Locked On Cardinals - Daily Podcast On The St. Louis Cardinals - MLB SQUAD SHOW CHAOS: Trade Deadline FRENZY Reshapes MLB Landscape

Episode Date: August 1, 2025

Several teams stun with a flurry of deadline deals, while others leave fans scratching their heads. Our hosts break down which clubs had a successful deadline, especially the teams that got multiple players without sacrificing top prospects. Plus, roster overhauls, trading away local favorites, spark frustration among some fanbases.Tune in for expert analysis on how these moves reshape the MLB landscape and impact playoff races.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!5-Hour ENERGYTime to fuel up and turn it up with 5-hour ENERGY®️ Transfusion! Go to https://5hourenergy.com today and use my promo code LOCKEDONGOLF to receive 20% off your order. This offer is only valid until September 30th on one order and cannot be used with other promotions. The code is not good on subscription orders. Supply HouseJoin the TradeMaster program today at SupplyHouse.com/TM and start ordering plumbing, HVAC, and electrical supplies with just a few clicks. Plus, use promo code S-H-5 for 5% off your first order. That’s SupplyHouse.com!OpenPhoneStreamline and scale your customer communications with OpenPhone. Get 20% off your first 6 months at www.openphone.com/lockedonmlbGameday HueLet your colors talk—because colors speak louder than words. Right now, you can get 15% off with code MLB15 at GamedayHue.com.Monarch MoneyTake control of your finances with Monarch Money. Use code LOCKEDONMLB at monarchmoney.com/lockedonmlb for 50% off your first year.GametimeDownload the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONMLB for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply. Download Gametime today. What time is it? Gametime.FanDuelRight now, new customers can get ONE HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS in BONUS BETS when your first FIVE DOLLAR BET WINS! Download the app or head to FANDUEL.COM to get started. Bet with FanDuel—Official Partner of the NBA.FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Some were worried it would be a slow trade deadline, but really it was the trade deadline for procrastinators, because, man, a lot of things happened in the last five minutes. Step up to the plate. It's the Locked-on MLB Squad Show, sponsored by game time. From the Dodgers to the Astros, the Mets to the Rangers, and everyone else in the league, with the experts of the Locked-on podcast network bringing you the most comprehensive breakdown of all the action around the horn. We're coming in spikes up. No hurt feelings allowed. So squad up. Welcome into the latest edition of the Lockdown MLB Squad Show. We have a packed squad for you here today because joining me is Brian McKeon from Lockdown

Yankees. Brandon Warren from Lockdown Twins. Moment of silence for him. Okay. Well, we also have Justin Nader from Lockdown Guardians. Michael Ballantyne, our brand new Lockdown Diamondbacks hosts, is joining us as well. Gary Morgan from Lockdown Pirates, Booney from Lockdown A's,

Eric Heisman from Lockdown Astros, and of course. the man himself, Sully from Lockdown MLB is here. And I'm your host. I am Jeff Carr, one half of Lockdown Reds and the Lockdown MLB channel manager. And my goodness, there were so many trades. And they all happened within like the last 35 seconds of the trade deadlines. So like from 5.59 p.m. Eastern time to 6 p.m. Eastern time, I think every team moved someone, including the Diamondbacks to the Brewers, for literally cash.

And maybe they got a couple of. I don't know. Did maybe the brood. They said there's a spotted cow. Yeah, they sent a spotted cow down to down to Arizona. But we're going to get into everything because we're going to talk about who got the best at this trade deadline.

We're going to talk about who's the most frustrated and everything in between. And it's all brought to you by GameTime. Download the GameTime app today and create an account and use the promo code locked on MLB to save $20 off your first purchase. All right, guys. Who improved the most? I mean, the Padres acquired a whole new team, didn't they? Yeah, I feel.

And they got rid of an entire farm system in the process. So they're better now, but 2028, well, there won't be baseball in 20208, so we won't even worry about that. Yeah, yeah. I'd actually sit here and say that I think my team improved the most with the Yankees. And I would fight you with the Padre one only because the Padres, like you said, made their future significantly worse. They traded away all their top prospects.

