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This week, host Darragh McDonald is joined by Steve Adams and Anthony Franco of MLB Trade Rumors to go over the various deadline dealings, including…
- The Padres acquiring Mason Miller, JP Sears, Ryan O’Hearn, Ramón Laureano, Nestor Cortes, Freddy Fermin and Will Wagner, while not trading Dylan Cease nor Robert Suarez (1:20)
- The Athletics sending out Miller and Sears, getting a pile of prospects, headlined by Leo De Vries (25:20)
- The Twins trading a bunch of rentals but also Jhoan Durán, Griffin Jax, Louis Varland and Carlos Correa (31:50)
- The Astros taking on Correa despite previously trying to avoid the competitive balance tax (50:05)
- The Phillies’ deadline (58:25)
- The Mariners acquiring Josh Naylor and Eugenio Suárez from the Diamondbacks (1:00:40)
- The Diamondbacks trading Merrill Kelly but not Zac Gallen (1:07:45)
- The Rangers’ deadline (1:16:00)
- The Mets acquiring various relievers, including Tyler Rogers from the Giants (1:19:05)
- The Yankees acquiring Camilo Doval, David Bednar and Jake Bird (1:25:45)
- The Pirates holding several trade candidates but they did trade Ke’Bryan Hayes to the Reds (1:35:15)
- The Blue Jays acquiring Shane Bieber and Varland (1:43:40)
- The Red Sox acquiring Dustin May from the Dodgers (1:54:20)
- The underwhelming deadlines of the Cubs and Tigers (1:59:40)
Check out our past episodes!
- Megapod Trade Deadline Preview – listen here
- David Robertson, Trade Chips For The O’s and A’s, And What The Rangers Could Do – listen here
- Rays’ Ownership, The Phillies Target Bullpen Help, And Bubble Teams – listen here
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The Orioles made more trades and acquired more players then any team but let’s not discuss it at all.
Yeah, I felt a bit bad about that but they also didn’t do anything surprising. They traded their short-term pieces for prospects, exactly as expected. We didn’t have too much to say about it.
The Braves did nothing and you didn’t talk about them! Why do you hate them so much?!
They got most of the Padre’s 24 draft class.
Elias said it would not be a fire sale, yet 2 players who have contributed significantly this year with team options for 2026 were traded.
Elias said its not gutting the team, but aside from the young core, everyone on an expiring deal and not hurt was traded for primarily A/AA prospects.
Elias said he wanted guys who could help immediately. Maybe 2 from the return group could be minor factors in 2026.
Dropping a reminder that none of the young core has signed an extension and the Orioles have zero dollars committed in 2028, very little in 2026 and 2027.
I would be hugely disappointed if I was an Orioles fan. They seem content not putting the very best product on the field. They seem committed to mismanaging their young talent.
This team was killed by injuries, particularly the pitching! They had no real choice at the deadline. I would be shocked and disappointed if Mike Elias doesn’t flip some of the 15, or was it 16, prospects acquired at the deadline along with prospects already in the organization, for a front line, controllable pitcher this winter. Let’s not forget he gave up two prospects to bring in Corbin Burnes two seasons ago and then made the largest AAV offer to keep him this past season.
This will be the off-season David Rubenstein spends $ to bring additional help. Saurez, Valdez, or King would look great in the rotation, but Elias must be on it early, not waiting til January or February to sign a valued rotation piece. Obviously, the bullpen needs to be completely revamped and the bench rebuilt!
The added a ton of prospects. I get it as a fan, but their lack of participation this yr and lack of trades to contend is not inviting for further discussion on an MLB (national) trades review
Orioles made some very good deals and are set to rebuild their rotation and bullpen.
They have loaded up the farm system with promising talent.
The position player talent is blocked at the major league level.
Orioles have pitching that will be healthy in 2026
AND a truckload of pitching prospects from the draft and trades.
Some will be pitching in Camden Yards in a year or two.
Others, can be part of deals to land young, cost controlled pitching from other ballclubs.
When the Orioles get the rotation and bullpen fixed to add to their wealth of position player talent, then watch out AL East.
Seatle got everything to be champion
They got what they needed most.
The 3 certainties of life: Death, Taxes and the Mariners collapsing in September….
And being 1 game out of the playoffs followed by a 54% comment and ownership complaining about a tv deal
They own their own network, what could they possibly have to complain about!!
Seattle?
The Phillies made one of if not the biggest move of the deadline and get a minute and a half. Typical.
mlbtr collusion against their Philly fan base. I could definitely see that!!! I heard it was openly discussed at the annual Board of Directors meeting.
You get it!
If Bieber returns to form then he could be a difference maker in the playoffs. In 1992 they traded Jeff Kent for David Cone who won pivotal game 2 in the WS. No Blue Jays fans regrets this trade.
It’s been so long … one pitching prospect is worth it.
Good thing they traded Kent he would’ve complained about breaking his arm because he couldn’t figure out how to wash a truck in Canada
Don’t get me wrong I would agree to an extent with your comments on my Reds, but these guys completely overlooked the Andujar trade. A right handed outfield bat who is one of the best in the game at hitting lefties. Reds have struggled vs LHP all year. The three guys we acquired almost single handed won us game 2 in the Cubs series last weekend. Just think it’s odd that the MLBTR guys seemingly just didn’t hear about the Andujar trade when they’re literally the people that informed me of it almost instantly.
Hear me out on this proposed Rule Change: Any runs given up by a positional player who is asked to pitch in a blowout situation SHOULD NOT be counted as earned runs, and they should not count towards a team’s run differential.
This year it seems it’s far too ubiquitous to see a game get to this dismal point, where the opposing team is winning by more than 10 runs so a position player is utilized to save the bullpen. The guy usually comes out throwing 40mph ephuss pitches and gets hammered. This is non-competitive junk baseball; and it shouldn’t count as real offense. Another remedy for this is just having the batter go up and ground out on the first pitch to get the inning over with. It’s ugly baseball and definitely shouldn’t count as anything legitimate.
Well in Boston, May didn’t make thru 4, with a high pitch count. So Breslows current trade record is not really looking very good with the Sale trade, the Devers trade, and the trade deadline trade for May. Got to think his luck has to change sometime.
Sounds like a perfect fit on the Mets. How did we miss out on this guy?
@ BadCo
Not sure if the Devers trade belongs in the loss column. The present day talent returned wasn’t much, and we don’t yet know how the prospects will turn out, but based on how Boston has played since Devers was shipped out, it’s addition through subtraction. They got rid of all the headaches and any remaining locker room drama and are now just focused on playing ball.
To me, that’s a win all on it’s own.
Al Avila did the same thing anytime the Tigers sniffed even the possibility of making the playoffs…..
DID NOT STICK WITH THE PLAN!
BIG MISS for S Harris. What he did do was surprisingly good but the major, major thing did NOT GET DONE.
Good podcast overall but had to laugh at your reaction to the Tigers deadline. Very much what most people felt about it but it is very clear Scott Harris does not view things as most of us do. Specifically, he does not buy into the window thing, with Skubal or in general. He wants to build a consistent winner by drafting and developing his own players. It isn’t risk averse, it is a philosophical bent. He sees being good year in and year out as more likely to net that WS trophy than pushing his chips in on any one year, especially given how much of a crapshoot the playoffs can be. Agree with him or not, it’s pretty clear that is how he operates. With that bent, he is going to value his prospects more highly than other teams.
I personally felt like there is a middle ground to be had here, but I also know the Tigers have enough holes that there was no way to patch them all via the trade deadline.