Mother fuck is Stroman ever sick. If the Jays actually show patience and not deall the farm, their rotation is going to be sick.
,
Stroman
Sanchez
Norris
Hoffman
Castro/Nolin/Foley

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unless it isn't. I'm not sure if I want Lester for a 2 month rental..hmph

Lester traded to Oakland for..

Cespedes?!?

lol

what

<font color=goldenrod>A's get: Jon Lester, Jonny Gomes
Red Sox get: Yoenis Cespedes

WOW. Gonna be funny when Lester signs back with Boston in the off-season.</font>

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAA?

Well, Cespedes got 1 more year before he hits free agency. However, since Boston probably won't be doing any big money contracts for a while, I'll assume he walk. I'll laugh if Beane somehow retains Lester. Oakland got a quality pitching staff going right now.

There was no way Oakland was going to keep Cespedes either when he becomes a FA.

That being said, pitching wasn't exactly holding them back. Wild trade.

Great trade for Red Sox. No way Lester stays in OAK. This allows Boston to resign Lester in the offseason.

A's acquire Sam Fuld from the Twins for Tommy Milone.

Beane ain't playing around today.

Boston shipping out Lackey to the Cardinals for Allen Craig and Joe Kelly

<font color=goldenrod>Sounds like the Mets are going to be sitting on their hands at the deadline. Again.

Yeah they're 4 games under .500 but they're still in striking distance with the Wild Card and even the division. They're 15-10 through July with amazing pitching and a lineup playing far better than it was in April and May.

Just annoying. I don't expect a superstar or anything but a guy like Alex Rios, Asdrubal Cabrera, or Josh Willingham can at least give them a little something extra without costing the Mets a major prospect. I think it ultimately comes down to the owners being broke even though they don't want to admit it publicly.</font>

Sounds like Rios may go to the Giants

<font color=goldenrod>An insider on MLB Network just guaranteed that Price is traded by 4 PM. Mariners or Pirates.

If they can get a haul then I guess it's worth it, still kinda shocking to see them give up on the season while they've been red hot.</font>

I'm kind of annoyed the o's are the only team in first place that hasn't made a move yet, but they're also in the division with two of the big teams essentially throwing in the towel for this season. plus the blue jays haven't made a big move and the Yankees big moves so far are negligible anyway..

Good bye Geraldo Parra :-(

Asdrubal Cabrera to the Nats

Andrew Miller to the Orioles

Tigers get Price!!!!!!!!!!!!!

<font color=goldenrod>Whoa</font>

Yankees gets Stephen Drew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wait.....what?

The Rays didn't nearly get what I thought they would for Price. Nick Franklin, Drew Smyly and an 18 year old SS prospect..

Not sure how I feel about the Lester trade. Not confident the Red Sox will get him back in the offseason but the trade does help their hitting woes.

Shame Lackey got traded since I liked how much he improved the past two seasons. At times this season, he was better than Lester.


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What did the Ms get from the Price trade since they sent someone to the Rays to help the Tigers?

he's playing 2b cause they got rid of Brian Roberts

Austin Jackson for Nick Franklin

Ms got Austin Jackson. Rays got Nick Franklin, Drew Smyly and the Tigers 30th best prospect apparently. Pretty weak trade for the Rays. Seemed like they could have gotten a ton more.

Tigers rotation is absurd -

Scherzer-Price-Sanchez-Verlander-Porcello

Yankees also traded for Martin Prado.

The Rays made one of the worst trades in the history of baseball. Jesus. They'd have gotten more just letting Price walk and getting the draft compensation.

lol..the Yankees owed Brian Roberts a $250k bonus if he got 350 plate appearances. they pulled him early a couple games ago and sat him out the last 2 leaving him at 348 plate appearances before they dfa'ed him.

lol Booker t threw put the Astros first pitch yesterday and their mascot did a spinaroonie

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Hate baseball

gonna jump on dat Tigers bandwagon

Stephen Drew?

Is he supposed to be Derek Jeter Jr. or something? Oh, wait. He's playing 2B.

Ichiro is on his way out with Prado in the mix now.

Prado is under team control until 2016. I'm cool with this. It ain't a rental.

