Welcome to the 2024 Trade Deadline Roundup. All trades will be added to this article as they are reported.     July 30 Baltimore Orioles acquire DH/OF Eloy Jiménez (-$9.5M) and cash ($5.5M) from the Chicago White Sox in exchange for LHP Trey McGough ($0.3M) It took some time for the cash to be reported in this one, but it'll be a base $4.0M for 2024 and then an additional $1.5M if the Orioles choose to buy out Jiménez's 2025 club option. Given his projected...

Our model currently estimates Shohei Ohtani’s median trade value at $45.0M. Meanwhile, the media and fans alike are going wild, suggesting massive trade packages in exchange for the two-way star. So who’s correct? Is our model too low on Ohtani? We don’t think so. For starters, his $45.0M value is by far the largest we’ve ever seen for a rental. That tracks -- Ohtani is two star players in one, and one could argue there has never been a player of his magnitude in the...

Please note that values may have changed since the time of proposals. All stats are accurate prior to play on 7/7/23. Steve Cohen’s Mets and Peter Seidler’s Padres have spent the last few years flexing their financial muscles to a historic degree. But to this point, they have not seen anywhere near the return on their investment that they were expecting. Both teams are well below .500 and sitting fourth in their respective divisions. So what’s next? Will they cut some of...

The 2022-23 offseason was a relatively quiet one on the trade front. The biggest names to change teams were Sean Murphy, Daulton Varsho, Gabriel Moreno, Pablo Lopez and Luis Arraez - all excellent (and valuable) players, but sharing only a single All-Star Game appearance between them (Arraez, in 2022). And after those five, who appeared in three total trades, it was a large drop-off to the next biggest deal. Cole Irvin? Gregory Soto? Miguel Rojas? That’s due in no small part to an...

Welcome to the 2022 Trade Deadline Roundup. All trades will be added to this article as they are reported. Alex Havers and Dan Bannon contributed to this article. – – – August 2 Milwaukee Brewers acquire RHP Trevor Rosenthal ($0.0M) from the San Francisco Giants in exchange for OF Tristan Peters ($0.1M) This one was odd, as the Giants had just signed Rosenthal. It seems they wanted to get out from his remaining salary. The Brewers add yet another piece to their post-Hader...

It’s officially trade season! With the deadline less than a month away, rumors are starting to pick up. Use this primer to prepare yourself before the action really starts. What You Need to Know Thanks in part to the new CBA, this deadline will be a little different from what we’re used to. For one, it is a little later in the season than usual – Tuesday, August 2 at 6 p.m. ET. The new CBA allows the commissioner to set a date between July 28 and August 3 for each season,...