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This week, host Darragh McDonald is joined by Anthony Franco of MLB Trade Rumors to discuss…
- The Rangers trading Marcus Semien to the Mets for Brandon Nimmo and cash (1:25)
- The Orioles trading Grayson Rodriguez to the Angels for Taylor Ward (20:05)
- The Mariners re-signing Josh Naylor to a five-year deal (31:20)
- The Braves acquiring Mauricio Dubón from the Astros for Nick Allen (40:50)
- Four different guys accepting a qualifying offer (52:40)
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- Offseason Preview Megapod: Top 50 Free Agents – listen here
- Surprising Option Decisions, Qualifying Offers, And Paul DePodesta – listen here
- Offseason Preview Megapod: Top Trade Candidates – listen here
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Red Sox acquire:
– Nick Castellanos RF (1/$20M)
– Rafael Marchan C
– Griff McGarry RHP (#20)
Phillies acquire:
– Jordan Hicks RHP (2/$25M)
– Brandon Clarke LHP (#6)
White Sox acquire:
– Taijuan Walker RHP (1/$18M)
– Johan Rojas CF
– Caleb Ricketts C (#22)
– Keaton Anthony 1B (#15)
– Eiberson Castellano RHP (#19)
Phillies acquire:
– Luis Robert RF (1/$20M)
– Kyle Teel C
TWO trades I’d love my fav team to make. They would even shave a few bucks off the ‘26 ledger.
Red sox already traded Clarke, also why would the White Sox do that deal? seems awful for them
You wanted a lot of praise for this dumbness didn’t you
Wow, it’s obvious who your favorite team is since it’s a terrible deal for the other teams lol.
I’m a Phillies fan. Sign me up for this.
Really creative. I like it
Presenting it from the top as if it was a recent deal? That’s as pathetic as your proposal itself.
I’m hoping that the Braves trade is not the highlight of the offseason for them.
Unfortunately I have a bad feeling it is. AA strikes early and often if anything somewhat meaningful happens…2 big name above average SPs already off the list. My fear is we sign Brad Keller to try and stretch him out as a starter will be our ‘big move’. 3rd off-season in a row he may attempt to go that route smh.
If the Yankees are going to be MLBTR community owned, may I humbly suggest a 14 year 900 million dollar extension for Anthony Volpe?
You guys said it but I think sold it short. Orioles and Angels have both seen the scans and the medical file and we have not. There is really no reason to speculate on baseball aspects of this trade. It is only a reflection of medical judgement.
At 1 yr $13mm for a 2-2.5 WAR corner OF, Ward is pretty close to market. Comparable value Profar got 3 / $14.5, so really there is very minor excess value.
Elias is a super rational type who shows he cares about value over roster balance. He gives a guy away for very little, a recent top prospect at a position of critical need for 25 teams. Ward isnt special for them, a whole bunch of those 25 would give up FAIR value for GR.
We have to conclude that medically, this is what he is worth.
@saj You may ‘have to conclude that,’ but no one else is obliged to do so.
The idea that because GM or POBO makes a trade it’s therefore a competent trade, is silly—particularly when it’s someone like Elias making the deal.
There are only a few GMs you could even begin to argue are, by definition, incapable of making a weak or inept trade, and Elias isn’t close to one of them.
So you say
a value obsessed gm sent off an asset
That is desired by many teams (hi upside SP)
For a very low relative return
without shopping him / trying for more.
Possible, but unlikely.
far more likely that we just lack the info.
As SAJ said, both teams have access to the medicals, and if this was just a salary dump on the Angels’ part and the Orioles were willing to take on Ward’s contract, why not trade some unranked single-A player? It was not like Greyson was taking up a large chunk of the payroll, $750000, I believe. I remember a trade in which one team hid the players’ medicals. I think that the team had to compensate the team that received the damaged player. Can anyone help me out on this? Oh, and if I were Perry, I’d make this trade every day.
1 for1.
@saj You may ‘have to conclude that,’ but no one else is obliged to do so.
The idea that because a GM or POBO makes a trade it’s therefore a competent trade, is silly—it’s as bad as any appeal to authority where ‘x is necessarily smart and wise because x is an expert in his field, therefore anything x does in his field is smart and wise.’
There are only a few GMs you could even begin to argue are, by definition, incapable of making a weak or inept trade, and Elias isn’t close to one of them.