2019 MLB Regular Season running thread

They believe they can compete next year and they have a guy still under team control. If they are out of this time next year they trade him and recoup the prospects they gave up. If they haven’t extended him.

It’s outside the box thinking, which is frowned upon buy the baseball establishment and their cronies in the media.

 

Season is already 100+ games in, pushing back to 8/15 does what? You get even less of a player, especially the "rental". You get him for what 40 games (25%) of the season? Sounds great on paper until you do the math. Sure you pay only the prorated salary but is that even enough time to get him acclimated to the team dynamics and the new life, both at the ballpark and at home? The earlier the better IMHO. Frankly its just another instance where I say "Do your job"; make your evaluations and trade accordingly. Its not that hard.

 

You have longer to decide whether you are in it or not. Teams are less likely to give up on a season and can wait it out.

It’s baseball, either you can play or you can’t. The team dynamics are nothing more than old cliches.

 

It would also be more about injuries -- if a guy gets hurt on August 3, for example, you can't make a move. I know some will say -- tough shit -- but the positives of it would far outweigh the negatives.

 

I remember the 1964 Yankees got Pedro Ramos on 9/1 or so in some kind of waiver deal. He had eight saves in 11 games and essentially won the pennant for them, but wasn't eligible for the WS.

 

TINMHITTMAL

 

There’s a way to circumvent the hard trade deadline. Each team DFAs a player, the players clear waivers and become free agents, and then “coincidentally“ sign with their respective destination teams. There’s a limit, of course: No way in hell Hunter Pence clears waivers, for instance.

 

Yasiel Puig goes to the Tribe

 

I think we all expected top trade targets Stroman and Bauer to go to the *checks notes* Mets and Reds. That's baseball Suzyn.

For the Mets, it could make teams vastly overpay for Wheeler/Syndergaard/Diaz.

 

Or maybe someone will blink and pay up for Matthew Boyd

 

And throws a little going away party on his way out of town, as only Yasiel Puig can.

Puig, still with Reds, ejected as part of big brawl

 

More Puig. He had a memorable day.