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Alexander Reyes - STL
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Aaron Judge - NYY
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Jose De Leon - LAD
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Dan Vogelbach - SEA
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Hunter Renfroe - SD
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Yoan Moncada - BOS
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J.P. Crawford - PHI
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With the recent uptick in minor league call-ups that included Gary Sanchez, Andrew Benintendi, David Dahl and Orlando Arcia we thought we would give you a quick list of who else could be on their way to the show soon.
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Today we learned that the 2016 MLB season will be the last season Mark Teixeira. Teixeira held a press conference this afternoon to announce his retirement. Now we begin asking the question, and we are not alone in starting to ask, is he hall of fame worthy?
There was a time when Teixeira was one of the best, if not the best, first basemen in the game. In 2009, his best season of his career, he had a slash line of .292/.383/.565 with 39 home runs, 103 runs, and 122 RBIs. Over his 14 year career Teixeira has 1,836 hits, 1,281 RBIs, and 404 home runs with a career .269 batting average.
None of Mark Teixeiraâs statistics are eye popping or numbers that make you say he is an automatic for the hall of fame. If we compare the average statistics for hitters who are already in the hall of fame we can get a better picture of where Teixeira falls. Hall of famers average batting average is .302, he falls well short of that. Average number of hits 2,402 he will fall around 500 hits short of that. Average number of home runs is 216, Teixeira is well over that. In fact he would have the 28th most home runs in the hall if he doesnât hit another one this season. And finally the average number of RBIs and runs is 1,219 and 1,326 respectively, which Teixeira falls somewhat in line with considering he has 1,281 RBIs and 1,085 runs to date.
If you just became a baseball fan in the past five years you probably would not say that Teixeira is hall of fame worthy, but for those of us who saw him at his prime and can look at his whole body of work I think would agree that though he wonât get in on the first ballot he will be a future member of the baseball hall of fame.
On Monday we had one of the most exciting days of the year, the MLB trade deadline. Now we call it the trade deadline, but what it should really be referred to is the non-waiver trade deadline. Non-waiver trade deadline tells us what it truly is. Just because this deadline has passed it does not mean that trades can't be made. So, how does a trade get made in August? It's much harder to make a trade after the non-waiver deadline, but it can and does still happen. First, step to make a trade is to place a them on revocable waivers. Revocable waivers means that at any time the team can pull them back and not lose that player. Once a player is on waivers teams can put a claim in on him. If multiple teams place a claim then priority is first given to the lowest ranked team in the same league as the one the player is in and then the lowest ranked team in the other league. After a player has been claimed there a few options. The team that placed that player on waivers can pull him back, they can negotiate with the highest priority team that filed a claim to work out a trade or they can just let the player go. If a deal is going to be worked out for a trade the two teams have two days to make it happen. If a player goes unclaimed for two days then the team is free to trade him to whoever they wish. Being claimed off waivers is not the hardest part of getting a deal done in August. You have to remember that the only players that can be traded are players who have cleared waivers or players not on the 40-man roster. So, for a deal to get done the team giving up the major league talent has to get back a prospect that they feel will be worth making a trade for that is not on a 40-man roster. Even though it is no where near as fun as the non-waiver trade deadline, trading in August can still be exciting. Best part about it is that it is very secretive when it comes to who has been put on waivers so we as the public may never know how close our favorite over priced star came to being traded in August.
Don't refresh your screen or rub your eyes you read it correctly. In the battle known as the trade deadline in MLB the winner wasn't the Yankees, Dodgers or Cubs, it was prospects. Your probably saying, what how can that be? Let me explain.
Yes, there were a lot of great moves that were made on Monday, Jonathan Lucroy to the Rangers or Josh Reddick to the Dodgers, but those players already were big league talent and their new teams may have become better. In the end though most teams in the running for the playoffs are now better so how can we say one team won the deadline over another? That's why it is clear that this years trade deadline was won by non-major league players we like to call prospects.
More interesting than who was traded where on Monday was who got the call to the majors on Tuesday. Three high end talents were told to pack their bags and join their major league affiliates. Those prospect coming to the show are Andrew Benintendi, Orlando Arcia and Gary Sanchez. All three of these top talents were told this week that the time had come to show what they can do on the big stage. In the next couple of days we will definitely pay attention to the guys who were traded and what they do with their new clubs, but even more people will be watching the future of our sport to see who will be the next superstar.
