What you need to know about the new Red Sox outfielder, Franchy Cordero

Red Sox baseball chief Chaim Bloom made a big move on Wednesday when he negotiated outfielder Andrew Benintendi for the Royals as part of a three-team deal also involving the Mets. In return, Boston hosted outside defender Franchy Cordero, right-handed pitcher Josh Winckowski and three players to be named later.

Here’s what you need to know about Cordero, 26:

The Dominican signed with Padres as an international free agent in November 2011, and then made his professional debut in 2012 with the Dominican Summer League Padres.

The Padres ended up promoting the left-handed scout to their major league list in May 2017, when central defender Manuel Margot was injured. He played 30 games before being sent back to Triple A in El Paso. He was called up again in 2018 and played 40 matches.

He appeared in just nine games by the Fathers in 2019, then traded to Kansas City on July 16, 2020.

Cordero has a .236 / .304 / .433 cut line with 12 home runs and 36 RBIs in 95 games in four MLB campaigns. He has 110 strikes and 28 walks and is 8 out of 11 in attempts to steal bases.

When he was called up in 2017, Cordero started off hot, with 19 hits in the first 17 games, then calmed down with just one hit in 10 games before being sent back to the minors. He ended the season with an impressive .326 / .369 / .603 cutoff line and 17 Triple A level home runs.

In a 2018 season full of injuries, Cordero hit 0.237 strikes with 7 home runs and 19 RBIs in 154 plate games for the Padres.

In 2019, he was 5 out of 15 in limited action, and with the Royals in 2020, he was 8 out of 38 with three doubles and two homers.

At 6 feet 3 inches and 226 pounds, Cordero has an impressive strength that he put on full display when he took a 489 foot home run at Arizona’s Chase Field in April 2018. It ended up being the second longest measured home run that season .

He has two multi-homer games in the main ones: June 13, 2017, against the Reds, and September 23, 2020, against the Cardinals.

He also had tremendous speed and led the minor leagues in triples in 2016 (16) and 2017 (18).

· Cordero lost significant time with injuries to his quadriceps, groin, wrist and elbow. He started the 2018 season on the disabled list with a groin injury, was limited to nine games in 2019 because of an elbow injury and played in only 16 games during the short 2020 season because of a wrist problem. .

Bloom referred to these setbacks as “a series of different injuries, many of which appear to be of a strange nature”.

The Red Sox are probably willing to bet on Cordero’s health because of its positive side. Few players have the combination of strength and speed that has allowed them to lead the minor leagues in triples and post six seasons with double-digit steals.

That speed helped him become an excellent defensive outfielder, catching 95 percent of the balls hit in 2017 by mlb.com.

While he hits at high speed, Cordero hits the ball to the cover when he makes contact. His 489-foot home run left the baton at 116.3 miles per hour, by Statcast, and he set a Padres record a few days later with a line drive that reached 116.5 miles per hour.

The scouts indicate that he needs to work on reconnaissance to become a more consistent hitter, but he clearly has the physical gifts to become a dangerous hitter.

His cousin, Sócrates Brito, played for the Diamondbacks and Blue Jays, and signed a secondary league contract with the Yankees this year.