The Yankees got seven new players revamped their entire bullpen. their entire left side of their infield. And while doing that, didn't give up a prospect better than their eighth prospect in the system. Like, I don't think you could have had a better deadline than that. You cleared cash in the future. You got guys that are under control for more years. But they think the Yankees also didn't acquire a single player whose contract is expiring after this year. I think they had an unbelievable deadline, to be honest.

And I'm not just saying that as the eighth man. That's a good. I got to agree with Brian because we're, we're, people are always quick to trash Brian Cashman. And I certainly have been one of them over the years. but I and again you cannot declare a winner of the trade deadline the day of the trade deadline because a few years I did locked on and no one was saying in 2021 oh my God the Braves they got Eddie Rosario they got Jacques Peterson they got Jorge Saler they cleaned up they cleaned up but just by quantity the chances of one of those players that the Yankees who desperately need

depth in their bullpen especially since Williams sucks and Weaver has suddenly freaky Friday with Jeff Weaver. That's what you're saying in his name. William sucks. Yeah. That was a guy's name. Yeah. Jeff Weaver, man, that's a throwback. Jeff Reader, yeah, yeah.

Just see it in, Sally, before you go, both of those guys, by the way, Williams and Weaver, both are pending free agents. And the three bolt arms that picked up are all extended through next year. And McMahon has already shown that he is, first of all, he is a, human being who can play third base, which is an upgrade from no human beings who could play third base. And yeah, he strikes out a lot. He's a Yankee.

That's part of the contract. But the fact of the matter is, is he can get a big hit from top of the ball rolls between shortstop and the third base line. It's not an automatic inside the park homer because their third base there. And, you know, at the old timers day, they were talking to Greg Nettles saying, hey, do you have anything left in the tank just for a few months. So I'll trash cashman when need be, but, you know, the chances are he acquired, was it four or five hundred relievers today? And the odds are that a couple of them will pull that Graham Lloyd David Weathers didn't see this coming, you know, depth in their bullpen. And, you know, if you're, if you're going to trash someone,

you've got to be there to give, you got to praise them. They could all be busts and we'll I'll hate Cashman later, but the fact of the matter is he did what he had to do and didn't give up all the big huge honkin prospects who will be the next Monteros and Jabba Chamberlains, you know, the great Yankee legends. What about our friends out in the AOS? Because the best player at the deadline went to Seattle. And then after that happened, Houston was like, hang on a second. Yeah, I was about to say that. I know the Astros did not get 50,000 players like the Yankees did today. but they did go out and get exactly what they needed.

Pitching has not been a big issue for the Astros this year. Bullpen has been one of the best. The Astros, despite having 18 players on IL at one point, they have the third best record in baseball with all the injuries, especially to Jordan Alvarez, Jeremy Pena, Jake Myers, to all these different players, half the rotation, actually more than that. So the Astros have been doing all this with what they had.

The biggest weakness has been the office. offense all year long. And Dana Brown did all this, brought back Carlos Correa. We'll talk about what they did with the twins. I still don't understand it. We'll talk about that in the second segment, but also they upgraded with Hesu Sanchez from the Marlins and then brought in another Maricio DuBahn with Ramon Urius as well. So they upgraded. They added some deaf pieces. And I think this helps them get better because you're Jeremy Penaos coming back. You have Spencer Arigetti, who's about to come back. Then you have Christian Javier almost coming back.

So you have a lot of guys that are about to come back. So this team didn't need to go out and get Dillon-Sise. They tried, but they wanted, the Padres wanted too much for CES. They had to replenish the farm next year. It's true. You know what I did is what was very interesting about this deadline is teams were, you generally get the sense that teams are trying to get things done a little bit in advance sometimes. It seems like they get started maybe a week in advance or so.

That didn't happen here. The teams wound up grading early on, wound up paying higher prices than teams that waited longer. The teams that waited longer paid significantly less for players than teams. And I take it back to not to go after the Mets as the Yankee fan, but the Mets, what they paid for Tyler Rogers out of the Giants was significantly more than what the Yankees paid for Duval. Significantly more. I would debate Duval's the better picture. I don't know if you guys saw that. I don't understand how teams paid so much less the longer they waited.

