MLB Trade Deadline 2024: Buyers, Sellers, and Key Players
Category
🥇
SportsTranscript
00:00with the trade deadline just 13 days away. That's July 30th into Tuesdays. Here are some
00:09teams we expect to buy. The Phillies have the best record in all of baseball, the Orioles
00:15and the Yankees, of course, in the American League, the Dodgers always dealing at the
00:19deadline and the Atlanta Braves, the sellers, those teams near the basement. The Angels
00:26not maybe as bad as we expected, but my trout dealing with injuries, Anthony Rendon, not
00:32happy. The A's Mason Miller could be on that trade block. Brett Rooker as well. The Rockies
00:39not sure what assets they have to give the Miami Marlins and the Chicago White Sox. The
00:44RSD, you agree with the list of the five teams we have in the buyers component and the five
00:48teams we have may be selling at the deadline. Yeah, they make some sense. And again, the
00:52buyers always should be the Phillies, Orioles, Yankees, Dodgers and Braves, the teams that
00:56we think are going to win the World Series. It's very rare that when you get in the, you
00:59know, encompassing of we think we can make a run, you better maximize that product on
01:04the field. I think those teams will try to do that. We talk about the Braves. How significant
01:08will those moves be? I don't know. But I know that front office and trust them with the
01:12moves they make will help that ballclub. The question is going to be also, even if you
01:16don't want to make a move, Ben, right, it's imperative that you get into the race because
01:20number one, maybe you can steal players and let's just say the Phillies and the Dodgers,
01:25they're both going after the same pitcher. Well, if you get them, that's a double win
01:27because then the Dodgers didn't get them. But if you don't get them, you want to drive
01:31that price up high enough that it makes it painful for the other team trying to get them
01:35to actually inquire about those said players. But if you are saying to yourself, the sellers,
01:40the angels, they should have been sellers multiple times over the years. This might
01:43be one of the worst one franchises in a major market city that had so much talent and never
01:48won a damn thing. Like if you're telling me you might have had it again, Ben, when
01:52it's all said and done, two of the top five baseball players to ever lace them up and
01:57you're not going to get anything for those two guys when you should have done that. Like
02:01let's just roll reverse a year and a half ago. If you say, you know what, I don't think
02:05we can afford a tonic at this point, which is ludicrous, should have paid him whatever
02:07he wanted to immediately and said, we'll match any price because that's good business sense
02:11to keep that guy in town. But you could have traded him for an absolute crazy haul and
02:16you could have done the same thing with Mike Trout. You could have rebuilt that organization
02:19from top to bottom. And in three to four years, starting seeing the fruits of that labor in
02:23the trades with hopefully those prospects working out. So it's no shame to see them
02:27once again here. But the questions come up like the Oakland Athletics. This is a team
02:31that we can't understand why Major League Baseball is allowing this to happen. And again,
02:35the jokes write themselves like your only all star was basically going to show up at
02:39Philadelphia International Airport and wait in a lounge to actually get a flight to the
02:43All-Star Game when the Phillies like, no, no, no, bro. Come over on the side of the
02:47locker room. We got everything five star. We'll take care of you. That should be an
02:49embarrassing nonetheless, that you shouldn't be allowed to have happen. It should be private
02:53jets for everybody and every player that makes it to the Major League Baseball organization
02:57or All-Star Game. Excuse me. But moving forward with it, like what are they going to do over
03:01the next three to four years? Are they just going to pare this payroll down to five, six,
03:05seven million dollars if that's even possible here? It's almost unfair what's happening
03:09there. So when you get a pitch like Mason Miller, hey, I can have a closure, Ben, for
03:1315 years on my roster, that's dominant. You're like, hey, who can we flip them for? Because
03:17we'll get that next player and in two years when he's good, we'll flip him again. So it's
03:21crazy what the Oakland Athletics are going to do with the deadline. Some really good
03:23talent on that team. They're just going to pare it down once again.