Mid-season Trades

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Red Sox traded Tibbs

meltdown on SoSH. Devers for Hicks, Harrison, and 2 months of May. The Sox also tossed in a low prospect.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Oh, great. Gusto traded to the Fish as part of the Jesus Sanchez deal. That means we face that SOB again.

[Count Walewski]

Wow the Twins literally traded everyone.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Wow the Twins literally traded everyone.

Buxton and Ryan will be pretty lonely.

[Elvir Ovcina]

Buxton and Ryan will be pretty lonely.

They'll stick out as the only dudes not wearing name tags.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Jeffers too I guess

[Elvir Ovcina]

Jeffers too I guess

Trevor Larnach.  Even writing that name on a name tag is as good as writing "Dickhead" on it - which is accurate.

[imref]

The Padres have pretty much emptied their farm system.

Gone are:
SS Leo De Vries (#1)
RHP Braden Nett (#3)
LHP Boston Bateman (#4)
SS Cobb Hightower (#6)
RHP Ryan Bergert (#7)
RHP Tyson Neighbors (#12)
RHP Henry Baez (#13)
RHP Eduarniel Nunez (#17)
C Brandon Valenzuela (#26)
1B Victor Figueroa (#29)

[JCA-CrystalCity]

Trevor Larnach.  Even writing that name on a name tag is as good as writing "Dickhead" on it - which is accurate.

nickname should be "The Lar Nach Monster."

[IanRubbish]

So are the Orioles heading into a rebuild? Could we get Rutschman?

I'd like to trade owners.

[imref]

I'd like to trade owners.

why?  They let their two top FAs walk after last season and just traded 9 starters for prospects. They don’t seem willing to spend to bolster the young core.

[IanRubbish]

why?  They let their two top FAs walk after last season and just traded 9 starters for prospects. They don’t seem willing to spend to bolster the young core.

That market is not DC, they have to be aggressive in any season where things aren't going their way.  Their attendance is somehow lower than the Nats and they get plenty of away team fans as well.  Ticket prices are also much, much lower there.

Rubenstein has made an effort to get out there and meet fans.  He doesn't send his GM to put BS out to the public while he sits behind a desk like Mini Me does.  Another difference is he made his own money, he is not living in fear of how to divide up his dad's money among siblings and future generations like the Lerners are. 

[blue911]

why?  They let their two top FAs walk after last season and just traded 9 starters for prospects. They don’t seem willing to spend to bolster the young core.

Isn’t this the whole argument against a complete tear down. You can draft,develop and trade for all the talent in the world but if the right free agents aren’t there when it starts to blossom you’re screwed.

[imref]

all 3 relievers the Yankees acquired pitched tonight, all 3 were lit up.

[bluestreak]

The three new relievers pitched 2 2/3 innings and gave up 2 hits and 7 earned runs. The fourth guy they traded for, Jose Cabllero, committed a two-run error.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

The three new relievers pitched 2 2/3 innings and gave up 2 hits and 7 earned runs. The fourth guy they traded for, Jose Cabllero, committed a two-run error.

couldn't happen to a more deserving team

[Count Walewski]

For all you kids out there, that Yankees meltdown against the Marlins is exactly what the 2003 World Series was like. The Yankees came in as the much better team on paper and they looked great until they either had to execute on defense or the Marlins got a baserunner. Luis Castillo would get the cheapest single you can imagine, he'd flinch slightly towards second base, and the Yankees second baseman would panic and throw the pickoff throw into the crowd for some reason. 6 games of that kind of stuff.

[Smithian]

I need to see a study on Padres drafting and amateur acquisitions over past ~12 years because I'm convinced it is the best run any team has ever gone on. They're not just trading prospects, those prospects are going out and dominating. We've had four All Stars alone from the Padres and then you have Max Fried, Josh Naylor, Luis Catillo, and so many others. And they keep having studs hit the majors. It's incredible.

[imref]

For all you kids out there, that Yankees meltdown against the Marlins is exactly what the 2003 World Series was like. The Yankees came in as the much better team on paper and they looked great until they either had to execute on defense or the Marlins got a baserunner. Luis Castillo would get the cheapest single you can imagine, he'd flinch slightly towards second base, and the Yankees second baseman would panic and throw the pickoff throw into the crowd for some reason. 6 games of that kind of stuff.

was that Knobloch?

[welch]

was that Knobloch?

Knobbie wa long gone by then. Von Steingrabber drove him out several years before. Must have been Alfonso Soriano, who was going to be the Next Big Thing. The radio announcers loved him. Had a weakness for swing at pitches up by his hat-brim.

[varoadking]

For all you kids out there, that Yankees meltdown against the Marlins is exactly what the 2003 World Series was like. The Yankees came in as the much better team on paper and they looked great until they either had to execute on defense or the Marlins got a baserunner. Luis Castillo would get the cheapest single you can imagine, he'd flinch slightly towards second base, and the Yankees second baseman would panic and throw the pickoff throw into the crowd for some reason. 6 games of that kind of stuff.

Did you mean the Yankees pitcher?

[imref]

Yankees just optioned Jake Bird to AAA after have gave up 6ER in 2IP across 3 appearances. They gave up two of their top-30 prospects to get him from the Rockies.