This week in baseball blogs…
- statsswipe tries to imagine how Christian Yelich would be performing had the Marlins kept him.
- Complete Game Loss focuses on a few power hitters who struggle to get on base.
- The Dugout runs down this year’s top deadline rentals.
- East Village Times asks if the Padres should trade Kirby Yates.
- The Runner Sports notes the Astros’ trade for Yordan Alvarez could go down as one of their biggest steals ever.
- Mets Daddy rips general manager Brodie Van Wagenen.
- Call to the Pen breaks down potential trade possibilities for the Phillies.
- Notes from the Sally ranks the top 40 South Atlantic League players at the midway point.
- The First Out At Third examines Jesus Aguilar’s poor start.
- Chipalatta looks at prospective pitching trade targets for the Astros.
- Pinstriped Prospects talks with Yankees farmhand Tyler Wade.
- Chin Music Baseball (links: 1, 2) lists six players who have erased their hot starts and six who have erased their slow starts.
- Mets Critic wonders if Robinson Cano’s contract is among the worst in franchise history.
- Joker Mag pays tribute to Dustin Pedroia.
- A’s Farm names its 2019 Mid-Season Organizational All-Star Team.
- Baseball Rabbi (podcast) discusses some of the most prolific home run hitters ever and a few impressive rookies, among other topics.
- Rising Apple looks into whether Corey Oswalt has a future with the Mets.
- Rox Pile names five unique venues where the Rockies should play a game.
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Yes cano is the worst trade for the Mets ever. For you cute mets fans, you have the next 4 years to watch his contributions dwindle. There is no position for a slow 2B player and there will be no DH in the NL unless Fred can get Bid Seelig to change the rules—and we all know that this is not changing.
Lazy, slow and disinterested, he’s a bad investment all around.
Selig’s coming out of retirement?
Ha
Yates to Houston is my early prediction.
Plenty of buyers out there for Yates wonder what top 50 prospect he brings back. Would love to keep but we have a roster crunch so he has to be moved.
Plenty of options out there too. Will Smith, Tony Watson, Shane Greene, Ken Giles, Alex Colome and those the ones off the top of my head. There’s probably a few more good options.
Yates is the best performer of them all this year but those other options still look pretty good and will look even better if the Padres really do push for a top 50 guy.
Brodie is 2015 AJ Preller
Alex Colome or Ken Giles to philly , then they can get adam jones