Good teams shuffle bodies to get the weekend’s swag into uniform, while bad ones start taking a look at the stars of the future. All this, and Ryan Dempster, too, in the post-deadline edition of TA.
It’s a key time in the baseball season, as teams make decisions on how to get the most out of tired, banged-up ballplayers now while keeping an eye on the standings and the calendar. Will Carroll updates the injury status of more than a dozen of them, and has a kind word for Brad Radke, in today’s UTK.
The PECOTA projection that has garnered the most attention this year is the one for the Reds’ Wily Mo Pena. Nate Silver breaks down how PECOTA arrived at such an optimistic–and accurate–prediction.
After much dithering about, major league GMs were finally able to cobble together a respectable trade deadline after all. My Prospectus confreres have done an excellent job in deconstructing these deals with regard to how they’ll affect organizations at the major league level. Now I’m going to take a gander at the prospects involved.
The Marlins upgrade their awful catcher situation, but at what cost? The Yankees unload an albatross in Jose Contreras. The Pirates get an average haul for an average pitcher. These and other news and notes out of Florida, New York and Pitssburgh in today’s Prospectus Triple Play.