summer trade deadline 2014

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."

(obv not an analogy that really holds up)

sam fuld to oakland for tommy milone

BB may not stop all day!

Dave Cameron of Fangraphs reports another wrinkle in the trade: Cespedes’ contract calls for him to be non-tendered at the end of his deal (if he is not first extended) in order to assure him early free agency, and he therefore is ineligible to receive a qualifying offer following the 2015 season.

billy beane may not win the ws this year but he has won the internet on this day, for sure

http://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/imported_assets/2307208/320x325_OAK_La_Potencia_Shirt.jpg

SOURCES: lackey to be reunited with pierzynski in st. louis

...still can't score

Dodgers said to be frontrunners for Joaquin Benoit

joe kelly, allen craig to boston for lackey

front office tying matheny's hands!

so it's almost like Oscar Taveras is a throw-in!

matheny now furiously trying to right jon jay into CF and RF

I can't wait to see the A's eliminated in 4 games by the Tigers.

need to trade buchholz and theyd of traded their entire starting rotation?

red sox FO is fucking crazy

2012 - MASSIVE SELL-OFF
2013 - Win the fucking world series
2014 - MASSIVE SEL-OFF

this is like the marlins but with money and brains

lack had to have said to boston in no uncertain terms that he wouldnt pitch for $500k next year

Andrew Miller about to be peddled to Tigers?

Asdrubal Cabrera going somewhere

there's no fucking way lackey plays for 500k next year - hes gonna hang retirement over whoever's head

The Braves want Andrew Miller badly (if that's the lefty reliever I'm thinking of) but it looks like the price tag in prospects may be too high.

fake joel sherman twitter account making everyone look like assholes

The Brewers have acquired OF Gerardo Parra from Arizona in exchange for OF Mitch Haniger and LHP Anthony Banda