Nine days until the July 31 MLB non-waiver trade deadline.
That means that Philadelphia Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. has approximately 216 hours to decide if he wants to cash in several large trade chips. He could wait until after July 31, of course, but then he risks limiting his leverage by a considerable margin.
Amaro Jr. is not alone. There are plenty of other GMs around MLB who don’t have much longer to decide whether or not they will dump stock or add to their portfolios.
So let’s take a look at some of the bigger names that are presumably on the trade block.
For the sake of brevity, we will keep it simple. Here are three MLB trade scenarios based on actual need and published rumors from the week ending Sunday, July 13.
As a standard note, the following proposals are nothing more than postulation. The point here is to build a trade based on someone else’s written or spoken word.
They are balanced deals that are fair for each team, though, and take into consideration each franchise’s strengths and weaknesses.