Posts tagged ‘Trade Deadline’

It is that time of year again. The time that every baseball fan knows more than the team owners and the beloved general manager. Every at-home wizard of baseball knowledge already has made more than enough trades in their heads to get their team into the playoffs. Maybe you have too, but is your trade feasible and will it work for both teams?

The July 31st trading deadline comes at an opportune time for teams to make a final push for a spot in the postseason (or for some to get young talent and offload some big salary obligations). It’s an opportune time for the teams getting young talent to improve without ponying up the big bucks for signing upcoming free agents on their team.

Other than baseball’s deadline the big day (or month) for teams is the draft. Well, baseball’s draft is almost impossible to predict the outcome of until a player has three years in the minors and you don’t see him until his fourth year with the club, and that is if he is only good. Impact players are almost always drafted, but since the jury is out for such a long time the baseball world focuses on this month’s trading deadline. Luckily a trade shows big (or small) results usually very quickly.

So with this in mind it is fans like you (and fans like us) that hold the last day in July as so important compared to our playoff chances. Come and join us Sunday to talk about the possibilities of a good deadline or just another wasted deadline for the Braves in particular.