in-season trades and rumors 2015

barves bought themselves 2014 first-rounder touki toussaint by agreeing to take on bronson arroyo's contract. dave stewart doesn't seem much better at this than kevin towers

@jonmorosi
Sources: #Rangers and #Phillies having ongoing dialogue about Cole Hamels, and he is willing to waive no-trade to Texas

sooooo when do they ask for joey gallo and get laughed out the fuckin room lol

pretty sure ruben is holding out for elvis andrus

The Philadelphia Phillies reportedly agreed to trade outfielder Ben Revere to the Los Angeles Angels in exchange for right-hander Trevor Gott, but Los Angeles backed out of the deal at the last minute. The Angels then tried redirect Philadelphia toward another pitching prospect, according to Nick Cafardo of The Boston Globe.

no relation to former blue jay/pirate/dodger great jim gott

who used to have God-Devil faceoffs vs Tim Teufel

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/07/21/report-tigers-prepared-to-be-sellers-make-david-price-and-yoenis-cespedes-available/

joba to the blue jays on a minor league deal

nationals release jose valverde

gonna be excited when the phillies don't trade papelbon

The story I saw about Chris Johnson wanting the Barves to trade him was the funniest thing I'd seen all month.

http://www.mlbdailydish.com/2015/7/22/9017313/blue-jays-padres-mlb-trade-rumors-kimbrel-ross-cashner-shields-norris-benoit

scott kazmir to houston

@JeffPassan
One other guy whose name is everywhere: Pedro Alvarez. Said one GM: "Pirates want to get rid of him. They're offering him to everybody."

lol

do u want mike napoli for him and a prospect? im sure the sox will eat that

sure -- if the pirates get the prospect instead

i thought u guys had those

@BrinkPG
Sources: Pirates and Brewers nearing agreement on a trade that would send 3B Aramis Ramirez to Pittsburgh.

oh cool, they got the older version of pedro alvarez

a righty-lefty matching pair

12 years to the day since they traded him away

Ken Rosenthal ‏@Ken_Rosenthal 1m1 minute ago
Aramis Ramirez in July: .352/.422/.500 in 64 plate appearances. #Mets were not interested.

smart trade for both the a's and astros

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKoM-2QUsAEwIQM.jpg

those two minor leaguers the a's acquired went from lancaster to stockton -- which are opening a four-game series against each other tonight. they just walked from one clubhouse to the other

Amazing. How often does that even happen?!

every once in a while -- i remember it happened to robbie erlin a few years ago and it was actually his day to start, but his new team opted to give him the night off

stockton started their new catcher, nottingham, tonight -- singled in his first at-bat

Supposedly down to the Jays and Royals for Cueto. Mixed feelings on whether I want the Jays to get him. We're 5.5 out, 3.0 for a wild-card, and who knows what they've offered.

i'd still be wary of his injury history, too. after the last time his arm exploded, didn't everyone say that he'd have to change his delivery? but then he didn't? he's a great pitcher obv, he just seems like a timebomb, like the slightly less fragile brett anderson.

Conor Gillaspie from White Sox to Angels for $$$

hope they get him back like gordon beckham

cishek to the cards for some minor league d00d (kyle barraclough?)

BEARCLAW?

Zack Wheeler being shopped?

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/zack-wheeler-mentioned-mets-trade-talks-source-article-1.2303875

Supposedly down to the Jays and Royals for Cueto. Mixed feelings on whether I want the Jays to get him. We're 5.5 out, 3.0 for a wild-card, and who knows what they've offered.].

The Astros got Kazmir for very little (in a trade within their division no less). Someone is going to similarly overpay for Cueto. Having said that, I think the Jays have to make this trade, it'll cost them Sanchez or Norris but we have 1.5 decent starting pitchers and the offense is built to win now.

... Or next year. Agree the Jays need an upgrade to the rotation. But Norris would be too high a price IMHO.

cueto to royals

Can't wait for Norris to have a hard luck 9-13 record with the 2017 Blue Jays!