I'm sorry, Barry. I'll jump in for a second, Brian, because I'm in the Bay Area right now. And I don't know if you're hearing there's some fireworks going on right now. And there's a giant parade because Duval was traded. There was, it actually, there's a big rally going in the city because it's such a, I haven't seen happiness like this since. New Year's Day 2000. They hate, I mean, his main job on the Giants is to blow saves.

So, but, but a change may do him good, as Elton John sang in Get Back Honkington. Well, I'll trust Matt Blake with him, but I'm sorry, anytime I had the ability to get a guy that with a three ERA that throws 147 miles an hour, I'll take him any day. It's actually 147 into the bay is what it is. But anyway, that's fine. It's fine. On paper, that trade looks pretty bad. And I'll say, I was probably one of the highest.

people on Drew Gilbert out of the draft last year. I don't, I think on paper, that's, that's a more of a hot move than it is overall. I mean, Drew Gilbert's going to be fine. I think Blaine Tedwell is going to be a reliever, but those guys were just pieces parts. And the Mets, the Mets really did improve their bullpen. And they did it, they did it while avoiding trading Jonah Tong. They didn't trade Carson Benj.

Their farm system is still intact. They had a farm system that's ready to attack. Like, I, I think the Mets and the Padres are right up there, improving their bullpen with the Yankees. The only thing on the Mets is he didn't go out and get a centerfielder, and they needed one death. Cedric Mullins. I said a center fielder. Um, he, Cedric Mullins has, has playing like a 700 OPS this year. He has not been effective at all. I know he's a name we all know, but he's one of the reasons that the Orioles have been playing so poorly this year. I don't know if that's as big a move as they consider it. Eddie Rosario, Jorge Saler. Yeah. Well, speaking of not as good as you thought they were,

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frustrated is the right word, but my lord, the Minnesota twins have a major league, roster now right brandon debatable it's a ravaged i mean what was it a 10 of 26 so i'm not great at math but that goes down to five of 30 you're over 33 percent and it's it's just a lot of pieces that i don't know how it's going to all fit together i think if you look at each trade individually like they each kind of makes sense to some form or fashion but the overarching theme seems to be the ownership group saying, you know, sticking up basically a big middle finger to the fans. I, again, I think Alan Rodin could be a pretty nice player. I'm looking at a stat line right now in AAA, and he's he's mashed everywhere. He's been with the exception of Toronto this

season. They got some pretty good prospects, six guys in their top 30. And it was a pretty good top two or three to begin with. Then they get number, it was like number four, six. a couple in the teens, a couple in the low 20s. They got some big league help in James Outman, who was a good player when the Dodgers actually gave him a chance. You know, when they signed guys, kind of pushes the fringe guys off to not really get much playing time. So, I mean, in isolation, each of these trades has different aspects of like,

okay, I kind of see the vision. But I think the big middle finger was Louis Varlane to the Blue Jays. It just Minnesota native, four years of control. whatever it was, it just made no sense to me. Yeah. And I'll tell you who the two most frustrated people at the trade deadline are. One is my mother, Dr. E. E.D. Sullivan, who loves her San Francisco Giants and her favorite player is Mike Yistremski because of his connection to growing up in New England.

And she actually sent me an email, not a text, an email with the announcement. And she was not happy. You made Dr. Edy Sullivan unhappy. She said they traded Mikey. She doesn't call him Yaz. She calls him Mikey. And Mikey is now a royal. All right.

I'll tell you the other person who's really mad right now is Louis Severino, who is from Massachusetts Sacramento. And he said, let me get this straight. You trade away Mason Miller, who has, I think, 40 more years of control with the team. You've traded away Miguel Andouhar. You've traded away JPC years. and I'm still catching a check here.

What in the name of Blue Mu-Odom is going on around here? Mama Sully was like, Buster Posey, you just made the list. Oh, yeah, oh, yeah. That's my mom right now. Buster Posi's in my mom's doghouse right now. She's thrilled that DeValle has traded. Oh, my God, my mom, we're actually having a big dinner tonight to celebrate the trade of Duval, but she is not happy.

