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The Opener: Trade Candidates, Schmidt, Montgomery

By Nick Deeds | July 4, 2025 at 8:24am CDT

Happy Independence Day to those who celebrate! Here are three things for MLBTR readers to keep an eye on headed into Fourth of July weekend:

1. MLBTR’s Top 40 Trade Candidates:

We’re less than a month away from the 2025 Trade Deadline, and the rumor mill has begun to heat up. That means it’s time for another addition of MLBTR’s Top Trade Candidates list. Last year, we covered the Top 50 Trade Candidates for the 2024 deadline. Nine of the top eleven names on our list wound up traded that summer, and a tenth (southpaw Garrett Crochet) was dealt over the winter. This year, we’ll be looking in-depth at this summer’s 40 biggest trade candidates, though with so many teams on the bubble of playoff relevance more than 100 plausible trade candidates are mentioned in some capacity. Our list will be published this afternoon, so be sure to check back later today!

2. Schmidt headed to the IL?

The Yankees suffered a tough loss to the Blue Jays yesterday that knocked them out of the AL East lead and things took a turn for the worse after it was revealed that right-hander Clarke Schmidt’s early exit from the game was due to an issue in his forearm. Schmidt is slated to undergo an MRI to determine the severity of the problem, but Joel Sherman of the New York Post reports this morning that both Scott Effross and Jayvien Sandridge are expected to be recalled by the Yankees today. The addition of Effross to the roster is hardly noteworthy given that the Yankees already optioned Clayton Beeter to the minors to open a spot in the bullpen, but Sandridge can only be recalled if he’s replacing an injured player. That would certainly seem to suggests that Schmidt, who has 3.32 ERA in 14 starts this year, is ticketed for the shelf. We’ll surely know more about his status later today, as well as the Yankees’ rotation plans without him in the fold.

3. Montgomery to debut:

It’s been a brutal few years for White Sox fans, as their once-vaunted core of the early 2020s fizzled out and was dismantled. That’s left the fans on the south side with little reason for optimism in recent years, but this season’s club has boasted encouraging performances from young players like Shane Smith and Kyle Teel. Another exciting youngster is set to debut this weekend, as Chicago is reportedly poised to promote longtime top prospect Colson Montgomery to the majors. The 23-year-old is hitting just .218/.298/.435 across 55 games at the Triple-A level this year, but was a consensus top-15 prospect in the sport as recently as last season and heated up considerably this past month. With Montgomery doing his best work of the season, the White Sox clearly feel that now is the time to get him a taste of the big leagues. His first assignment will come against the Rockies in Colorado this weekend, for whom Antonio Senzatela (6.69 ERA) will be on the mound tonight.

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24 Comments

  1. Canuckleball

    5 hours ago

    “The Yankees suffered a tough loss to the Blue Jays yesterday that knocked them out of the AL East”

    Jeepers, I knew the sweep by the Jays was going to hit them hard, but it knocked them clean out of the division?!

    Are they going to join the Mets over in the NL East? That could be fun. A divisional rivalry within a city

    • Yankee Clipper

      3 hours ago

      With the way both teams are playing, it would be like watching the Bad News Bears play themselves…..

  2. DonOsbourne

    5 hours ago

    Clarke Schmidt’s career win-loss record is strangely symmetrical Bad news for the Yankees though..

    • Bart Harley Jarvis

      4 hours ago

      Mr..500? His mantra might be ‘you win some, you lose some’.

      • DonOsbourne

        4 hours ago

        But never one more than the other.

  3. bmann300

    5 hours ago

    Using the word “fizzle” describing the 2020 White Sox is just too kind!!!

    • thickiedon

      5 hours ago

      I’d go with deflated

  4. Louholtz22

    5 hours ago

    Freddy Peralta for Isaac Paredes. May the hottest team between the two win the World Series

  5. Fever Pitch Guy

    5 hours ago

    Morning baseball in the nation’s capital, how about that!

    • Perksy

      5 hours ago

      Sort of like Patriots day in your neck of the woods

      • whyhayzee

        4 hours ago

        Is there a marathon today?

    • ChuckyNJ

      4 hours ago

      That 11 AM ballgame in D.C. is to get it out of the way before the city is flooded with civilians and military for 4th of July fireworks.

      • whyhayzee

        10 mins ago

        Nice baseball game in DC today.

  6. JoeBrady

    5 hours ago

    heated up considerably this past month.
    ============================
    Not really. He’s hit some HRs, but his K/W since 6/4 is 25/6 in 71 ABs.. That’s more than 200/600 ABs.

    That’s unlikely to play in the pros.

    • whyhayzee

      4 hours ago

      Sounds like McMahon, the latest Yankees binky.

  7. Atlanta Jack

    5 hours ago

    We should also bring up Elko and just let the young guys play.

    • bmann300

      4 hours ago

      You mean you haven’t seen enough of Roda at first! Another White Sox joke of an add on player-same goes for Rojas and the list goes on and on.

      • Atlanta Jack

        3 hours ago

        300, that makes no sense at all. Your the joke.

  8. ChuckyNJ

    4 hours ago

    There’s an old saying that the team in first place on the 4th of July is usually the team that goes on to win the pennant. With that in mind, your teams in the postseason places on this morning are …
    American League: Tigers, Astros, Blue Jays (all division leaders), Yankees, Rays, Mariners.
    National League: Dodgers, Cubs, Phillies (all division leaders), Mets, Brewers, Cardinals.

    • Longtimecoming

      2 hours ago

      Subtract Cardinals and and Padres.

  9. whyhayzee

    4 hours ago

    Schmidthead or Messerschmidt?

    I can’t decide on his nickname.

    • AHH-Rox

      1 hour ago

      Andy Messersmith was a very good pitcher back in the day. Lifetime ERA below 3.00. Thanks for making me think of him for the first time in years.

      • whyhayzee

        10 mins ago

        I feel like he was an early free agent.

  10. Camikey

    2 hours ago

    “There’s a Messerschmidt in the kitchen, clean it up for me, will ya?”

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