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Daniel R. Epstein@depstein1983.bsky.social · yesterday

I didn't Monkee around with this roundup of Mets reliever trades. @baseballprospectus.com Five terms you will find herein: -amorphous bullpen of anarchy -Ghost of Christmas Future -Mansa Musa-esque -chip stack of sadness -"...but it might work for us." www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

TA: Daydream Relievers and a Sad Bumming Queens | Baseball Prospectus

Our good time starts and ends, with a few trades to contend...ers.

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your buddy Craig who works at 7-11 and is high all the time@cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 2d ago

just an update here: today they reacquired Feduccia for literally Jack Suwinski, and got as a throw-in, a relief prospect who has struck out 74 batters against 10 walks in 53 innings. Might end up being nothing (most relief prospects are), but like...this is how it happens.

your buddy Craig who works at 7-11 and is high all the time@cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 4d ago

last year they traded Hunter Feduccia, a 28-year-old catcher with 122 PA across 3 seasons (at the time) and snagged a legit prospect (probably a reliever), a relief up-and-down guy, and another backup catcher. Serwinowski (the prospect) has been bad in Double-A but also has struck out 116 in 95 ip.

Patrick Dubuque@euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 2d ago

Wrote up the Taylor Ward trade, in which I apologized a little for my Luis Castillo analysis. The M's are always going to be weird about money, but they did go and use it, and use it well.

TA: The Seattle Mariners, Who Have Not Given Up, | Baseball Prospectus

Baltimore Orioles trade OF Taylor Ward to the Seattle Mariners for RHP Alex Hoppe, RHP Harrison Kreiling, and RHP Brock Moore.  The Mariners aren’t selling. Or at least, they aren’t just selling. After taking a series from Toronto on July 5, the team went on a 6-14 run that even the All-Star break couldn’t reset, falling to a season-worst five games under .500. The team then dealt Luis Castillo, which was a sale in technicality but not in spirit: the All-Star no longer fit in either Seattle’s rotation or the reputation he’d built with the club. That the move provided the front office with a surprising amount of financial flexibility was also, in itself, not a necessary indicator of anything. The M’s have embezzled that flexibility in the past, when trading Robinson Canó for Jarred Kelenic, and again when trading Marco Gonzales and Jarred Kelenic for Jackson Kowar. Financial flexibility is often where the modern “fan as armchair GM” thing tends to break down. There’s an appeal to having to manage, mentally, a baseball team under the constraints of a budget; limits beget creativity. But in the game of pretending to run a baseball team, there’s no intrinsic value in just pocketing money, and in real life, there’s a lot of it. That’s why the typical salary dump trade, like the Tyler Mahle deal, are the most demoralizing in sports. In a capped league, such moves theoretically create the potential for new moves, but generally they’re being done by the same people who made the bad acquisitions that needed to be dumped. In baseball, they’re nothing more than a non-apology, labeled as a “smart move.”

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your buddy Craig who works at 7-11 and is high all the time@cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 2d ago

I wrote up the Arraez acquisition and pondered through the possible defensive ramifications. Then I just updated it with @mattgelb.bsky.social's reporting on what Mattingly says he's gonna do.

Phillies Acquire Luis Arraez, Perform Some Inventory Management | Baseball Prospectus

San Francisco Giants trade 2B Luis Arraez and RHP Caleb Kilian to Philadelphia Phillies for RHP Ramon Marquez and RHP Marty Gair. When I wrote a couple weeks ago that this was shaping up to be a weird...

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your buddy Craig who works at 7-11 and is high all the time@cdgoldstein.baseballprospectus.com · 2d ago

"The fact that he was handed off to Atlanta for a Player We’d Better Name Now In Case We Forget..."

Patrick Dubuque@euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 2d ago

Good morning. Last night I wrote about the big trade of the weekend. That's right, Tyler Mahle has been assigned exactly 1.0 Kremer Units, which makes him a good pickup for the Braves. As for the Giants... I was less kind to the Giants.

Patrick Dubuque@euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 2d ago

Good morning. Last night I wrote about the big trade of the weekend. That's right, Tyler Mahle has been assigned exactly 1.0 Kremer Units, which makes him a good pickup for the Braves. As for the Giants... I was less kind to the Giants.

TA: In Atlanta, Quantity is Job One | Baseball Prospectus

San Francisco Giants trade RHP Tyler Mahle to the Atlanta Braves for RHP Anthony Molina. Although heaven knows who Tyler Mahle even is, anymore. Then man has worn so many caps, thrown with so many arm...

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