trade deadline 2019

apparently there’s a brawl in the reds game and puig is in the middle of it because no one told him he’s been traded

Has a pitcher charged a dugout before?

that trade is p crazy. trying to wrap my head around what each team is trying to accomplish.

i can see what the ohio teams are trying to do, even if it’s weird

padres seem a lot higher on taylor trammell than anyone else is. maybe they’re right, but i’m skeptical

Was actually surprised they gave up slugger Franmil Reyes (no idea if his defense is a liability though)

yeah the consensus seems to be that reyes should be a DH

most of the analyses i'm seeing are framing this as a win-win-win trade

It makes a lot of sense for the Indians, after seeing who they get in return. For the Reds and Padres, not so much, I'm still a bit confused.

Reds have a bunch of outfielders right now and getting rid of Puig opens up a slot. They now have a couple months to see what Josh Van Meter and Phil Ervin can do, as both have seemed promising at times.

From what I am gathering is that Trammell's AA struggles and his throwing arm might have made him slide to the one to go.

I think the take is that Bauer is a re-load for next years rotation. Would not be surprised if Tanner Roark moves on today.

puig's contract is up at the end of this year, while bauer's goes through next season
padres have way too many infielders so reyes wasn't going to get enough playing time, particularly given his weak defense

i agree san diego's take seems light but those are the comments i've seen

does this make Cleveland better right now tho? they gave up a solid SP for two decent outfielders (one who should be a DH) and prospects. they def came out on top in this deal, imho, but this looks like a half measure in two directions. was Bauer that expendable for them?

cleveland desperately needed outfield/DH power and they're banking a little too much on kluber and/or carrasco returning strong

but mostly they didn't want to pay bauer $20+ million in his final year of arbitration next season and this gives them a face-saving way out

The Mets took Syndergaard “off the trade market last night,” according to Joel Sherman of the New York Post.

okay

Right-hander Jacob Faria is headed back to the Milwaukee Brewers in the Jesus Aguilar deal, a source tells ESPN.

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) July 31, 2019

looking at what the indians just got for bauer just reinforces the consensus:

the blue jays really fucked up badly with stroman

up there with cardinals trading away Tommy Pham for a good reliever, last year

i think it's pretty cool that the reds and mets are making bold moves toward competing next year or making outlandish runs this year! i think they might be kidding themselves, but at least it's fun

pretty fuckin weird how all these first-place teams with obvious holes didn't make better offers tho

tony kemp to the cubs, martin maldonado to the astros

sucks that i have to root against tony kemp now

tanner ro-ark to the a's

Can confirm #Brewers sending Mauricio Dubon to #SFGiants for Pomeranz and Ray Black

— Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) July 31, 2019

pretty fuckin weird how all these first-place teams with obvious holes didn't make better offers tho

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it also doesn't seem like there are many truly available great options this season

like my big hope for the cubs would be signing ... whit merrifield

i guess the bright side on pomeranz is that surely his 1.97 HR/9 will drop (?)

http://proxy.espn.com/mlb/stats/parkfactor?sort=HRFactor&order=false

yeoooooooow

i knew that miller park was a hitters park and oracle is not, but did not realize oracle is by far the lowest HRs/game in the game. so yeah, this could get pretty ugly

but even then, even in an extreme hitters park, you'd hope that he won't continue giving up 1.97 HR/game, because that is awful. maybe he has been incredibly unlucky this year?

you know a pitcher is good when you have to count on them being incredibly unlucky so far and for that bad luck to suddenly stop, in order for them to be a viable SP

impressive move by the giants to unload both pomeranz and melancon

#Cubs get Nicholas Castellanos, source tells The Athletic.

— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) July 31, 2019

Rays, marlins deal: Jesus Sanchez and ryne stanek for nick anderson and Trevor Richards

— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) July 31, 2019

Aaron Sanchez to Astros

— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) July 31, 2019

greinke to the stros

wow

whoa

scooter gennett to the gnats

The Astros are fucking stacked

#MNTwins acquire Sam Dyson from Giants.

— Dan Hayes (@DanHayesMLB) July 31, 2019

Your 2019 leaders in WHIP:
1-Justin Verlander 0.81
2-Zack Greinke 0.94
5-Gerrit Cole 1.00

That's your Game 1-2-3 starters in Houston. Scary.

— Jayson Stark (@jaysonst) July 31, 2019

Astros heavy favorites unless injury strikes. Holy shit

you know a pitcher is good when you have to count on them being incredibly unlucky so far and for that bad luck to suddenly stop, in order for them to be a viable SP

the Brewers are incredibly desperate for starting pitching right now

Jedd don’t call me Gyorko apparently headed to Dodgers

xp I see that!

I mean three of their SP went on the DL within a week, including the one guy who wasn't a horrible disappointment

Greinke signed through '21. Is making $31.5M this year, will be paid $32M in '20 and '21.

— Alyson Footer (@alysonfooter) July 31, 2019

This year's Astros vs Dodgers World Series rematch will be epic.

none of this makes the jays look good

Tanner Roark to A's

wonder if the prospects the Astros sent were any good, they're probably just thrilled to be rid of that contract. they got a playoff game out of it at least.

still bummed that Seth Beer hasn't come to the Brewers (yet)

arizona gets houston's 3rd, 4th, 5th and like 20th best prospects. hate to not get tucker or whitley, and bukauskas has had a rough season, but that's pretty good

also: fuck the pirates

weird day for dombrowski