summer trade deadline 2014

it's only a couple years old. kind of intersting because the competitive balance picks can be traded, unlike regular picks

giants rumored to have interest in bartolo :

the couple times i saw bartolo take the plate (he was with the A's, playing an interleague game) were amazing. I'm not sure he even lifted the bat.

morbs and i saw him get a hit a few weeks ago!

Yeah, I was gonna say, didn't he have a comedy double recently?

heh just watched the video. He basically jogs all the way the 2nd

all the way TO second

Soria to Detroit for two prospects the 85-year-old owner does not care about.

relievers are curiously expensive this month

The Seattle Mariners made a move to upgrade one of baseball's weakest offenses Thursday when they acquired Kendrys Morales from the Minnesota Twins in a trade for relief pitcher Stephen Pryor.

-0.7 war in 39 games; quite an upgrade

Just needed to get away from the media circus in MN.

he'll flourish outside the cavernous target field

@MLBRosterMoves
The @SFGiants acquire RHP Jake Peavy from @RedSox for LHP Edwin Escobar, RHP Heath Hembree. http://atmlb.com/1AjDOmJ #OnTheMove

what? wow, Matt Cain has to be done this year.

Good trade for the Giants. Peavy in an N.L. pitchers park = a risk worth taking.

good trade for the sox -- escobar's having a bad year, but he's still a much better prospect than i'd have thought they could get for peavy

Fangraph's article on the Peavy / Escobar Hembree deal

btw Chris Capuano and his sculpted calves to the Bronx

Tulo to Mets rumors

http://www.amazinavenue.com/2014/7/28/5944829/mets-trade-rumors-tulowitzki-troy-noah-syndergaard

Rockies misspelling his promo jerseys lol

What's the breached unspoken rule?

just attending a game not involving your own team while on the DL i think

Darwin Barney to the Dodgers for a player to be named later.

the Dodgers don't even need a second baseman but the Giants do...

The Royals and Blue Jays completed a three-player trade Monday evening, and while the deal wasn't a blockbuster by any means, both clubs added potential contributors for the stretch run.

Kansas City received right-hander Liam Hendricks and catcher Erik Kratz in return for infielder Danny Valencia, according to Ken Rosenthal.

the logistics of being traded mid-season: http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=24273

@robertbrender Bob Nightengale is reporting the Phillies asked the Dodgers for Joc Pederson, Corey Seager and Julio Urias in exchange for Cole Hamels.

lol

Not to say they're super similar but this trade deadline is like 08 when the pirates wanted like kemp and kershaw for maholm or duke or some piece of shit. Basically every team asked for kemp and kershaw now matter how shitty the target was

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/instagraphs/on-the-report-of-the-phillies-asking-price-for-cole-hamels

amaro is welcome to ask for whatever he wants, but that's silly. that's the entire dodgers system! three of the top 25 prospects in the game!

no one will pay anywhere near that much, and the phillies will be left with one more aging star and no prospects

Lester won't be pitching for the Red Sox tomorrow.

no actual trade being reported tho.

Bucs-Bosox blockbuster?

The Pirates are willing to part with a club source called a “significant” package of prospects in a trade but don’t want to give up their very best minor leaguers because they would have Lester only for the short term.

The Pirates are willing to trade any of their prospects except right-handers Tyler Glasnow, Nick Kingham and Jameson Taillon, catcher Reese McGuire and outfielders Josh Bell and Austin Meadows.

Among the significant prospects the Pirates apparently would be willing to give up — in some combination — are right-handers Luis Heredia and Adrian Sampson, third baseman Wyatt Mathisen, shortstops Alen Hanson and Jacoby Jones and outfielder Harold Ramirez.

The potential exists for a blockbuster trade. The Pirates also have interest in a pair of Red Sox relievers — closer Koji Uehara and left-hander Andrew Miller — and right-handed hitting outfielder Jonny Gomes to platoon with rookie right fielder Gregory Polanco. Uehara, Miller and Carp are also eligible for free agency in November.

http://www.timesonline.com/sports/pirates/pirates-interested-in-lester-maybe-more-from-red-sox/article_278710eb-b95e-5fc8-a0ca-d1b4c71d0439.html#.U9jKsrMcF-8.twitter

MLB Trade Rumors:

The Cardinals and Dodgers are the two teams that are most aggressively competing for Lester’s services, according to Jon Heyman of CBS Sports. They’re also the most aggressive clubs on David Price, though it’s far from a given that the Rays will move their own left-handed ace.

An NL GM told Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe that he thinks the Cardinals, Pirates, Dodgers and Mariners are the primary suitors for Lester heading into Wednesday.

fuc a jonny gomes

Gomes will totally get u over 40% on BP playoff odds

The pirates are willing to trade any of their prospects except the ones who are good

sounds like masterson to st. louis for blocked outfield prospect james ramsey +/- others

Indians rumored to be pursuing Lackey, Oakland same w/ Lester

Masterton to Cards is official.

hmm...ramsey was definitely locked up so good to see them make a move, but i'm not so excited about masterson. his fastball has lost 2.6 MPH in the last year(!), and his best velocity games in 2014 barely eclipses his worst velocity game in 2013. :-/

uh

lester & gomes to oakland for yoenis cespedes?

O_O whoa

wow waht

cespedes is a free agent after next season, so i guess it's not that crazy but jeez

red sox colors are too bland for yoenis

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bt4KF5LCEAAxu1u.jpg

pretty nice playoff rotation for the A's, and Yoenis perhaps not quite the slugger we thought he was. Ya gotta watch that Beane.

8:54am: Passan tweets that Oakland is also sending a competitive balance draft pick to the A’s in the trade, and Boston is sending cash to Oakland. The A’s landed the second pick in Comp Round B in last week’s lottery.

ya seems like its knowing they wont be able to pay him in arbitration after next yr and preferring to deal yoenis rather than another prospect, makes reasonable sense

cespedes family bbq having a crisis

whoa

Seen on twitter: "Billy Beane's shit doesn't work in the playoffs, so he's trying George Steinbrenner's."