The latest episode of the MLB Trade Rumors Podcast is now live on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you get your podcasts! Make sure you subscribe as well! You can also use the player at this link to listen, if you don’t use Spotify or Apple for podcasts.
This week, host Darragh McDonald is joined by Tim Dierkes of MLB Trade Rumors to discuss…
- Griffin Canning’s injury dealing another blow to the Mets’ rotation (1:45)
- Which playoff-caliber starters could be available at the deadline? (6:10)
- What does Canning’s free agency look like with this injury? (12:55)
- The Pirates reportedly having almost no one off the table at the deadline (15:10)
Plus, we answer your questions, including…
- Could the Orioles be sellers at the deadline and then make a late-season run for a Wild Card berth? (28:35)
- Should the Royals make Vinnie Pasquantino available at the deadline? (31:20)
- Should the Cubs get Eugenio Suárez from the Diamondbacks? (35:30)
- Should the Mariners get Josh Naylor of the Diamondbacks or Alex Bregman of the Red Sox? (40:10)
- If the Reds are sellers, should they make TJ Friedl available? (44:20)
- The constant tough question of when a small-market team should sell a star player (47:05)
Check out our past episodes!
- The Braves Say They Won’t Sell, Jeimer Candelario DFA’d, And Injured D-Backs – listen here
- Reacting To The Devers Trade And Aaron Civale – listen here
- White Sox Ownership, Roman Anthony, And The Diamondbacks’ Rotation – listen here
The podcast intro and outro song “So Long” is provided courtesy of the band Showoff. Check out their Facebook page here!
Photo courtesy of Wendell Cruz, Imagn Images
You mean it’s smart to stockpile MLB ready arms just in case 15 of them are on the IL at the same time to minimize the impact injuries have on the big club?
Maybe when MLB wakes you up and realizes why there are so many injuries…
Never mind, they won’t.
Everyone knows why it happens. Issue is that fans pay to see it. So owners pay players to do it.
Pirate’s fans reading the headline for this article with zero excitement :(
It’s not trading the guys that gives no excitement, it’s that we already know the return is garbage.
Lugo is one of the many pitchers the Red Sox lowballed a couple years ago, he would be an excellent trade deadline acquisition for them. Which means it won’t happen.
BTW – Isn’t negative Exit Velo actually Entrance Velo?
Braves not selling?
It is July. Not June braves.
Amazing how that team absolutely $h*t the bed.
Like the mets started last season the same way. Hit rock bottom by June but then took off.
This did not happen with the braves tho this year. Are they really going to buy?
Translation: The Pirates are willing to trade Controllable young players but want a lopsided Return for such deal a la “Chris Archer trade- 2018”