Yesterday, the Kansas City Royals traded for Josh Willingham. They also moved into first place in the American League Central after winning their eighth straight game. The Royals success in 2014 is a continuation of what they were able to accomplish in 2013; a 86-76
Somewhat surprising news out of Washington, where the Nationals recently placed Ian Desmond, Gio Gonzalez, Stephen Strasburg and Bryce Harper on revocable waivers. Desmond and Gonzalez actually made it through, meaning the Nats can now trade them to any team in either league. Coming into
Kevin Correia is now a Dodger, a day after Josh Beckett was placed on the disabled list with a bad hip. The Dodgers will trade a player-to-be-named later to the Twins for Correia, who had passed through waivers early this week. He will compete with
Jacob Turner just turned 23. Before the 2012 season, the big right-hander was a consensus top 20 prospect for the Detroit Tigers. He was traded to the Marlins mid-season in the Anibal Sanchez/ Omar Infante deal and put on the big club. Although his win-lose record doesn’t
As predicated earlier today, a Phillies pitcher is headed to Los Angeles. However, we had Jonathan Papelbon and/or Cole Hamels going to the Dodgers, when the moved hurler was in fact Roberto Hernandez. For the services of the artist formally known as Fausto Carmona (and
Last week, we declared Jonathan Papelbon “a lock” to make through waivers. Yesterday, we got word that the closer did make it through, and now the Phillies can trade him to any team in either league. Papelbon’s performance this year has been quite good; a
Yesterday, the Feds arrested controversial Biogenesis founder Tony Bosch on conspiracy to distribute anabolic steroids. Six others also went down, including Alex Rodriguez‘s cousin Yuri Sucart, and Juan Carlos Nunez, who worked for ACES, the agency which has already had ten-Biogenesis-tied players suspended. According to
The non-waiver trade deadline has come and gone. However, teams still have to midnight of August 31 to acquire a player and still have him be eligible for their playoff roster. The difference now is that a player would have to pass through the waivers before
Last night we broke down baseball’s trade deadline winners and losers. We didn’t mention Toronto as winners or losers, but perhaps that was an oversight, as a couple of the team’s own players have given GM Alex Anthopoulos the big thumbs down for not making
Today the Cleveland Indians flipped Justin Masterson to the Cardinals for outfield prospect James Ramsey, and if the latest rumors are correct the surprisingly bad Red Sox are trading surprisingly solid John Lackey to the surprisingly almost-average Marlins. Here nine other players, besides Lackey, who should be