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This week, host Darragh McDonald is joined by Tim Dierkes, Steve Adams and Anthony Franco of MLB Trade Rumors to discuss…
- Is the lack of sellers going to be an issue this year and going forward with the expanded playoffs? (2:10)
- The White Sox could sell Garrett Crochet, Luis Robert Jr., Erick Fedde, Michael Kopech, John Brebbia and others (6:30)
- The Marlins have Jazz Chisholm Jr., Tanner Scott, A.J. Puk, Bryan De La Cruz, Jesús Sánchez and others possibly available (16:40)
- Will the Athletics move Brent Rooker and what is his value? (22:35)
- Will the Rockies trade Cal Quantrill, Austin Gomber and others? (36:00)
- Will the Angels trade Taylor Ward, Luis Rengifo, Tyler Anderson, Griffin Canning? (49:05)
- The Cubs and Jameson Taillon (51:35)
- The Tigers and Jack Flaherty and Tarik Skubal (59:55)
- Would the Orioles get Flaherty again? If not him, what other impact starting pitchers are possibly available? (1:05:35)
- The Rays and Randy Arozarena, Isaac Paredes, Pete Fairbanks, Zach Eflin, Zack Littell and others (1:15:10)
- The Blue Jays will trade rentals but what about Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Chris Bassitt, Kevin Gausman or George Springer? (1:22:00)
- How will the Yankees approach the deadline? Will they remake their infield? If so, how? (1:30:40)
- How aggressive will the Orioles be at the deadline? (1:40:10)
- How useful his ERA these days? (1:46:55)
- The Braves and the deadline (1:51:20)
- The Dodgers and the Phillies (1:53:30)
- The Guardians and Brewers (1:56:25)
- The Twins and the deadline (1:58:20)
- The Royals and their outfield (1:59:40)
- The Pirates (2:03:30)
Check out our past episodes!
- Top Trade Candidates, Hunter Harvey To KC And The Current State Of The Rays And Mets – listen here
- Brewers’ Pitching Needs, Marlins Rumors And The Nats Prepare To Sell – listen here
- The Rays Could Deal Starters, Garrett Crochet, James Wood And Free Agent Power Rankings – listen here
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MLBTR must be running out of pictures of Crochet.
To be fair, he didn’t pitch much before this season, so there are only so many photos out there.
The length of Atkins’ contract is irrelevant because he is gone after this season. Someone has to take the “blame” and that will be him even though we all know that Shapiro is pulling the strings.
With that said, if they can get ANYONE to take Springer or Bassitt then jump at it. Springer already had his career peak when he signed so every year under contract will just be worse than the one before. Bassitt is all about being able to through 8 or 9 mediocre pitches when the focus should be on throwing 3 or 4 good pitches. Bad contracts they need to dump.
Shapiro/Atkins by the numbers:
Seasons – 9
Playoff wins – 0
Payroll – Top 10
Farm system – Bottom 10
Current standings – Bottom 10
They cant be graded for 9 years if you don’t count the playoff wins in 2016. It’s zero playoff wins since they’ve exited their rebuild though.
They would have no problem finding someone to take Bassitt, why did you include him with Springer like it’s the same thing.
Cashman and Boone are gone if the Yankees don’t do well!
lol
You Yankee fans have been posting comments like that every year about this time since Boone got hired.
True, but we really mean it this time. Right everyone?
I follow another AL team but I’ll make my best guess. If the NYY fall short or quickly exit the postseason, Boone gets the boot while Cashman gets more unlimited job security.
I really don’t think a lack of sellers will be a problem. The teams that are selling have a lot of talent to unload. The Marlins could trade all kinds of guys. The White Sox have plenty of players to move. The Nationals again lots of players to trade. The Angels could make a lot of deals. I think the teams that do sell are going to clean house and make up for the lack of sellers.
Rooker to Philly as a consolation prize for balking at Robert’s asking price
Phillies need one more platoon bat after this (to pair with marsh) to be ready for October
Thanks for the content fellas
Nice podcast. There is a caveat to the Tigers trading Flaherty. Right now they have three healthy starters with Flaherty. Trade him and you are down to two. They might just need to keep Flaherty for that reason alone.
They’re only trading Flaherty if they’ve given up on the season, in which case calling up a starter from Toledo wouldn’t make much of a difference.
They will trade Jack for the best offer. Tjey have Faedo; Brieske; Lockhart and possibly Jobe at some point. You have to get something for Jack, unless they were to decide to extend him. However, extending him this close to the deadline seems unlikely.
the lack of discussion of the giants is kind of a miss – they are inching towards a teardown as was mentioned by farhan shortly ago and have a ton of rental pieces. if they decide to be sellers they could become the biggest player store on the market
They really only have 2 true rentals in Cobb and Conforto. Rest of roster is littered with guys who have player options or still have yrs of team control.
Not saying they should not try and sell on some of these players. It’s just not a situation with a bunch of Flaherty types who are true rentals people are clamoring for.
Ward and Canning don’t have much trade value, but the Angels should take what they can get for Canning. If Ward can get over his aversion to getting hit in the face, he should be able to increase his value for a winter trade.
