Blue Jays get bullpen help by adding Mark Lowe in trade with Mariners

With the aces already off the market, a lot of attention will be paid to relief pitching on MLB trade-deadline day.

While we wait to see if the bigger names, such as Aroldis Chapman and Craig Kimbrel get moved, the Toronto Blue Jays got in on the action and acquired Mark Lowe in a trade with the Seattle Mariners.

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The Jays are giving up three minor leaguers: Nick Wells, Jacob Brentz and Rob Rasmussen. None of them are considered a high-level prospect.

Lowe isn’t the biggest name in the relief-pitching world, but he’s enjoying a revival this season in Seattle. And his numbers show he should help what’s been a shaky bullpen in Toronto. The 32-year-old veteran has a 1.00 ERA in 34 appearances this season, giving up just four earned runs in 36 innings while working the seventh or eighth inning for the Mariners. His strikeout-per-nine-innings rate is a wowing 11.8. The Blue Jays will take that.

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Toronto’s bullpen ERA is 3.36, but that stands to drop with the additions of Lowe and LaTroy Hawkins, who came over in the Troy Tulowitzki trade. The Jays also got Aaron Sanchez back last week. With their splashy moves this week — getting Tulowitzki and David Price — shoring up the bullpen is a necessity if the Jays want to be a well-rounded team come September.

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