Yesterday's MLB trade deadline was everything we could want it to be and more. There were 18 trades made and a lot of action right up to the actual deadline. Deals were getting done, undone and reworked. It was very exciting for a baseball nerd like myself. Now, if you weren't paying attention you may have missed some things, so I am here to give you a brief recap of the more notable trades that went down.
One of the early trades that came up was Jay Bruce to the Mets. However, the trade was put on hold after Cincinnati had an issue with the medical records of one of the minor league players that New York was sending back for Bruce. Luckily the deal was reworked and Bruce went to the Mets for Dilson Herrera and Max Wotell.
In what seems to be a pure salary dump, the Pirates traded Francisco Liriano, Harold Ramirez and Reese McGuire to the Blue Jays for Drew Hutchinson. It was said by a few analysts that this one of the most lopsided of the trades made and it is believed that the Pirates had to send the two minor leaguers to Toronto just to get them to take on the salars of Liriano.
Everything is bigger in Texas and the trades the Rangers made showed that. Texas acquired one of the biggest trade pieces on the market in the form of Jonathan Lucroy from the Brewers. Lucroy just a day earlier had vetoed a trade to the Indians, but the Rangers were not on his no-trade list so this time the deal couldn't be vetoed. In exchange for Lucroy Texas send back Lewis Brinson, Luis Ortiz and a player to be named later. Not only did Texas solve their catching issue in this trade they also acquired Jeremy Jeffress to solidify their pen.
After Carlos Beltran was traded to the Rangers (yes, they called Beltran as well) and Jay Bruce went to the Mets the other big outfield prize to be had was Josh Reddick. The Dodgers wasted no time in snatching up Reddick, but since they were already on the phone with Oakland they went ahead and got Rich Hill as well. In return the A's received Frankie Montas, Grant Holmes and Jhanel Cotton. Went is more notable about the Dodgers is probably what they didn't do yesterday and that was trade Yasiel Puig. This lead to reports of Puig storming out of Dodger Stadium after being told he would be traded or sent to triple-A, later we found out those reports were not true. What was true is that Puig was told he would be traded or demoted and since he wasn't traded he is likely on his way down to the minors.
If you want to read about the rest of the trades that happened yesterday you can check out our Twitter feed and make sure to follow us, @BBBaseball_Talk.
Click on the link below to watch live coverage from MLB Network on today's trade deadline. http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/7417714/v996877583
We have revised our list of possible trade candidates and added what teams are in the mix to get that player.
Overnight a trade that would have sent Jonathan Lucroy to the Indians and made them a very strong contender for the World Series was vetoed. Not by a general manager, team owner or even a manager. It was vetoes by the main player in the deal, Lucroy himself.
Jonathan Lucroy is a veteran player who has built in to his contract a no-trade clause which allowed him to veto the trade. That clause precludes the Brewers from trading Lucroy to eight teams, Indians were one of those teams, without his consent. When the deal was originally announced it seemed that it was a done deal and that all he wanted was some extra cash to approve the trade. Since then it has come out that he wanted to be assured he would be their starting catcher next year, or at least that is what is being reported. Who knows if that is the reason he vetoes the trade or not that is not what this is about. What it is really about is the fact that in MLB contracts players are given the rights to control their future destiny by blocking trades. In an age where NFL players have no control over their futures and very little guaranteed money compared to their baseball counterparts it has to be said that baseball players have a huge leg up over football players.
How were MLB players able to get this and NFL players not able to, by hard nose negotiating. Baseball players were able to get their way on this issue and it will never go away. NFL players have to with they had that same power, but unfortunately I doubt they will ever have these rights.
Chris Archer - Likely
Matt Moore - Not Likely
Jake Odorizzi - Not Likely
Chris Sale - Not Likely
James Shields - Likely
Jose Quintana- Not Likely
Jay Bruce - Likely
Matt Kemp - Not Likely (TRADED)
Wil Myers - Not Likely
Steve Pearce - Likely
Andrew Cashner - Likely (TRADED)
Hector Santiago - Likely
Wade Davis - Not Likely (INJURED)
Ivan Nova - Not Likely
Derek Norris - Not Likely
Jeremy Hellickson - Likely
Julio Teheran - Not Likely
Eduardo Nunez - Likely (TRADED)
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