Booney, what did you think? think of this? I know, I mean, you and I are in good terms. What do you think of this whole, like the Sacramento A's I think they dealt stomper to the twins at one point. They tried to. That was past the deadline.

Yeah, you're starting tomorrow. Listen, Mason Miller is no question. Absolutely electric. But baseball has shown us that its history is absolutely brutal to closers, right? They flash hot and they fade fast.

When you're talking about Mason Miller, take a look at the comps and what he got. Now, you talked a little bit about Camila Duvall. When Camilla DeVall was an all-star with the Giants, he was thought of in the same way, in the same breath as Mason Miller is today. Right. Think about what the A's got back for Miller. They got back comparable to what the nationals got for Juan Soto and for what the White Sox got back for. Chris Sale. If you want to look at

comps and similar aces with team control. That's a great point. I thought they stole high. Here's another interesting stat. In the last 20 years, there has been over 250 closers with over

20 saves. The lifeline of a closer is short. Do I think Mason Miller's awesome? Yes. But it was really frustrating this year when he sat in the bullpen because we couldn't get him the ball because we were always behind. I thought it was a great move for the Padres. They went all in.

They put themselves probably in one of the best bullpins of ball and baseball. Probably the best, without a doubt. So I love the trade and who they got back. But with that being said, it is prospects. And with prospects, they are exactly that. I will say this. And this is Booney, I agree with you. Mark the date and time.

But I agree with you, Booney, that we're messing with Boone. we do of us, we actually agree on more than we disagree. If you take a look at like, like who the best really, who won the like the Rivera Award one year? And you go back five years prior, five years prior. You see who the top five are. It is a rotation. There are very few people that they flame out pretty quickly. So you're right.

And having a great closer for a team that isn't really good this year. Right. It's like, I live in a trailer park, but I have a Maserati right in front of it. It's kind of like, I think there. I actually think the Mason-Miller trade was really, was actually a really good smart deal. I'm just talking from Severito's point of view. Yeah.

You're kidding me? You know what? I thought the Reds really scored with Miguel Andehar. I think Miguel Andehar is really being overlooked. He's a hell of a right-handed bat. And J.P. Sears for the backside of that rotation for the Padres is a good starter as well. Well, I can speak to that too, because those guys are both former Yankees. And J.P. Sears comes over to you guys.

I loved him coming up with the. Yankees and wasn't able to actually make a difference with the Yankee Major League Squad for the most part goes over to you guys in that trade and Dahar is the guy that Yankee fans completely missed out on should have won the 2018 rookie of the year um barely missed out on that one had had the rookie year two where he's got over 50 doubles in the season mcgeline duhar was an incredible player for the Yankees and it's top to your prospect if you remember back the reason why the Yankees didn't get Garrett Cole from the Pittsburgh pirates years ago is because they refused to include Miguel and Dehar in that trade and that might have been one of

the, you know, one of the crazier no trade calls the Yankees made because they probably have a World Series by now if they get coal that year. But I wanted to use that to actually transfer it over to Jeff because one of the teams that actually liked the all-in kind of aspect they had to this deadline was the Reds. Because I think the Reds made a lot more noise than people thought they were going to make. What did you think about? What does the fan base, I guess, think about their deadline? Well, those are two different answers because I kind of liked what the Reds did. Most of the Reds fan base thinks that this was the cheap attempt to show that they can try and that they did not make the right swings and that there were rumors about them

being in on a Eugenio Suarez. There were rumors about them being in on Ramon Luriano and different players that had better statistics and more grabby names. And because they did not get that, Reds fans are very mad. And they're feeling very vindicated because the Braves are currently up 10 to 3 against them on this night. So I am feeling like a dummy because I touted the fact that they got Key Brian Hayes and his gold glove third baseman and he committed a two run error in one of his first plays he makes is a Cincinnati red and so there's a lot of this that it's just like there's there's negativity surrounding how the Reds attacked this trade deadline but I see through it I'm with you on Miguel andyhar I'm with you on um Zach Lattel as well I love the flexibility the Zach Lattel brings to the Red's pitching

