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The 2016 trade that sent Jonathan Lucroy from the Milwaukee Brewers to the Texas Rangers eventually helped Milwaukee add two key pieces of the team’s current nucleus. In hindsight, the Milwaukee Brewers sold high on Jonathan Lucroy. Lucroy has been Read More
A poor month of August may have sunk the Seattle Mariners’ playoff chances. The struggles of the team’s pitching staff certainly didn’t help. Hindsight is obviously 20-20, but the team’s trade deadline activity (or lack there of) may have hurt Read More
I love baseball. It’s cliché and it’s corny and it’s overused as a phrase, but it’s absolutely true. I got irreversibly hooked on the sport as a kid, falling in love with every aspect of the game, from the strategy, Read More
Dave Dombrowski has enjoyed a largely successful stint with the Boston Red Sox, making plenty of successful trades. There’s one deal, though, that he’ll probably want back. Boston Red Sox president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski has a history of Read More
Edwin Jackson has played for 13 teams and has been traded six times in his career. These are the eight best players he’s been traded for, including one future Hall of Famer. Edwin Jackson has had an equally lengthy and Read More
Seattle Mariners third baseman Kyle Seager has had a down season in 2018, but could still hold trade value. Should the M’s consider trading him this offseason? If you’ve lived under a rock for the past few years, you probably failed Read More
August trades don’t come with the same headlines and excitement as trades that are completed in July or earlier. There are some definite exceptions (the Justin Verlander deal comes to mind), but for the most part, trade activity in August Read More
The Washington Nationals have been busy Tuesday. Just this morning, the team flipped two key contributors in 2018, second baseman Daniel Murphy (.783 OPS, .142 ISO in 205 PA) and infielder/outfielder Matt Adams (1.0 fWAR, .358 wOBA, 123 wRC+ in Read More
The Detroit Tigers aren’t what they used to be. For a multitude of reasons, the Tigers have gone from World Series contender in the early part of the decade to a rebuilding outfit at present. Plenty of talent has departed Read More
You get a trade, and you get a trade and you get a trade! That’s how things have been so far in August among MLB teams. Of course, teams don’t get trades, they make them rather, but there has been Read More