They also gave up next to nothing to get him after reports stated the DBacks weren't looking to move him.

The Rays got fucking hosed. Good christ. For all the good they did in raping the Royals for Myers, they did the exact opposite in dealing Price. Smyly is solid, and Franklin might be a decent starter, but you just gave away a top 10 starter in baseball and you didn't get back not one potential stud. Sheesh.

Ya giving up Smyly and Ajax for Price, I'll take that trade 100 times out of 100.

Oh yeah, forgot about Jackson going to the M's. Good pickup for them. Better than what they have. They also took Denorfia from the Padres. When going well, Deno is killer agains lefties.

Haha this is awesome. Right after the Tigers made the Price trade, Dave Dombrowski (Tigers GM) texted BIlly Beane (A's GM), "You have one minute to acquire Chris Sale"

Love reading stuff like that

something to be said about a 0-0 game in the 12th..ugh

Lol Nolan Reimold with two jacks. Jays keep winning with surprise performances.

So glad they kept Sanchez and Stroman. If you haven't seen 5"8 Marcus Stroman pitch, you're in for a treat. He's been unhittable.

I was in Houston earlier this week and had the chance to catch an Astros game. Had tickets right on 1B line, 3 rows up. Seeing Altuve in person was hilarious. He's so tiny.

Braves get Bonifacio, Russell, and some loot from the Cubs for a minor league catcher prospect. Good trade for the Braves, I guess.

Have to wait til after next season for them to do anything decent I guess as we are still stuck paying Dan Uggla 13 million/year to sit at home unemployed. That bastard.

no moves by Toronto, cannot say I am surprised...fairweather fans are bitching about the lack of movement, but they are not ready yet....

I feel like I should type words about the A's and Dbacks trades but I dunno. whatever

Yeah, like do you want to deal Stroman and Sanchez for a rental who will more than likely not resign? It's ridiculous.

I'm all for just dumping Colby Rasmus at this point.

the orioles have played 7 straight 1 run games (5-2) which is getting annoying

Was it last year or two years ago when they had some ridiculous record in 1-run games

Brilliant pitching displays going on in Queens right now between the Mets and Giants. Zeros across the board for BOTH teams through six.

Jim Thome signed a 1-day contract with the Indians and calls it a career.

22 seasons, 612 homers, feared hitter, clean.

I think he'll get into the hall of fame without a problem. Only thing that'll hold him back is no world series titles.

Jim Thome was one of my favorite players. Bummed he never won a ring, but he should be a lock for the Hall regardless.

Him being in the roids era is going to be the bigger problem but won't in the end. 500-600 HRs usually guarantees a spot in the Hall and wasn't tainted by the roids debate during his career.

2012. They won today to the first time in team history 1-0 on a leadoff hr.

the offense is fucking putrid right now, hitting about .190 in July/August and yet by the power of their pitching they're 19-9 in that stretch and are back up 3.5 on Toronto with a huge series in Toronto coming up this week.

Busy news day.


Nats acquire Matt Thornton from the Yankees. Who/what New York is getting in exchange is unknown at this time.

The search for Bud Selig's successor has been narrowed down to 3. MLB chief operating officer Rob Manfred, MLB vice president of business Tim Bronson and Red Sox chairman Tom Werner. Voting goes down at next week's owners quarterly meetings.

Finally, 1-year to the day, feds do another round of arrests in the Biogenesis scandal. With Tony Bosch surrendering to the feds today. Word going around is that there are more players involved than originally thought and there could be more suspensions coming down in the near future.

Irrationally excited to see Price's Tigers debut tonight

Randomly saw him in Peoria years ago. Just the nicest guy you could imagine.

Javy Baez time. I rely on prospects for excitement because my team sucks.

Even though we were pbping it, feel the need to discuss how cool it was to see Joba in a Tigers uniform with a vicious-ass beard bean the crap outta Jeter last night

Padres hire Rangers asst. GM A.J Preller as their new GM.

Kim Ng gets spurned again.

Her lack of any real experience in identifying, scouting, drafting and developing amateur talent works against her.

At least 5 new players were discovered by the Feds although names weren't released yet. The biggest surprise was those players weren't tied to the clinic but to A-Rod and his cousin.

