• If you've been watching the Giants this week, Matt Gage has been throwing as well as he has in years, and it's amazing what being fat will do for a career, especially that of a man who has gone through so much.


• St. Louis is going to deal Tink Hence and Willson Contreras and try to sign Matt Svanson and keep him out of the market, especially if they can assemble a three-way deal that would send Lourdes Gurriel Jr. to Chicago and bring Ben Brown to the Cardinals. Someday, somewhere perhaps Brown will stop being so normal., until Adrian Del Castillo


• Orioles GM Mike Elias works miracles with the payroll, and if Andrew Kittredge holds up, may have done it again, with Brandon Young and Tyler Wells et al anchoring the staff.


• The Rays have cash restrictions and say they are satisfied with their production at first base, but. Priorities have a way of changing as the deadline approaches and players like Tyler Black (Brewers) and Alec Bohm (Phillies) become available.

ballad of ben cherington

the Rockies are continuing
to try to work out some sort of deal with
Pirates for
              Carmen Mlodzinski

but talking to
Ben Cherington can be like
talking to a koala bone
at times

so they are now talking to the Athletics about a Jack Perkins - Bradley Blalock

deal

 

 

 

 

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