With an attitude like that, you can be sure your name is going down on my unwritten little list, mister.
How many major league players would even know who the hell Greg Swindell and Danny Graves are?
These guys should certainly know who Graves is, and this pretty short list has batted against Swindell. I’d completely forgotten who Swindell is, but remember Graves because he won me a fantasy league back in the early 00s, being an SP-eligible closer.
This has got to have been one of the most boring trade deadlines in memory. My Pirates made no moves to bolster the bench or RF. I think they could get some help from triple-A, but it seems they don’t or they would have done it by now. Crud.
Yanks should have Granderson back by Friday. So in a 2 week period they’ll have effectively added Soriano, Jeter and Granderson. Not bad at all.
It was a very thin trade market this year. What does everyone think of Peavy playing in Boston? It doesn’t seem like a great fit but still looks like it should help them.
I’m shocked that there was a market at all for Maxwell; he seems … fine, I guess, but eminently replaceable.
Munch:
Kyle Smith isn’t really a top prospect. Also, Mike Montgomery is already gone - to the Rays, as part of the Myers-Shields trade.
I agree, though, that we need a 2B more than we need a supplemental RF. However, I’m glad Dayton didn’t do anything monumentally stupid to get one. For now, the Royals are over .500 (after May 21 for the first time in 10 years!) with the 2B situation they have. As long as Hosmer and Moustakas keep elevating their game, and Gordon, Butler, Perez and the pitchers don’t nose-dive, the 2B situation can be tolerated.
Astros find a taker for Bud Norris, getting L J Hoes, an outfielder with good plate discipline but no power (and probably not the defensive skills to play center) and Josh Hader, an A-ball pitching prospect, which I guess makes him about a fifth of a major-league pitcher. Astros now have two guys over 30 on their roster - Erik Bedard and relief pitcher Travis Blackley.
Edit: from the Orioles.
Right - that was the joke. 
I guess we’ll see how well Tejada can play second, because he’s a far better option than Getz until Tejada gets hurt again.
D’oh, I thought you said Aldaberto or Bubba or Mike Montgomery. Didn’t realize you said “for” there.
Hey, the Reds get another stellar pitching effort and actually score more than one run and actually win a game! Yowza.
Just checked and yup, just as I thought, the Reds have the second best pitching staff in all of baseball, just behind the Pirates. I don’t think I’ve seen a team like the Reds lose so many games with such great pitching because their offense is so inept.
Here’s the list from ESPN: 2023 MLB Team Pitching Stats | ESPN
Well, hours later, I find out I was wrong. Hard to believe they could keep this blockbuster under wraps so long.
Might as well give it up now guys, the series is ours. MU-HAHAHAHAHAHA!
It’s like you’re describing a Reds team in a different season.
The Reds have the fourth highest-scoring offense in the National League. That’s not “inept.” And they’re in a playoff spot despite being in the toughest division in the league. What’s wrong with this team?
Listening to the trade deadline, one of the deals mentioned a draft pick. I kept thinking: You CAN’T trade picks. Nobody corrected it
Apparently you can now trade draft picks. (Or only certain draft picks?) Not sure when that happened.
The Royals, bless their spunky little hearts, keep on winning, and those blasted Tigers and Indians keep on winning to keep their leads on them. Sheesh…
They keep losing low scoring games because they themselves can’t score over and over again?
They are 13-11 for July. There are playoff expectations for this team, a team with talented offensive players that can’t hit for RISP. The pitching is living up to it’s end of the bargain. The hitting is not.
They’re fourth in a 15-team league in scoring runs. Their batting average with runners in scoring position is exactly the same as their batting average when there aren’t runners in scoring position.
I’ll take those problems anyway.