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Weird how there were over a dozen trades, yesterday and hardly any, today.

Ugly swing at that one Kiddo!

We need the RBI man to do just that!

Jansen put to the test.

The bats have awakened.

Valdez .325 OPS vs LHPs.

vs LHPs .835 Romy .790 Westbrook For what that's worth.

I'm thinking bigger and more legit. Package Campbell with Fitts and 2 from Yorke, Lugo, Valdez or Meidroth for a proven SP'er with 3+ years of control.

Teams are looking to trade for him. Apparently, the Yanks are one.

OPS since May 31st: (140+ PAs) 8. O'Neill 1.019 9. Devers 1.013 13. Duran .982 63. Rafaela .813 71. Smith .798 83. Wong .776 119. DHam .698 Under 140 PAs .973 Valdez 83 .803 Refsnyder 113 .794 Romy 64 .759 Abreu 93 .711 Yoshida 132

KCR lost, but just about everyone else won (BAL, CLE & MIN,) so we could tie with KCR with a win, tonight.

Top OPS in MLB (200+ PAs) 282 players over 200 PAs (about 9 per team) The Top Tier 1. Judge 1.131 2. Ohtani 1.051 3. Soto 1.032 4. Ozuna .981 5. Tucker .979 (262 PAs DNQ for official rankings) 6. Whitt .976 7. Devers .958 8. Rooker .954 9. Harper .933 10. Henderson .933 11. O'Neill .926 (10th out of qualifying players) 19. Betts .892 26. Refsnyder .866 27. Guerrero .865 29. Duran .860 44. Abreu .819 45. Schwarber .817 54. Wong .801 66. JD Martinez .785 Middle Tier starts at .755 (Romy is at .741 with just 103 PAs) 129. Renfroe .722 132. Yoshida .721 ***the 135th player is at .716*** (More or less the MLB mean. 139. J Turner .714 142. T Pham .713 147. DHam .711 165. DeJong .697 169. Rafaela .694 179. Smith .688 Bottom Third: 182. Bogey .688 193. Dubon .678 200. Jansen .671 215. Verdugo .662

Does Keller get another look, after the gem he pitched, today with Woo? 6 IP 5H 0ER 1BB 3K Gasper and Dalbec homered. Meidroth had his second straight 4 hit game (4-5, all singles and no BBs) Grissom 2-5 Yorke 1-5 w 2B POR starts soon. GRE lost 6-5 as Wehunt got shelled. Romero is lifting some eyebrows: 4-5 w HR. (up to .784) Castro 2-5 w 2B (.808) SAL is losing 10-2 2-2 Anderson & Yuten 1-2 Zanetello (triple) & Alcantara

Houck vs Rodon (LHP) We gotta beat a lefty! Only 2 LHBs in today's line-up, as Jansen gets the call to DH. 1. L Duran CF 2. R Refsnyder LF 3. R Wong C 4. L Devers 3B 5. R O'Neill RF 6. R Romy G 1B 7. R Jansen DH 8. R Rafaela SS 9. R Westbrook 2B Game is on ESPN at 7:10 We are almost 24 hours to the trade deadline.

Bumping up for a list of players who might be available...

Trades can still be made for Reese, like we did for Paxton, who was DFA'd. We have until the deadline to trade him, but I'm not expecting one.

Big trade for the Cubs, just announced: To CHC: Isaac Paredes To TBR: Chris Morel, H Bigge & Ty Johnson Others trades in the last few days: To BOS: Danny Jansen To TOR: Cutter Coffey, Paulino & G Batista To BOS: James Paxton To LAD: Moises Bolivar (IF on DSL Blue) To BOS: Yohan Ramirez (off waivers) To SDP: Jason Adams (RP) To TBR: Homer Bush, D Lesko & JD Gonzalez To CHC: Nate Pearson (RP) To TOR: Josh Rivera & Y Pinango To BAL: Zach Eflin (RHP) To TBR: Matthew Etzel (OF,) Jackson Baumeister (RHP,) and Mac Horvath (UT) To PHI: Carlos Estevez To LAA: George Klassen (P) & Samuel Aldegheri (P) To PHI: Austin Hays (OF) To BAL: S Dominguez (RHP) & C Pache (OF) To AZ: AJ Puk (RP) To Mia: Deybison De Los Santos, Andrew Pintar To SEA: Randy Arozarena (OF) a RHB To TBR: Brody Hopkins (single A RHP) and Aidan Smith (OF) + PTBNL To NYY: Jazz Chisholm To MIA: Agustin Ramirez (C-prospect) and 2 others. To SEA: Yimi Garcia To TOR: Jonatan Clase (OF) To NYM: Ryne Stanek (RP) To SEA: Rhylam Thomas (OF) To MIL: Nick Mears To COL: Bradley Blalock & Y Herrera Switch-hitter Josh Bell was placed on waivers.

