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Doubt Adams is outpitching anyone this year at the big league level. Certainly not as a starter.

Livvy Dunne?

Brazoban was 5-2 with a 2.56 ERA this season. The right-hander was in his third season with the Mets, after being acquired from the Marlins in July 2024. He went 10-5 with a 3.42 ERA in 117 appearances as a Met, including nine as an opener. nypost.com

https://www.reddit.com/r/NewYorkMets/comments/1ve4bjf/brazoban_traded_to_the_white_sox/ Comment at the end about who imagined Mets selling off to White Sox is funny.... Lots of comments about collecting OkState players and Davis' suspect minor league numbers/big arm potential.

https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/tigers-reach-hollow-ending-to-tarik-skubal-era-begin-to-turn-the-page-with-trade-to-dodgers-060049773.html

White Sox determined to increase their Dominican count, haha. +1 for now with Dominguez gone and Castillo added

spotrac.comHuascar Brazoban Contract, Salary & Cap Hit 2026 | SpotracHuascar Brazoban signed a 1 year, $1,050,000 contract with the New York Mets with an average annual salary of $1,050,000.Only owed $400,000 for remainder of season, and then three arbitration years

All managers love their reliable veterans down the stretch

https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/savant-player/huascar-brazoban-623211&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjSjZT74YOWAxUWLEQIHWurMuMQFnoECAUQAg&usg=AOvVaw26b1vIxQlfjWZhrMJUZzhy Five pitches, but primarily sinker and changeup

Nobody would claim him and take all that remaining salary on...but they could negotiate during that ten day window.

https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/tarik-skubal-trade-lets-look-at-the-dodgers-preposterous-rotation-with-a-new-ace-aboard-052206723.html Eric Lauer's going to make sense for a number of teams out there. Superfluous in LA right now. The Dodgers got Lauer for basically nothing in May after he was designated for assignment after 36 1/3 terrible innings for the Toronto Blue Jays, where he was openly disgruntled about his role. Lauer has now appeared in nine games for the Dodgers, with eight starts. The Dodgers have won all nine of those games. He has been a great find for the team while some of the above pitchers have hit the IL. Odds are decent L.A. trades him away within the next two days.

Yes eight teams in total

Or the Brewers/Rays. Just can't be LAD Yankees Braves Cubs Red Sox....heck even the Astros and Alvarez would be a pretty amazing story in its own right. Cleveland and Minnesota being competitive are further counterexamples. The argument will be 2/3 biggest payrolls in NYM and Blue Jays are total disasters.

I'd say 3/4 are questionable.

https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/zyhir-hope-big-name-tigers-115047481.html

Rays acquiring Peralta

And Benintendi's

You mean Castillo as 4/5...?

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2026/08/02/tarik-skubla-trade-detroit-tigers-los-angeles-tigrs-mlb-trade-deadline/91139054007/

None of the prospects the Dodgers gave up was viewed as crucial to the team’s future. It was hard to figure out how Hope was going to ever play in Los Angeles—he was considered the third-best outfield prospect on his own Double-A Tulsa team, behind Josue De Paula and Mike Sirota (and Quintero as well). Ryan has shown front-of-the-rotation stuff at his best, but he’s topped 50 innings in a season only once since he was drafted in 2022, and he’ll turn 28 this month. Smith has MLB-quality stuff, but he’s a Class A pitcher who has already missed significant time with an elbow injury. The Tigers got a normal level of return for Skubal, but if Skubal dominates teams in the postseason, it will leave many wondering if would it have been wise for someone else to overpay a bit in prospects to keep the team that has everything from adding one of the best pitchers in baseball? https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/tigers-land-zyhir-hope-river-ryan-brady-smith-in-tarik-skubal-trade/

They do think that he can stick in CFA (for now)...but there's a considerable difference of opinion about how true that will be down the line as he fills out. At the very least, adding Max Clark and Greene into the mix make for a very nice outfield trio. Now the big question shifts to whether the Tigers will eventually have enough pitching if you also trade Mize? https://www.espn.com.sg/mlb/story/_/id/49469642/mlb-trade-deadline-grades-2026-tarik-skubal-los-angeles-dodgers-detroit-tigers-blockbuster A=Dodgers D=Tigers F=the rest of baseball fans

They are...unless you mean Dominguez and his buyout. No way JR was taking on all that money without an offset somewhere... Boston Smith was essentially the "JR cost" of sending Dominguez out.

Skubal Yamamoto Ohtani??? Snell Glasnow Sheehan Wrobleski All Star Sasaki back to pen for postseason...averaging 99.5 fb in recent starts Detroit is also likely to trade Mize as well...opening two rotation spots B- "The Tigers got a solid return, but they failed to land Josue De Paula, Mike Sirota or Eduardo Quintero, who are L.A.’s top outfield prospects. It’s also worth noting that they didn’t need to be here. Detroit severely lowballed him during discussions about a long-term extension. And this offseason, it only offered him $19 million in arbitration, which was, frankly, insulting. In the end, Skubal won his arbitration case for a record $32 million. There was no coming back. They should have traded him at that point instead of waiting for the deadline and taking a smaller return. The franchise put itself in this position by not locking up its star player and accepted a package that is below his market value." https://www.si.com/mlb/tarik-skubal-trade-grades-how-tigers-dodgers-did-in-deal-for-cy-young-winner

Not even going to get their best prospect for a two month rental unless he's willing to sign an extension like Freddy Garcia did with the Sox. (Unless you're dealing with a river boat gambler like AJ Preller...)

Ryan/all about health the hitter is an acknowledged great prospect (so was Torkelson) with a questionable body who ends up at a corner or DH...Yordan Lite