Last-minute MLB trade deadline intel: What Buster Olney and Jeff Passan are hearing
While this year's deals were slow to develop, the biggest summer blockbuster came with the Los Angeles Dodgers landing Tarik Skubal late Saturday night --...
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- While this year's deals were slow to develop, the biggest summer blockbuster came with the Los Angeles Dodgers landing Tarik Skubal late Saturday night -- and there are plenty of big moves ahead with less than 36 hours to deal before the 6 p.m.
- Which contenders will go big to add the best available players after the Dodgers' latest splash?
- Olney: The Skubal situation held up the massive market for starting pitchers, and so in the last 36 hours before the deadline, among the contending teams, it'll feel like Oprah handing out goodies to an audience: And you get a starting pitcher, and you get a starting pitcher, and you get a starting pitcher...
- Outside of the Skubal trade, which deal do you think will have the biggest impact on the rest of the season?
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While this year's deals were slow to develop, the biggest summer blockbuster came with the Los Angeles Dodgers landing Tarik Skubal late Saturday night -- and there are plenty of big moves ahead with less than 36 hours to deal before the 6 p.m. Which contenders will go big to add the best available players after the Dodgers' latest splash? Olney: The Skubal situation held up the massive market for starting pitchers, and so in the last 36 hours before the deadline, among the contending teams, it'll feel like Oprah handing out goodies to an audience: And you get a starting pitcher, and you get a starting pitcher, and you get a starting pitcher... Outside of the Skubal trade, which deal do you think will have the biggest impact on the rest of the season? Olney: Bryce Harper said the other day that the Phillies need help, and he might as well have been speaking for the Braves, Yankees, Brewers, Rays, Cubs -- and in this parade of deals that is now imminent, with Skubal off the board, those deals will happen. The Phillies will add a starting pitcher and a reliever.