staff he's a starter he's a reliever he moves Nick Martinez to the bullpen albeit Nick Martinez now becomes like the most expensive relief pitcher in the in the league because he accepted the qualifying offer and is making $21 million this year. But there's still a lot of solid moves here. And I think that they added probably two or three wins to what I thought was an 84 win team. So they've really got a shot to sneak on into that last wild card spot if they can make things right. But that's where it's so funny to me, because when you're a small market ball club and you

and you're used to how a small market ball club operates, you see these deadlines and you think, man, you're right there. Make a big swing. And so when you don't, when your team doesn't, the fan base reacts poorly to it. And that's kind of what we're seeing right now in Cincinnati. It's strange to me. And I'm going to continue to get vitriol based on the fact that they're losing

by a touchdown to the Braves tonight. But I've, yeah, and more than, you know, touchdown. They need a two points conversion. They went for two. They went for two. So, yeah, it's not looking great tonight. But I think in the long run, these moves are going to pay off very nice.

Not all. I agree to you. I loved it. They did. Gary. Gary. Ryan Hayes long hair, bro. I was going to say, Gary, Pirate fans hate me.

The A's fans hated me last week, but this week it's pirate fans who hated me because I got on them for dealing Hayes because not because I think Hayes is even as good as Charlie Hayes, but I'm saying, why there's, it's been 10 years and we're still rebuilding what's the plan here? That was basically the premise of what I was saying. What's the, what is the pulse for the lone team that has not made it to the championship series, as Jeff Carr is telling us, it's time to hear from our sponsors. And we'll get Gary's answer on the other side of this. Today's episode is brought to you by Game Day Hugh. And so was this hat that I'm wearing. For Reds fans like myself, this one hits the mark. Game Day Hugh makes clean. No logo

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Is he a lame duck? Is he not? What is their plan? They came out and formally told us 2026, so I have absolutely no way to go, except for to grade them on a curve with this trade deadline. They said they were trying to get better in 2026, and absolutely nothing they did will do any such thing.

The trade that the best player they got, I think, is who we got from the Yankees, their number eight prospect, catcher. So far probably won't be by the time he gets here from everything I've seen. Flores, I'm thinking we're looking at a guy who's maybe going to be a DH on a team that's never going to have an opening at DH until they let Andrew McCutcher to retire. We are frustrated. I thought Brandon was going to be the most angry one here. Derek Shelton did a nice job on his trade deadline coverage on the Sirius XM app though today.

He was talking with CJ Nikkowski, and he did a really nice job. So I obviously have some experience with him. He was the twins bench coach when I used to cover games under Rockabald Daly. But he might have a future in this media thing. I can tell you this on Perez. Everyone seemed to like him. The problem is the Yankees had so much depth when it comes to catcher in their farm system. And the only bad news I can give you, Gary,

is the fact that Yankees catchers in their farm system tend to get fairly overrated because they have so many. and people think they're going to be so great, and then they come up and they're Austin Wells, who is really highly touted, but is hitting 218. So it's one of those things that, you know, I don't want to burst your bubble,

and I think it was a lot that you could get for what you gave up, but I don't know if I can't sit here and tell you that their catching process is going to be great because they've got six other guys that are supposed to be major league talent. I've refreshed that you wouldn't come on here and lie to me, Brian, because I know better. But I really appreciate those words. and the kindness.

I honestly want to tell you, I think you're getting David Bednar at the best he's looked since 2023. I mean, this is arguably the most dominant version of David Bednar I can remember. I'm so happy. Well in 2023,

he is unhittable right now. He's my favorite addition the Yankees made mainly because he's a husky fellow who throws 100 miles an hour and drinks beer all day. Like, I could you not love a guy like that? This is David. Welles as a reliever. I absolutely love it.

David Wells average like, what, 80s fastball back in the day? And show up to the ballpark with a couple beers already in the tank. Yeah, and Ben-Nor throws about 107. Legit that we are confused. They kept rentals. They didn't trade all their rentals. Like, we still have Tommy Fam, who has been one of the hotter hitters in baseball the last month. I can't imagine somebody that you want to give a bag of balls for it.