Y Ramirez is out of options, so he will be joining the 26.

Paxton and Jansen are better than most of Bloom's deadline seasons, and he's not done, yet. 2023: Urias for Blaylock? LOL (earlier: Kike for Robertson? LOL) 2022: Tommy Pham, McGuire and Hosmer? LOL! (Abreu and Valdez for Vaz was good, but not as a buyer) 2021 was a good deadline: Schwarber & Robles (later Iggy and T Shaw) 2020 was a sell deadline. (Pivetta)

Indeed, and that alone should be the impetus for a trade or two. I love Campbell, but if Anthony and Mayer are the real deal, where does he play? I doubt he can play ML 2B, and we have Story and DHam/Grissom. Not LF, as we will have an OF of Duran, Rafaela, Anthony, Abreu/Ref in 2025 and the same without Ref in 2026, but with Lugo, Yorke and others capable of playing LF. DH? Even if we ditch Yoshida, somehow, I'd be happy with a Ref-Valdez platoon at DH for 2025, or a Ref-Abreu platoon, if Anthony squeezes Abreu from the OF. I do NOT want to trade KC, but we could afford to lose him from our positions of strength. If he could play 2B, well, it might be another story.

So, Paxton might push Pivetta or Criswell to the pen- helping it, a little. (Maybe Crawford needs a breather.) Jansen improves our back-up catching and slightly helps our offense vs LHPs. Yohan Ramirez can't be much worse than Anderson, but he is no savior. We need 2-3 more solid RP'ers, of another solid SP'er and 1-3 more RP'ers. Let's go Brez. We can afford to lose any of these players/prospects without putting a big dent in our future: Vadlez Yorke Lugo Meidroth Castro Jordan Trading Fitts, Sandlin or other prospects pitchers is okay, if we get a controllable, upgrade pitcher in return. Trading Grissom or ICampbell would be selling low.

See ya, Chase and Reese. Jansen is a better hitter than Reese, and I think he's okay on D. The metrics show he's about average on pitch-framing (+2 in '23 and -1 in '24) From 2022-2024, Jansen is second best in all MLB at Blocking (+11). In the same timeframe, he was -4 in throwing. Anyone can do what Chase could not do.

Getting good RP'ers are not "big deals." look what others have given up for some, so far. It is not earth-shattering returns.

There are still a lot of good to very good RP'ers out there. Brez better get a few.

At some point, if all of these prospects do as well as we think the will (or might,) we will be so bottle-necked, we will have to trade at least 2-3 from our core of vets and near MLB ready prospects. We could keep some on the farm, as depth and to lengthen their control time, but look at the "13" in 2026 or 2027: Wong & Teel Casas DHam, Campbell & Grissom Story (2B?) & Mayer (Romero) Devers (Meidroth) Duran (Jh. Garcia/Lugo/Yorke/Castro) Rafaela & Anthony Abreu, Bleis Yoshida (Valdez/Lugo/Yorke/Kavadas) Okay, let's say we somehow shed Yoshida and part of his contract by 2026 or 2017 (his last year) and Grissom, too. Let's say someone fizzles out. I still count 14-15 players that look like they deserve a slot on the MLB team by 2026. I did not even mention Jo Garcia, Cespedes, Zanetello and Arias, who may be ready by 2027. Odds are, we don't trade Yoshida or Grissom, so we'd be at 16-18 players for a 13 man roster slot on the big team. We will trade someone, eventually, of wait until someone fizzles and get nothing for him. Or, wait until this winter, or next, make a better determination of who to keep, and make a big deal then. Either way, it will happen. My point is this: trust our talent evaluators to determine who is the best to keep, and who looks most blocked. Trade 2-3 for a controllable pitcher. Even if it is trading guys like Yorke, Lugo, Meidroth, Valdez or a farther away top prospect, we can do it now and not wait. (O'Neill is gone after 2024/ Ref and McGuire after 2025. Nobody else loses team control before 2026.) When you look at our pitching outlook for 2026 and 2027, it looks much worse. We need to eventually trade from our everyday strength and get some pitchers for the future, and why not, now, too? We lose Pivetta, Jansen and Martin after 2024. We lose Gio and Hendriks after 2025. We lose Whitlock after 2026 and Houck after 2027. That's losing more than the everyday player losses between now and 2026 or 2027, and it's already our weakest area!