuss about Austin Meadows: Trade grade| Brother| Trade
Austin Meadows: Trade grade| Brother| Trade
The Rays went into the offseason and came out of the lockout talking about trading either Meadows or centerfielder Kevin Kiermaier as a way to clear salary and create more flexibility among their outfield options.
Trade grade
Tigers trade grade: A-
The Tigers are going all in to compete in the AL Central this season, and that is evident by the move for Meadows. He made a name for himself in the 2019 season, being named to the All Star team in his first full season with the Rays. Meadows only played in 36 games in the truncated 2020 season. This past season, he recorded a .234 batting average and a .772 OPS, but hit 27 home runs and knocked in 106 runs.
Detroit is obviously banking on Meadows to return to his 2019 form. Perhaps what makes the deal more favorable for the Tigers is that the outfielder is under team control for the next three seasons before he hits unrestricted free agency. Either way, it shows that the Tigers are all-in on competing for their first postseason berth since 2014.
Brother
Parker Meadows The younger brother of current Pirates prospect Austin Meadows, Parker doesn’t have the same hype coming out of Georgia that his older brother did as a high schooler in 2013, but as a 6-foot-4 outfielder with a bevy of tools he still has a lot of teams interested
Trade
Detroit sent infielder Isaac Paredes and a competitive balance round B pick in the 2022 amateur draft to Tampa Bay for Meadows, who hit .234 with 27 homers and a career-high 106 RBIs last season.
Detroit is much improved after going 77-85 last year in its fifth consecutive losing season. Meadows joins a lineup that includes Javier Baez, who signed a blockbuster deal with the Tigers in free agency, and Spencer Torkelson, one of the majors’ top slugging prospects
