Author: Tim Dierkes

MLB Trade Rumors employs a team of writers to bring you the latest hot stove news and analysis.  Let’s meet the team:

Tim Dierkes started MLB Trade Rumors as a hobby in 2005, and has since written over 12,000 posts as MLBTR grew into baseball’s most popular hot stove website as well as his full-time job.  MLBTR has received over 3.1 billion pageviews since its inception and is a favorite of baseball writers, executives, agents, players, and fans everywhere.  A graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Tim currently lives in the Chicago suburbs with his wife and four children.  Follow Tim on Twitter: @timdierkes.

Steve Adams is a full-time staff writer for MLB Trade Rumors. MLBTR’s longest-tenured writer, Steve grew up in the Twin Cities and currently resides in Minnesota. He is a graduate of St. Mary’s University of Minnesota, where he studied English Literature with a Writing Emphasis and Public Relations (when his fantasy baseball schedule permitted). Steve has been a baseball fan since he can remember, and is thankful to be (barely) old enough to have vivid memories of his beloved Twins’ most recent World Series title in 1991. Steve has been writing for MLBTR since May of 2008, and began providing fantasy analysis for MLB.com in May of 2011. He has also written about the Twins for SB Nation’s Twinkie Town and fears that his voice may never fully recover from 2009’s Game 163 tiebreaker against the Tigers. You can follow him on Twitter: @Adams_Steve.

Anthony Franco gave up his dream of being an MLB player when he went hitless all season his final year of youth baseball. A Buffalo, NY native, Anthony was a Cubs fan growing up but lost track of baseball for a few years once he stopped playing. He rediscovered his passion for the sport in college at the University at Buffalo, where he got his first opportunity to write about baseball for Fantrax, a fantasy sports site. A part-time writer at MLBTR since 2019, Anthony joined the full-time staff in June 2021. Anthony graduated from UB with a history degree in 2017 and graduated from Boston College Law School in 2020. You can find him on Twitter discussing baseball, complaining about the Las Vegas Raiders, and raving about the occasional 1950’s movie: @affranco10.

Darragh McDonald grew up in the Toronto area and got to watch the Blue Jays win the World Series when he was 9 and 10 years old, thus dooming him to a lifetime of baseball fandom. He started writing for MLBTR in March of 2020, which somehow got nudged out of the worldwide headlines that month. A graduate of the Ryerson University Film Studies program, Darragh has also occasionally worked in television and written bad screenplays.

Mark Polishuk has been part of the MLBTR crew since October 2009.  He has also written about baseball, soccer and hockey for such outlets as Field Level Media, ESPN.com, The Boston Herald, The Canadian Press, The11.ca, Plastic Pitch, The Sports Xchange, The New York Post, and the official websites of both Major League Baseball and Major League Soccer.  A native of London, Ontario, Mark holds a BA in English/Film Studies from the University Of Western Ontario.  His greatest on-field achievement was performing an unassisted triple play during a softball game in eighth grade gym class — “Just like Bill Wambsganss!” Mark yelled at the time, a reference lost on his classmates.

Leo Morgenstern grew up in Toronto but fell in love with baseball through Jimmy Rollins, Chase Utley, Ryan Howard, and the rest of the 2008 Phillies. Since graduating from the University of Toronto in 2020, he has written about baseball all over the internet, covering the Phillies for the dedicated team blogs at SB Nation and Sports Illustrated, the Blue Jays for DiamondCentric, and the game at large for FanGraphs, Baseball Prospectus, Just Baseball, Pitcher List, Lindy’s Sports, and, of course, MLB Trade Rumors. When he isn’t writing about, reading about, or actually watching baseball, he tries his best to be funny for The Beaverton, Canada’s least-trusted source of news. You can follow him on Bluesky @leomorgenstern.bsky.social.

Charlie Wright joined the MLBTR squad in September 2025. He grew up in Southern Maryland and has been a Nationals fan since their inception. Charlie still remembers skipping school in 4th grade to attend the Nats’ inaugural game in Philadelphia. A graduate of the University of Maryland with a degree in multiplatform journalism, Charlie began his writing career at his local newspaper, back when they still printed it. He’s also worked for RotoGrinders, Action Network, and Pitcher List, to name a few. You can follow Charlie on X (formerly known as Twitter): @Chuck_Wright5.

AJ Eustace grew up in Connecticut and started watching the Yankees regularly after witnessing Raul Ibañez’s clutch 2012 season. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 2022 with a double major in Statistics and Economics. While there, he wrote for the college’s Sports Business Society and correctly predicted that Justin Verlander would win the 2019 AL Cy Young over Gerrit Cole. He joined the MLBTR staff as a part-time writer in September 2025 and is currently getting his Master’s in Social Work at Ohio State. In his spare time, you can find him recording music, playing pickleball, and discovering obscure movies that star David Bowie.