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Trade Rumors Front Office Subscriber Chat Transcript

By Steve Adams | June 9, 2025 at 2:02pm CDT

MLBTR's Steve Adams is hosting a chat today at 2pm CT, exclusively for Trade Rumors Front Office subscribers.

Steve Adams

  • Good afternoon! We'll get this going at 2pm, but feel free to submit questions ahead of time. Looking forward to it!
  • Hello! Sorry to start a couple minutes late. Let's get underway!

Marlins

  • Who on the team gets the All Star nod? Agustin Ramirez?

Steve Adams

  • I would imagine it's Kyle Stowers. They've both been good overall and cooled off recently but Stowers has been up all year. I guess you could say Ryan Weathers if he makes another six or seven really good starts between now and then, but Stowers feels likeliest to me right now

Beano

  • How low can W Adames numbers go this year? A career year repeat was out of the question, but a total bust is surprising - no?

Steve Adams

  • Yeah, it's a pretty big surprise. It's also worrying, because the main culprit I'd point to is bat speed. Adames is actually chasing less often and making more contact in the zone. His strikeout and walk rates are similar to last year. He's not suddenly hitting a ton of grounders -- though his GB% is up a slight bit, nothing major.

    He's tied for the eighth-biggest drop in bat speed, as measured by Statcast, among 175 qualified big leaguers. That's not great, obviously. He was at 73.6 mph in 2024 and is down to 71.8 mph in 2025.

    You never know precisely how healthy a player is. Maybe he's working through something that's hampering his shoulder or wrist strength. Maybe he made a tweak in his mechanics moving to a bigger park and it's having an adverse effect.

    It's impossible to say, but you're plenty justified to be concerned with the first two-plus months at this point.

Kegger

  • Do you see only rentals moving at deadline or bigger deals happening?

Steve Adams

  • There will always be some players with multiple years of team control moved. The Rays are always a team to watch here because of their constantly strong farm and their constant payroll crunches. Brandon Lowe, Yandy Diaz and Drew Rasmussen come to mind. Pete Fairbanks. The Rockies waited too long to trade Ryan McMahon, but they're so bad this year that I wonder if they'll finally listen on guys like him or Kyle Freeland
  • Marlins obviously will listen on Alcantara, but they'll want to avoid selling too low. Ryan Weathers and Anthony Bender will get looks. Jesus Sanchez, too.
  • Pirates will have David Bednar and Dennis Santana, both controlled through 2026. Bailey Falter is another one there. Nathaniel Lowe in Washington
  • Even win-now clubs looking to buy will be forced to part with some young major leaguers; that's the nature when there's a limited inventory of available players for buy-side teams to target and when teams are more reluctant than ever to trade true prospects.

Kevin in Ranger Texas

  • Idea of Texas trading Mahle or Corbin or Gray after he comes back, for a consistent hitter to help in the lineup, hopefully the guys we have now can turn it around but…. Adolis is no help, Jung has slowed, Seager has not helped out. Should we trade ? And stay in it.

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  1. The Ranger Fan

    2 months ago

    Could Texas trade Mahle or Corbin for a quality bat and a reliever

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    2 months ago

    What happened to Jotcast?

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