trade deadline 2019

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

― mookieproof, Wednesday, July 31, 2019 11:54 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

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

return for gyorko is tony cingrani, who is still a professional baseball player, and jeffry abreu, who i know nothing about, and is 19

somehow i missed castellanos to the cubes

Pablo Sandoval is trying to trick reporters by walking around and hugging teammates goodbye. He fooled @extrabaggs “for an eighth of a second”

— Stephanie Apstein (@stephapstein) July 31, 2019

@MartinJGallegos Tanner Roark told Cincinnati reporters he was sitting in an Arby’s parking lot eating a Beef n Cheddar and curly fries when he found out about the trade to the A’s.

my man

glad it wasn't that silly chili

Braves get right-handed closer Shane Greene from the Tigers for left-hander Joey Wentz and outfielder Travis Demeritte.

Today's game a good example of how badly they need that closer.

I will be bandwagoning hard for Greinke to earn a World Series title.

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One of Dombrowski's strangest quotes of the day: "If we can get in and play a one-game playoff -- for example, Houston made big trades today. They’re really good. They were good beforehand. If we play Houston, it will be in the playoffs, right? So we’ll see what happens."

— Jason Mastrodonato (@JMastrodonato) July 31, 2019

On a conference call, Jays GM Ross Atkins says the team's moves have 'turned 14 years of control into 42 years of control'.

gonna be tough for the marketing folks to work that into a slogan.

— Scott Stinson (@scott_stinson) July 31, 2019

like to see the Twins (or the Rays) win the pennant tbqh

Yeah I didn’t see much of a future for Stroman and Biagini and Sogard and Hudson with the Jays, trading Sanchez is a little more confusing.

Anyway, there ain't much to dislike from a Jays perspective imo.

they could've/should've gotten way more for stroman alone

I don't know about 'way' more, but yeah more perhaps.

b4 you cede the next two WS titles to Houston, I remind you of Maddux-Glavine-Smoltz

Yeah but did they have José Altuve?