Milwaukee Brewers Send Reliable Starting Pitcher to New York Mets in Pre-Holiday Trade

According to multiple insiders, the Milwaukee Brewers are trading reliable veteran pitcher Adrian Houser and outfielder Tyrone Taylor to the New York Mets for a prospect.

The Milwaukee Brewers and New York Mets have swung a pre-holiday trade which nets the Mets a reliable veteran starting pitcher.

Ken Rosenthal of 'The Athletic' and Robert Murray of 'Fansided' had the information on the trade and the return.

The Brewers are acquiring right-handed pitcher Coleman Crow for pitcher Adrian Houser and outfielder Tyrone Taylor. This deal makes sense given the ties between the organizations. New Mets President of Baseball Operations David Stearns used to run Milwaukee and is familiar with both Houser and Taylor.

Right-hander Coleman Crow is going to the Brewers in this trade, sources say. https://t.co/RPRTuGrHHs

— Robert Murray (@ByRobertMurray) December 20, 2023

The 30-year-old Houser is the biggest name in the deal, and he will instantly help the Mets rebuild a starting rotation that traded away Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer at the trade deadline.

Houser has spent parts of seven years in the big leagues with the Brewers, going 31-34 with a 4.00 ERA. He won a career-high 10 games back in 2021 and went 8-5 this past season as the Brewers won the National League Central again.

As of this moment, Houser will join Kodai Senga, Jose Quintana and Luis Severino in the Mets rotation. The team is hoping to land Japanese ace pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto in free agency also.

He'll be a free agent at the end of the season, which could be why the Brewers elected to move him. This deal does give the Brewers some more questions in their starting rotation. They've already lost Brandon Woodruff to injury and a subsequent non-tender.

Taylor is 29-years-old and is a career .239 hitter with 41 home runs.

Crow is the No. 25 prospect in the organization now, according to MLB.com. The following comes from his MLB.com prospect profile:

While none of Crow’s pitches jump off the page, the undersized right-hander does have four different ones with a very good sense of how to use them. His fastball averaged only around 90 mph in 2022, touching 94, but it plays up and gets a lot of ground-ball outs because of its sink. He throws his low-80s slider almost nearly as much as the fastball and it comes with very high spin rates to miss bats in and out of the zone. He can fold in a slower upper-70s curveball at times and his changeup flashes above-average-to-plus as well.

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