summer trade deadline 2014

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

really like parra as a player. very underrated.

then again he won a gold glove so not super underrated lol

I'm trying desperately to find a GIF, or even just a still image, of that "snake strike" hand thingy the Diamondbacks did in the 2011 post-season. Can any Arizona fans help me out? How is there no photographic evidence of this gesture?

http://www.arizonasports.com/emedia/apimage/ap_32b4c6e24f657513540f6a706700923e.jpg
http://i.azcentral.com/i/sized/C/4/4/e298/j350/PHP4E8E6BF54644C.jpg

that?

yes thanks!

Cardinals deal Allen Craig and Joe Kelly to Boston for John Lackey

http://www.vivaelbirdos.com/2014/7/31/5956003/breaking-news-cardinals-deal-allen-craig-and-joe-kelly-to-boston-for

my gut reaction is YESSSSSS

i don't even know that much about lackey

he beat you guys to win the world series last year iirc

the phillies aren't going to trade anyone, are they

loved this reaction I read to the Denorfia trade

"Can't believe they traded him to their inter-league rival"

asdrubal to nationals

andrew miller to orioles

i thought the byrd thing happened? to yankees? i have not been paying good attention today