You know, so it was unbelievable. we still had them and everything they else they did look like we're trying to shed salary. So to hold on to Reynolds when you're trying to shed salary doesn't make a lot of sense. And again, when Sherrington say he didn't think that they needed to make any moves? Like they felt like they didn't have to make a trade. And it's like, what are you talking about, dude?

Yeah, man. I'm trying to keep track of the lies, but it's difficult. I do chronicle them daily on this show I got on this network. but it's tough man like we we honestly got i think honestly we just don't know the direction we're rowing we've been told 2026 nothing they did addresses 2026 the closest thing they have to it is cam devaney who they traded adam prazier for two weeks ago he's 29 years old and hasn't debuted yet okay yeah you're blocked by bobby whit but you're blocked for other reasons if you're 29

Brandon, do you guys need a hug, man? Can we bring it in? Gary and Brandon. Booney get in there too, man. Michael, get in there too. Michael, get in there too. Michael, because your team's handing players off to Milwaukee right now. Yeah, Michael, can we get your opinion on that too? Because I don't, Milwaukee thing is one thing.

And then Swaraz, it kind of gets dealt because he had to get dealt. Right? It just felt like everyone was talking about Suarez getting dealt. So they just signed back, said, yeah, you know what? I guess we have to. So they just traded him away, too. So what's your take on all this? Well, first of all, how's the mic doing?

Is it better now or not? You sound good. Okay, fantastic. I was just kind of hanging out over here because I'm the new guy, right? I've been doing this for a week. So I'm letting all the rest of you guys talk, and I certainly appreciate it. You do a great job. I think that the Arizona Diamondbacks did exactly what they had to do.

They traded away a bunch of rental pieces, right? They traded the way Naylor and Bridget and Kelly and Miller and Gino Suarez. And they got nine, nine prospects back for them. six of them are starting pitchers and are either AAA or already had their debut in the major leagues. So six of the nine prospects are close, unlike Pittsburgh. Sorry, Gary. And so they also were fiscally able to do that. And they were doing it smart as far as a business wise goes because they just saved $18 million on all of the trades that they made.

The main one being the one that everybody wants to knock right now, which is we gave Jordan Montgomery and Shelby Miller to the Brewers and had them pay the majority of that salary. So they paid $3 million of that salary, by the way. And then we get a player to be named later on top of it. So they saved a lot of money. They traded to people that they were going to expire anyway, and they weren't going to get anything for. And the last thing I want to say is this, and I'll let you guys kind of go from there. They did keep Zach Gowan. And a lot of people are like, why did you keep Zach Gowan for? Well, they can do a qualifying offer for Zach Gowan. And then once he either rejects it or takes it, but wouldn't you, if you're Zach Gowan, you've got a 6.66 ERA,

wouldn't you sign and take that qualifying offer and try to get yourself a comeback year and then get another contract later on four or five years for big money? So I honestly think the Diamondbacks did everything right. It's just sad because we're not going to make the playoffs and we know it going in. Can I say that's a very mature response from a fan base who just kind of like from a team that just kind of like waved the white flag on the season. That's a very. He's new.

He's new. He doesn't know. you're supposed to be irrational and scream and everything like that. He hasn't been beaten up yet. He's 100% right. He's 100% right. Yeah, the dimebacks are what they're supposed to do. Before we get out of here, Jeff,

can we just address this? What on earth were the Cubs and Tigers doing? They're having fantastic years. The Cubs must have, like, lost cell phone service. The Tigers got a shell of Charlie Morton, and they traded for Calphaginian. They're like, kind of thing, it's fine. But like, the Tigers, dude,

you're having one of the best year you had. since peak Miguel Cabrear time. And the Cubs have a great farm system. They didn't want to trade a guy who's essentially a DH in Moises Belichros. And you got Willie Castro and Mike Soroka? Like, come on, especially for the Cubs. Okay, their GM is an ex-Guardians front office guy. Derek Falvey and who is the GM?