Roberto Hernandez put on waivers by the Phillies, claimed by the Dodgers. PHI to get to PTBNL or cash money. Of course he's gone now that he's won his last three decisions.

Also Cole Hamels claimed by "mystery team." Oooooohhhhh

Javier Baez is my daddy!

RP should be happy that mystery team that claimed Hamels was the cubs

Lester is looking really good through 5

Lester is going to dominate in the AL West

<font color=goldenrod>Mets finally DFA Chris Young.

Thank god. What a waste of $7.5 million.</font>

Caleb Joseph has homered in 5 straight games for the Orioles. Matt Wieters who?

Ooof. Red Sox and Angels went 19 innings last night. 6.5 hour game.

Travis Wood I'd pitching a no hitter today.

Tomorrow

RIZZO!

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Tigers/Jays game today was insane. We lost but it was a fantastic game. Feel for the jays, having to go through our murderers row of pitching, play that 19 inning ge, then fly to Seattle to face king Felix. Ouch.

Jays will win. You watch.

aside from being worried about Machado, great night for the O's 11-3, 7 up on the Yankees

Can't wait to watch BUCK FARMER toss the ball on Wednesday

party like its 1985 in Kansas City

Been watching baseball since I am off a bit. Jays aren't doing too poorly but that flub on first in the 9th sealed it against Seattle.

absolutely amazing 8th inning for the Os, down 2-1 Schoop hits another Homer vs the Yankees to tie it of Betances and then Adam Jones hits a 3 run homer to give em the lead.

<font color=goldenrod>Nationals beat the Mets at Citi Field for the 10th straight time. They are now 42-16 vs. the Mets since the 2011 All Star Break.

The latter is a fucking ridiculous stat. Probably historic.</font>

Jays had lost 17 straight in Yankee stadium until recently

Yankees gotta turn it around like right now. Possibility of Tanaka returning late is more and more unlikely if the Yankees fall out of the race.

Yankees are closer to last place (7 games) than they are first place (8 games)

I'm dying for the Red Sox and Rays to get just hot enough to put the Yankees in last place. O's winning the division PLUS the Yankees in last place? I do not know what I would do..

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If I was the Yankees I wouldn't rush Tanaka back. Between LAA and the DET/KC race, I don't think they even have a chance in the wildcard race, no point tempting the baseball gods with their investment.

Would you want to risk further injury to him, though, for a longshot at a wildcard game?

<font color=goldenrod>Man...as much as I would love for the Mets to have a bat the quality of Tulo or even CarGo in their lineup, it's becoming more and more apparent that neither guy is worth the 2-3 top prospects it would take to land them. They are made of glass.</font>

<font color=goldenrod>Actually with both of the Colorado guys off of the table, the Marlins trying to extend Stanton, and the Cubs (justifiably) asking for the moon for Castro or any of their top hitting prospects, I'm having my doubts that the Mets will be getting the big time bat they need this offseason.

They're pretty much gonna pin the 2015 season on hoping Wright bounces back from his poor season, d'Arnaud and Duda play like they have the past month and a half, and Murphy has another All Star season. That's a lot of ifs for a division that should still feature really good Nats and Braves teams and a Marlins team that is ready to be a serious playoff threat.</font> :-\

<font color=goldenrod>Rushing Tanaka back would be a comically bad decision by the Yankees.</font>

Stay classy, Nathan

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tbh the feeling is mostly mutual

Next MLB comish down to either Rob Manfred from the MLB or Tom Werner from the Red Sox after Tim Brosnan from the MLB dropped out of the race.

According to ESPN, Manfred is the heavy favorite with around 20 teams leaning towards voting for him.


EDIT: Final vote ended up happening very quickly
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That good or bad?

Thank god not Werner

....and the Braves continue to hit like they are JV.

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Knew they lost a bunch of times on his birthday but wasn't aware it's been an actual streak

they also lost a bunch of other games too

Jays haven't won since I've started watching them. :(

Rays got all the way back to .500 after being as far as 18 games down. 4th team to do it.

Way to go, Yankees. Ya made history for another team......again.

Sometimes I feel like all I have is the Starlin Castro hit streak.