Parents, Astros, Yankees and Mets dominate change market closure
The last hours of the MLB change market were vibrant and parents, Astros, Yankees and Mets dominated them
The San Diego Padres, Houston Astros, New York Yankees and New York Mets dominated the last hours of a vibrant intermediate market of changes in the major league baseball (MLB).
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In the last two days 42 transactions were made, including 33 on Thursday, which involved dozens of players.
In another San Diego shake to try to end the domain of the Dodgers in the West Division of the National League, and incidentally approach their first championship, the parents got the Mason Miller closer and the opener JP Sears from the Athletics, the Dominican gardener Ramón Laureano and the designated batter Ryan O’Hearn from the Baltimore Orioles, Néstor Cortés from the Milwaukee Brewers and the Venezuelan receiver Freddy Fermín from the Kansas City Royals.
Sacrifice prospects has never been a problem for the general manager AJ Prellerwho now gave a large package of them in the last hours. More notable, San Diego sacrificed the Super Dominican prospect Leodalis de Vriessending to the future torpedo all stars to Athletics to get the services of Miller, who is not in its best form (3.76 of effectiveness), but which in three years has crushed the hitters with 201 strikeouts in 136.2 innings.
In need of an antealist and to improve a decayed bullpen, the Yankees won a consolation prize with Ryan McMahon, whom they won from the Colorado Rockies, after not agreeing with the Seattle Mariners by the Venezuelan Eugenio Suárez.
McMahon has much better glove than Suárez and will be under control (with a contract that will pay $ 16 million in each of the next two seasons) until 2027.
In addition to McMahon, New York also added to his committed Roster the gardener Austin Slater from the Chicago White Sox, to the Dominican Utility Amed Rosario from the Washington Nationals, the Torpedero José Caballero from the Tampa Bay Rays and the proven relieved David Bednar, from the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Dominican Camilo Doval, from the San Francisco Giants.
Houston, who dominates the west division of the American League by five games about Texas and Seattle, surprisingly acquired his former Torpedo star, the Puerto Rican Carlos Correa, from the Minnesota Twins, to play in the third base instead of the Mexican injured Isaac Paredes, who could miss the rest of the season for a serious corva injury.
The stars also got another player who can defend the hot corner, the Mexican Ramón Urias, from the Baltimore Orioles, as well as the Dominican gardener Jesús Sánchez from the Miami Marlins.
Correa, one of the most productive players of the Major Leagues since 2015, exhibited the worst PAHO of his career (.704) in the middle of the third season of his $ 200 million dollars contract for six years with Minnesota. The Puerto Rican is owed more than $ 100 million of the pact.
In addition to improving his roster, Houston had as an incentive to respond to the acquisition of the Mariners, who stayed with Suárez, the best batter that was available in the market.
Suárez, who has 36 homers and 87 races promoted in 106 games, returned to Seattle, where he was in 2022 and 2023, for just $ 5 million, before becoming a free agent.
The Rangers got the opener Merrill Kelly from Arizona and Phil Maton from San Luis.
The market was widely dominated by those relieved in the first part of the last three days. In recent years, having a deep bullpen has been the difference to win the World Series or leave early from the playoffs.
The Mets and the Phillies, wrapped in the most closed battle of the whole year for the first place of a division, were aggressive in improving their relief bodies.
The Mets, who have the best closer in the game, the Puerto Rican Edwin Díaz (5-0, 1.48 of Era and 13.50 strikeouts for 9ip), added to the Dominican left-hand baseball
But the Mets also improved another area of great need such as the central garden, acquiring the stellar Cedric Mullins from Baltimore.
The Phillies did not add a lot, but a great quality, getting Dominican law Jhoan Durán from Minnesota. Since he debuted in 2022, Durán leads MLB with pitching launched at more than 100 miles per hour and has an effectiveness of 2.47 and 11.2 strikeouts for 9ip in his career.
Philadelphia, too, got the defensive gardener Harrison Bader from the Twins.
The Chicago Cubs, recently dethroned at the top in the central division of the National League by the Milwaukee Brewers, reinforced the bullpen with the right Andrew Kitredge, a veteran and proven reliever, and the right opener Michael Soroka.
To get Kitredge, Chicago gave Baltimore to the Dominican Torpedo Wilfri de la Cruz, a batter of both hands who signed professionalism for a $ 2.3 million dollar bonus this year. Soroka was in Washington.
Chicago also stayed with the Dominicopuerrírtorricño Utility Willi Castro from Minnesota and reliever Taylor Rogers from the Pirates.
Milwaukee fished to the recipient Danny Jansen from the Tampa Bay Rays to give a better support to the Venezuelan stellar William Contreras and the launchers Shelby Miller and Jordan Montgomery (be for the rest of the year) from Arizona.
The Toronto Blue Jays, who dominate the East Division of the American League, acquired Dominican reliever Seanthony Domínguez from the Orioles, and played it by getting the stellar opener Shane Bieber from the Cleveland Guardians.
Bieber, a winner of the Cy Young award, has not launched in MLB since April 2024 and is currently in a process of rehabilitation of Tommy John surgery. If everything is fine with your arm, you should debut with the tiles within the next two weeks and play a role in the race for the division title. The return return returns, however, are usually slow and painful processes.
The Detroit Tigers, who have seen their advantage in the central division of the American League from 14 to nine games in three weeks, added to the reliefs Paul Sewald, from Cleveland, Kyle Finnegan, from Washington, and the Dominican Rafael Montero, from the Atlanta Braves, to improve one of the areas of concern of the club of the Motor City.
Among the teams of the young circuit with playoff stalls, only the Yankees (4.24 of EFE) have worse relief than the Tigers (4.16).
The Boston Red Sox, occupants of the second wild card of his league, took the services of Zurdo Steven Matz, who is in the last year of the contract he signed with the Cardinals. A starter for almost his entire career, Matz was leaving from the oven in San Luis this year.
Los Angeles Dodgers, whose terrible bullpen (4.24 of effective and 1.34 of whip) and a plague of injuries threaten the defense of their championship, were basically excluded from the race by the best arms that were exchanged, although that does not mean that they did not acquire arms.
The Dodgers who in recent weeks changed the Dominican Luis García and fired the American Lou Trivino, got the reliefs Paul Gervase and Adam Serwinowski and to the receiver Ben Rortvedt in a change that also involved the Tampa Bay Rays and the Cincinnati Reds. While Gervase barely appeared in five games with the Rays, Serwinowski and Rortvedt were in minor leagues.
Tampa Bay, who is three games from the third wild card of the young circuit, made the services of the minor leagues receiver Hunter Feducciawho was given by Los Angeles.
The Dodgers then agreed with Minnesota to keep the effective rights Brock Stewart and later changed to the opener Dustin May to Boston.
Cincinnati, liabilities for most of recent years in this part of the season, was aggressive, getting the antealist Ke´Bryan Hays from the Pittsburgh Pirates rivals, and the opening pitcher Zach Littell from the Rays in the triple change with Dodgers. The reds enter three games from a playoffs