I can't remember the GM's name for the Cubs. But they're making the guardians look bad. Like, come on, guys. What were they doing today? The Red So the Red Sox, too, are in on this. So the Red Sox got Dustin May and Stephen Matt's like, come on, guys. What is happening here? Yeah, I kind of feel like our friend Sam, Matt, Gabby, and Scott kind of stayed off because they're like just still seething because of what their teams did at this deadline.

I mean, the Cubs are a short winning streak away from possibly being the best team in baseball. you have the tigers who have been at one point the best record in baseball. And then you have the Red Sox that it feels like they're on the cusp of making the American League wild card. Because currently right now, if we all banded together and made a team, we probably can make that final wild card spot. I think that there is so much missing from these teams. And oh, by the way, none of them are small market. Like none of those teams are small market teams. They are all.

You know what's crazy too? Jeff is all these, all these teams. teams saw teams that they're chasing or in their division right behind them make moves. So you'd think that when the Cubs see the Brewers make moves, when the Red Sox see the Yankees and the Blue Jays make moves, you think that would inspire those teams to, let's get on the move here. Let's do something because we got to say it on Pat. To just sit, you kind of, Eric, I see you nodding your head.

As soon as the Astro started doing stuff, the Rangers picked up their tail and we're like, oh, the Astros responded to the Mariners too. Yeah, exactly. So you see this happening across the league. and I don't understand, you saw it the night before with the Phillies and the Mets tag teaming on different bullpen pieces. I don't understand how when teams in your division do stuff,

how you just sit pat and go, you know what, no, we're fine. Everyone else got better and we're behind them, we're good. The Angels even were buying, which I don't think they should be, but like, they are the perpetual buyers. They just, they always, they always buy you. No one can explain that one. Apparently they have angels in the outfield right now. Yes, that's, they think that Danny Glover is managing the ball club right now.

And I think that that might work out for them and probably won't. But the last thing that I will say, the one team that I kind of want to, I'm interested to see what Kevin and Ulysses really have to say about this because I do not know what the Tampa Bay raise did. But for some reason, I have this feeling that they will have been the smartest team at this deadline because they just get trades right and they don't lose those trades. As much as it was, we're going to trade with the Reds and we're going to throw one of our prospects over here to the Dodgers and we're going to.

bring in some more prospects from them. And then we're going to bring in Griffin Jacks. And it's like, wait a minute, are you sellers? Are you buyers? They're the race. And that's who they are. They're annoying. They are in their own category at the deadline.

I like that approach when you are not like a hardcore contender. I like that approach that you can buy long term. Like the Cubs did it last year. They got Isaac Peretti's. The Cubs had a better trade deadline last year when they weren't in it. They did this year because they flipped. Isaac Peretti's into Kyle Tucker. Like, yeah.

Can we do a poll of who the big winners are? Because I'm actually curious to see what everyone thinks. Not October. It's not October. We don't know yet. But you don't know yet, but you know, but you know how you feel based on what teams gave up and what teams got. Like there are, there are feelers out there of who won and who lost. When we know who lost the wins.

The Yankees won in 2002 because they picked up Jeff Weaver and the Red Sox won 2007 because they got Eric Gogh. So sometimes these things work out well. If I was to rank it, I would say Mariners, Astros, and Yankees. One, two, three. Nobody mentioned the Blue Jays, but they did some pretty good things. They're the best team in the AL record-wise, getting Bieber. If he's even closer to what we're looking for,

and they can exercise the option on him. And then Louis Barland. It's a mutual option. Well, it's a mutual. Okay. Well, I'm here to tell you, Louis Barland is fantastic. They're going to love having him. And Sir Anthony Dominguez, I mean, they needed help in the bullpen.

Jeff Hoffman has been an enigma. I thought they did a pretty good job of fixing the few woes they had. You'd like to see better starting pitching from them, but I think they have the guys to get that done. And then Bieber in that mix too. I like what Toronto did. It wasn't flashy, but I think it could be very beneficial.

I got to run. I got a run. I got to run. Take care, everybody. And I think the senators won. And that, on that bombshell, it's time to end. Thanks so much for checking out this lockdown MAB squad show. Appreciate everybody for joining in.

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