Will the Angels trade Taylor Ward, Luis Rengifo, Tyler Anderson, Griffin Canning? No, Yes, Yes, and maybe.
Giants need to do something, sell? Buy? Another deadline where they stand pat would be a typical Giants thing. I’d love Doval if the right offer was there, same as Wade Jr, Flores, Estrada and Yaz again if there was a reasonable offer, move Chapman, move Jackson. Just do something to make the future better
The Cardinals’ big moves need to be internal and they won’t be popular. Goldy needs to sit against righthanded pitchers. Gorman needs to go to AAA. Our offense isn’t strong enough to carry them. If the Cardinals are serious about making the playoffs, those are the “coldblooded” moves that need to be made.
They should also bring Austin Gomber back. His appeal is the price. But he’s a better option than Liberatore to make a spot start since the Cardinals clearly have no intention of giving their guys in Memphis a chance.
Beyond that, they should just hold. This team isn’t worth trading away future assets. No matter what Arizona did last year, no mater what the Cardinals did in 2006, this team isn’t those teams.
I think the word you are looking for is “Rebuild”.
No Cardinal fan likes to hear the word rebuild, which has slowly weakened this franchise. I agree with DonOsbourne above but I’d blow up the roster in a white flag trade scenario and move on from Arenado, Goldy, Contreras, Lynn, Mikolas etc. They just won’t because they have a lame duck GM.
Red Sox should trade house for Vlad Jr.
That whole org needs a face lift
He’s the most overrated player in baseball
He’s 25 years old, has an MVP calibre season under his belt and this year has a 143 wrc+ and that’s with a slow start.
There is 3-4 guys in the league who can hit the ball as hard as him. I’m sure if you really tried you can find a lot more players who are more overrated
Vlad is not terrible by any means. But his OPS over the past 3 years is .813. But he can’t field or run. I’d have no problem trading for him, but it wouldn’t include any of our top three.
And Toronto wouldn’t trade him for anything less then a couple top 3 prospects.
Especially to a division rival.
This trade deadline needs an actual trade, or even a juicy rumor today to get things moving. Only 6 days remaining and a whole bunch of theories, which leads me to believe the deadline might be slower than usual (e.g. the White Sox ask for too much on Crochet and Robert and no one bites, leading to July 30th scramble but not much before then). Hope I’m wrong, would be great to get something going today for the weekend.
The Phillies have an issue with more then an outfielder. Brandon Marsh is horrible going back of fly balls with terrible wall work. It’s time to decide what’s more important. A championship or club house culture. Keeping Stubbs over Marchan was a mistake. His bat plays from both sides of plate. Marsh is an ok outfielder and can’t hit left handed pitchers. There is not a closer on the team and whoever they run out there is a 50/50 chance to shut the opponents bats down. Luis Robert’s is a must have. Tanner Scott is a must have, and Randy Arozarena is a must have. These are the changes that will potentially put you over the top. Now what prospects are in touchable? Two Crawford and Painter. Why there paths aren’t blocked in two years.
Phillies do not want Luis Robert, period
Lane Thomas is a good fit and the Phillies should try to get that done as long as catcher Eduardo Tait is not in the deal.
The Phillies farm is such that no position. prospect should be available.
I like the passion, and hope some of this happens. I wonder if the Phils can get Robert without giving up Crawford, however. Maybe Miller and some others – the Phils farm is pretty strong but may be wiped out by your suggestions above (worth it if they win the WS).
Aro & Scott are fine targets, but will cost you real prospects. I know Painter is injured, but no one in A, A+, or AA could touch the guy. Unless you see a problem with his recovery, I think he is untradeble.
The Phillies window is now through 2025, so it needs to be someone that is controllable and can play any of the 3 OF positions if necessary, but preferably CF. While Robert ability wise would be ideal, not sure the additional payroll of $20M a year works. Are the better off acquiring role players like a Tommy Pham or the Lane Thomas like suggested above.?
Acquring Skubal will require the Dodgers to make major sacrifices.
“I think from the Dodgers’ perspective, I think you’d have to include potentially some Major League-level talent. That’s where it’s going to have to really sting for the Dodgers that the Tigers might well ask for a (Gavin) Stone, they might ask for (Miguel) Vargas or (Andy) Pages in addition to (Dalton) Rushing. It’s gonna have to be a massive deal,” Morosi said.
Dealing with the Dodgers is always dangerous…they don’t lose trades…not ever in my memory anyway. The O’s did not bring up Holliday to replace their injured SS….that red-flags him. If they are
afraid to expose him to MLB pitching after his first flame-out, that
should tell you they’ve built him up in the press but don’t trust him. So what about the dreaded Dodgers? I don’t know about any of the guys Morosi mentions so it’s on Harris not to get burned (again like with Rodriguez). All in all, why not keep both Skubal and Flaherty,and be a BUYER? they have plenty of talent in the bushes….deal some and get another starter and a SS who can hit!
So the Yanks think they can lure Detroit into giving them Skubal for Jasson Dominguez, Spencer Jones, and Ben Rice? HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!