Matthew Pouliot

That's not Dylan Beavers. Of course, they do need to add more than one player.

Adams is hitting .185/.283/.282 in Triple-A. 65 strikeouts and 55 total bases in 235 plate appearances.

Raisel Iglesias and Dennis Santana staying put baffles me. Unless the Pirates announce a modest extension for Santana tomorrow.

Like Castro for the Cubs. Gives them a chance to stick with Shaw and see if he can keep it going, but now they have much better insurance if that fails to pay off.

I imagine they'll mix and match him in against righties, but he is struggling of late.

RF Tatis
1B Arraez
3B Machado
DH O'Hearn
LF Laureano
CF Merrill
SS Bogaerts
2B Cronenworth
C Fermin

That feels like the first nine-deep Padres lineup in a long time.

Hope Luis Campusano gets thrown into one of these deals. He should hit, even if he can't catch.

Pity the person responsible for maintaining the Mets' top 30 prospects list. Gavin Cecchini is going to be back on there tomorrow.

If the NFL had a rule where every time your QB was sacked, you had to bring in a new one who hadn't previously played in the game.

July 31, 2026: Yankees acquire RHP Carmen Mlodzinski from the Pirates for OF Spencer Jones.

And they're right, of course, because the Phillies simply wouldn't.

I like how every time the Phillies pick up an outfielder and people wonder who he'll play over, it's never suggested that he replace the guy with 1.5 WAR in 561 games over the last four years.

Maybe fix arbitration so that a player worth this much in trade isn't earning less than guys like Austin Gomber, Andrew Vaughn and Gregory Soto.

Hayes' contract is so cheap ($7-$8 million per year through 2029) that the downside simply comes from running him out there if he becomes truly unplayable. He's probably a downgrade from Marte right now, but Marte can play elsewhere. Still think it's 1B that should have been the focus in Cincy.

Replace me, Grok.

One final pre-trade deadline update for my rest-of-season top 300.

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Need a Flatliners remake about a group of prop-betting, banned-for-life major leaguers.

Cavalli is 0-4 with a 10.06 ERA since the outing DeBartolo is referring to.

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Make the All-Star Game a real game. Give Skenes and Skubal $1 million bonuses and the Pirates and Tigers draft pick compensation for them to throw 90-100 pitches. Would be so much more fun to watch than this.

Already know I'm not lasting long listening to this broadcast.

BTW, Harold Reynolds was caught stealing 29 times versus 35 successes in 1988. B-Ref has him at -14 runs on the basepaths for his career. That's the worst mark of the 166 players with 250 steals since 1900.

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The NL All-Star snub outfield is maybe better than the AL's actual outfield. Soto, Suzuki, Pages, Chourio, Nimmo, Merrill/Friedl vs. Judge, Greene, Báez, Buxton, Kwan, Julio.

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Austin Riley did, but it was reported as just a hand fracture when it happened.

Matt Mervis had one as well, but he was a minor leaguer at the time.

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Yelich is the first to do it without scoring a run. Only three players had driven in seven runs without scoring: Granny Hammer and Ted Williams in 1948 and Joe Girardi in 1999.

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Since 1901, players with eight RBI and no homers:

Bill Keister - June 29, 1901
Gavy Cravath - Aug. 8, 1915
Christian Yelich - June 20, 2025

I obviously strongly dislike the beanball stuff regardless, but throwing at someone on a 3-0 count is the absolute lamest thing a pitcher can do.

Hate challenge systems. It should simply be about getting calls right.

The Dodgers are so desperate for pitching they're letting their DH open tomorrow?

I needed to rant.