How Tarik Skubal's potential trade is impacting rest of the market
Major League Baseball teams are preparing for the upcoming trade deadline, with several high-profile players being scratched from starts as trade talks intensify. The market is currently in a state of anticipation following a relatively quiet period.
Why it matters
Trade deadlines significantly impact team rosters and competitive balance for the remainder of the MLB season.
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton” tells us, “In the eye of a hurricane, there is quiet.”
If that is to be believed, the storm is coming soon.
As teams around the Majors contemplate how to approach Monday’s Trade Deadline, Friday was an uneventful day on the trade front.
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The Twins acquired reliever A.J. Minter from the Mets late Thursday night, but as the hours passed on Friday, that deal proved to be an outlier.
Not that there weren’t interesting happenings around the league, some of which should be viewed as precursors to moves to come.
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