If the Jays had been leading or no worse than a game out, I would have been all for getting Cueto at some cost. They're 5.5 out, though; Cueto cannot make that up. If he pitches well, he's worth, what, two or three games the rest of the way? (Teams in the Jays' position who make these moves seem to be putting faith in those dreaded intangibles--that it'll inspire the rest of the team to make up the other three games.) Even if they got (or get) into the playoffs, I just can't see them getting very far.

I think it's a great move for KC; for us, I had my doubts.

cincy got a pretty good return for 11 weeks of cueto

Wow, cishek is deeply religious and was stoked to join the cardinals, weird

I bought tickets last week for Toronto-K.C. Thursday night; just realized that we'll probably see Cueto. The crowd should be interesting if he shuts down Toronto...

#Mets are "making progress" on a trade for OAK's Tyler Clippard, who would be a hell of a setup man for Familia.

uh

http://www.mlbdailydish.com/2015/7/27/9049561/rajai-davis-just-followed-every-cardinals-person-on-twitter

Maybe he merely found the Cardinals Christian Connection (and not only Cardinals among his recent followed accounts):

@LangoschMLB
Christian. Cardinals reporter for http://MLB.com

@RickyH49
Christian. Husband. Father. Son. Brother. Friend. FCA Director. Cardinals Broadcaster

@MattCarp13
Christian, Husband, STL Cardinal, Elkins Knight and TCU Horned Frog 4 life!

@SUGASHANE__21
Christian, Husband, Father, FSU Seminole, Jesuit Tiger, Minnesota Twins

@TrevRosenthal
Official Twitter Page of Trevor Rosenthal, Christian, father, husband and pitcher for St Louis Cardinals 1 Philippians 4:13

@KoltenWong
Offical twitter page of St. Louis Cardinals second baseman. live and play for the man upstairs!

@JMotte30
Follower of Christ, Father, Husband, Son, Friend, and #GoCubsGo John 3:16 Matthew 6:34

brb barfing everywhere

yeah man, barf sandwich every day over here.
it was christian day at the ballpark a week or two ago, apparently. do other teams do that?

lol whuuuuh

the most overt god-bothery shit the sox have at present is a. everything daniel nava ever does ever and b. ortiz and x either crossing themselves or looking to up DA HEAVENS after offensive successes. when schilling was around, not everyone calling him "father curt" meant it as a compliment (on the team and among fans iirc)

victorino to the angels

(btw if the cardinals are outliers for god-bothering, i don't think it's by very much)

Clippard to Mets

alright!

i think 'Faith Day' is the most ive seen in other parks, KM

tulo to blue jays!?!

Dodgers payroll is now at 306 Million, thats ridiculous.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/LAD/2015-payroll-salaries.shtml

it's beautiful

Chase Wrigley?

http://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/7/71/844213/cubs-considering-chase-utley

@TBrownYahoo
Source: Braves close to acquiring Nick Swisher from Indians.

#broves

for chris johnson, it would seem

Swisher + Michael Bourn + $10M for Johnson

napoli to texas

The Jays got Cliff Pennington today, so I assume the Munenori era has come to a close. (He did make a nice double play last night.)

@jonmorosi
Sources: #SFGiants and #Phillies in ongoing talks about Chase Utley trade. Stage is advanced enough that prospect names have been discussed.

Sounds like a panik move to me

is he gonna miss a ton of time, now that he's destroyed my HACKING MASS team?

chutley to the dodgers, apparently

so happy, the Giants don't need him we have Joe Panik, though we do need some bench help. Utley wants playing time, see you later if your not a team player. clark kent has been doing fine...

ummm Panik hasnt played in 2 weeks....

Tomlison has been doing well. 2nd base is hardly a priority at the moment.

tigers acquire randy wolf for $

Haha christ

third in the international league in ERA & K this year! kinda surprised the jays never called him up considering their pitching issues

had no idea he was around

lefties never die

marlon byrd to the giants, as well

Jays are probably mad at Wolf because of his brother!

When I started watching the latest asswhipping last night, Johnny Gomes was a barves; switched to a movie, went back to the game, he's a Royal.

#clubhousepresence

Austin Jackson to Cubs

De Aza to SF

I assume all these happened yesterday before postseason roster deadline?