2025 MLB Trading Deadline

[RandyMarsh]

I wonder if the Red Sox would entertain the thought of trading Giolito? He pitched another good game today bringing his season ERA down to 3.99. While that isn't great it is worth noting that he gave up 19 runs in 3 disaster starts but in the other 9 he only gave up 7 total. I can live with some blowout starts if you are giving up under 2 runs the other 75% of your starts. 

[HugoD]

On 6/26/2025 at 8:52 AM, tiger2022 said:

Might as well rush him to the majors too.  He played most of last season in A ball and did okay, but he is 23 with 60 games this season in AA.   Getting rid of Tork and bringing him up way before he is ready sounds like a disaster for the rest of the season and for the years ahead.

Yeah, maybe Tork is “coming back down to earth”, but he’s still likely to hit 30 bombs.  I’m definitely OK with that, plus he does seem to have improved his approach.  As someone recently said about QBs, you can always do worse, which rushing Anderson would be imo.

[HugoD]

Also, Tork’s babip is .254, which is below average despite decent EV and good barrel rates.  Basically,  his results seem sustainable and likely to improve.  Hope I’m not jinxing him 😀

[RatkoVarda]

16 minutes ago, LongLiveMaroth said:

I'm going to say that if Harris made any offer for Hayes, it would be accepted immediately. He's really horrible at the plate; multiple back injuries have robbed him of the below average power he did have; he is at Baez level from last year, 62 RC+. Owed $36 million over the next 4 years to give you great defense and nothing else. Rather spend that money on a BP arm. Hard pass unless the elite D holds some special lure for Harris and AJ.

[SoCalTiger]

Not so sure we need a bat or starter. Wouldn’t give up much for either that’s for sure. What we need is two dependable relievers. 

[gehringer_2]

3 hours ago, SoCalTiger said:

Not so sure we need a bat or starter. Wouldn’t give up much for either that’s for sure. What we need is two dependable relievers. 

At this point I'm guessing we are going to see Lange far enough ahead of the deadline to get an evaluation. He has made 4 rehab appearances, 4 IP, 4H 7K 1BB. If he keeps controlling the walks through a few more outings I don't see why they wouldn't bring him up ---and Hurter can't be more than one more bad outing from being sent down.

[Tiger337]

With the depth of their roster, there is not much reason to acquire a postion player unless he's a star.  I think they will acquire pitching help especially relievers.  I would never rule out acquiring a starter though.  You can never ever have too much pitching.  

[gehringer_2]

38 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

With the depth of their roster, there is not much reason to acquire a postion player unless he's a star.  I think they will acquire pitching help especially relievers.  I would never rule out acquiring a starter though.  You can never ever have too much pitching.  

Likelihood of seeing Cobb this season sure appears to be slipping away.

[Shinzaki]

Anderson is 23 years old and has almost a 1000 AB's of MiLB experience after playing college ball.  I would hardly call bringing him up this season rushing him.

I'm not suggesting we jump at the chance to move on from Tork...but if the opprtunity comes to make a big swing at a quality SP and he's part of the ask...I would strongly consider it

Edited Sunday at 04:02 AM by Shinzaki

[1984Echoes]

5 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

With the depth of their roster, there is not much reason to acquire a position player unless ...

Also... 

I think two of the most likely candidates to be called up (IMO), if they are looking for an IF fix, are Hao Yu Lee and/or Max Anderson. I don't see a need for a position player trade either.

Unless...

5 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

... unless he's a star...

Austin Riley?

[1984Echoes]

4 hours ago, Shinzaki said:

Anderson is 23 years old and has almost a 1000 AB's of MiLB experience after playing college ball.  I would hardly call bringing him up this season rushing him...

This. 

 

4 hours ago, Shinzaki said:

...but if the opportunity comes to make a big swing at a quality SP and he's part of the ask... I would strongly consider (trading Tork).

I'm on board with this.

[holygoat]

22 hours ago, LongLiveMaroth said:

 

Is this as lazy a take as it seems to me? Why would the Tigers want an all-glove/no-stick 3B when we have Z-Mac, Matty V, Javeer and Colt on the current roster? All of them are adequate defenders, and all of them provide far better offense. I mean, who are you sending down to make room for Hayes? Bregman and Suarez make sense for Detroit. Hayes makes zero sense.

[RandyMarsh]

To me at least 1 high level reliever and another dependable starter are the biggest needs. Yeah our current starting pitching situation isn't terrible but I want to have as many options as possible come October and I would feel alot more comfortable having at least 1 more guy. 

If I knew for sure Olson would be healthy and pitching like he is capable of, Mize was being reliable and Flaherty was pitching like the good version of himself then sure we wouldn't need one but history suggests the likelihood of that happening is slim.

More likely than not at least 1 or 2 of those guys is either going to be struggling or hurt which as it stands would mean we'd have to potentially have 2 or more games in a series with either a struggling pitcher, "pitching chaos" or somebody like Montero or SGL.

I don't like that at all, by getting another reliable guy it would at least mitigate those chances, if everything works out and all those ideal situations happen like I mentioned above then you have the luxury of moving somebody like Mize/Flaherty/Olson or the acquired pitcher to the pen. 

Edited Sunday at 07:47 PM by RandyMarsh

[Longgone]

17 hours ago, Shinzaki said:

Anderson is 23 years old and has almost a 1000 AB's of MiLB experience after playing college ball.  I would hardly call bringing him up this season rushing him.

I'm not suggesting we jump at the chance to move on from Tork...but if the opprtunity comes to make a big swing at a quality SP and he's part of the ask...I would strongly consider it

Big jump from AA to the bigs

[Tiger337]

8 minutes ago, Longgone said:

Big jump from AA to the bigs

Yes and it seems a lot harder than it used to be.

[tiger2022]

19 hours ago, Shinzaki said:

Anderson is 23 years old and has almost a 1000 AB's of MiLB experience after playing college ball.  I would hardly call bringing him up this season rushing him.

I'm not suggesting we jump at the chance to move on from Tork...but if the opprtunity comes to make a big swing at a quality SP and he's part of the ask...I would strongly consider it

Teams dont trade a guy who will hit 30+ homers during a playoff run to get a player at another position.