Seattle coming in 7-31 thru 8-2.

[PhantomWarrior]

Mantis to the desert

If JD goes all in, I'm sure we will see Adam again at waiver call.

 

[PhantomWarrior]

Scott, 25, had a 2.34 ERA with a strong 9.2 K/9 but a too-high 5.1 BB/9 in 61 2/3 innings of relief this season at Double-A Biloxi. He was a fifth-round pick of the Cubs in 2011, but Chicago released him last year, then signed a minor-league deal with the Brewers after a brief stint in independent ball. He did not rank in MLB.com’s list of the Brewers’ top 30 prospects.

 

[True Rangers Fan]

The Lucroy/Jeffress deal looks to go down as a pretty large blemish on JD's record. Good move at the time, but over the long haul.... yeesh.

 

[Bmurph]

Evan screwing me up too

 

[DT LUNA]

Evan screwing me up too

He can screw up a wet dream

 

[True Rangers Fan]

He can screw up a wet dream

Well there's an image I could have done without

 

[DT LUNA]

Hour and a half to go. Get busy JD.

 

[saddles]

Where are we discussing the Lucroy trade? Because I'm ticked about it. We got him and Jefress (spare) for Brinson, and now we get back a PTBNL?



JD needs to smash a homerun today or the patience with him is going to be very thin. Can't live on the Tex deal forever.

I agree, but to be fair the Cliff Lee trade, the Hamilton trade and the Beltre signing are feathers in his cap since the Tex trade. Throw in the first Napoli acquisition as well. I do agree that he hasn't had much work out for him since the WS years though. His reputation does need a very good last hour though.

 

[saddles]

Hindsight makes everyone an expert. It looked like a great trade at the time. Nobody knew both would shit the bed this year. Nobody expected it.

Nobody may have known Lucroy would have such a bad start to this season. That much is true. I didn't like the trade when it happened even though I had no idea how they would play for us. Brinson was someone to hold onto. Trading him was a mistake.

 

[saddles]

Of course no one knew they would both be so bad. still pisses me off though. This ranks right up there with the Dempster trade now.

Reminds me of the Harold Baines fiasco.

 

[True Rangers Fan]

The Sonny Gray domino has fallen.

 

[saddles]

Anyone remind me what PTBNL is all about? That's someone who isn't in the majors and now won't be until he is sent to us, right? So why can't they name him now? Is it rules against trading a minor leaguer?

It could be as simple as clearing out a roster spot. It could also be a case where we can choose between 2 players like when we chose Joaquin Arias over Robinson Cano.

 

[PhantomWarrior]

Hitzges was speculating that the PTBNL for Lucroy has already been determined, but can't be announced.

Some of ya may know this, but according to Norm, "if the trade includes a player/players which were just drafted then it can't be announced until after the WS."

Minor league SS/3rd baseman drafted in the 2nd round (48th pick) - Ryan Vilade, and/or the sandwich pick Tommy Doyle (pitcher) from U of VA (70th pick).

If we got 2 guys drafted this high for Lucroy then job well done.

Nobody may have known Lucroy would have such a bad start to this season. That much is true. I didn't like the trade when it happened even though I had no idea how they would play for us. Brinson was someone to hold onto. Trading him was a mistake.

Lucroy and Dyson always have WBC to look back at this year....

 

[fordman84]

So would anyone else be upset if JD kept Yu if LAD won't part with one of their top 2? I wouldn't. I'm now at the point of telling them to fuck off.

 

[saddles]

So would anyone else be upset if JD kept Yu if LAD won't part with one of their top 2? I wouldn't. I'm now at the point of telling them to fuck off.

I will not be happy if he can't find a good return for Yu, but not necessarily because he couldn't work out something with the Dodgers. We still have a few minutes to go though.

 

[fordman84]

I will not be happy if he can't find a good return for Yu, but not necessarily because he couldn't work out something with the Dodgers. We still have a few minutes to go though.

Yeah 42 minutes still. But if LAD won't give up a top guy for a top pitcher, then screw them.

 

[saddles]

It is hard to think that we are going ot be able to trade all of our free agents. Between Yu, Cashner, and Gomez it would be hard to imagine them having time to work out a trade for all of them especially since we have heard no real rumors about them other than Yu.

 

[Bmurph]

It has gone down to the wire before, 34 mins left now

 

[Bmurph]

Yu Darvish Trade Rumors: Deadline Day

By Steve Adams | July 31, 2017 at 2:33pm CDT

It’s quite possible that today is Yu Darvish’s last day as a member of the Rangers organization. The Texas ace has drawn interest from several teams, with the Dodgers the most prominently linked club. However, Darvish has also been tied to the Yankees and the Indians to varying extents. The Astros are also said to have checked in, though the intra-division roadblock makes that notion a bit tougher. We’ll track all of the latest Darvish chatter in this post between now and the 4pm ET non-waiver trade deadline…

• At this point, it seems that Darvish will either go to the Dodgers or stay put, per Bob Nightengale of USA Today (via Twitter). Given other indications that Los Angeles is focused elsewhere, it could be that the righty won’t end up changing hands today.
• Yahoo’s Jeff Passan reports (via Twitter) that it’s “getting increasingly harder” to envision Darvish landing with the Dodgers, as the two sides “simply aren’t matching up.”

Earlier Updates

• Bowden suggests that the Dodgers could look to pry lefty Alex Claudio away from the Rangers in a package deal alongside Darvish (Twitter link). Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News suggests the same, though he notes that it’d still require the Dodgers changing their stance on the inclusion of Verdugo or Buehler. Claudio, though, is just 25 years old and is controlled through 2021, so he’d be a nice long-term piece for L.A. He’s held lefties to a laughable .131/.169/.197 slash this year and has a masterful 70.5 percent ground-ball rate overall in 2017. However, he doesn’t miss many bats.
• Yahoo’s Tim Brown tweets that the Indians “are not in on Darvish” at this time. Notably, Cleveland was reported by Hoynes to be in pursuit of Orioles closer Zach Britton.
• ESPN’s Jerry Crasnick, however, hears that the Indians and Astros are both “hanging around” in the Darvish picture, but the Dodgers are Texas’ preferred trading partner (Twitter link). The Yankees’ interest in Darvish is dependent on the outcome of their talks for Sonny Gray, Crasnick adds.
• Bowden tweets that the Astros, Indians and Dodgers are the three teams that are still in the mix for Darvish, and he again mentions Mejia’s name in connection to talks. Paul Hoynes of the Cleveland Plain Dealer tweets that the Indians are interested in Darvish only if the price tag drops.
• While the Dodgers have generally regarded as the favorites for Darvish, their talks with the Rangers have essentially reached an impasse, tweets FanRag’s Jon Heyman. Los Angeles has reportedly been unwilling to part with the likes of top-ranked prospects Alex Verdugo, Walker Buehler and Yadier Alvarez for a half-season rental of Darvish, and it would seem that president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman has yet to budge in that regard.
• The Rangers and Indians have spoken about a “Yu Darvish for Francisco Mejia type” of deal, tweets Jim Bowden of MLB Network Radio on SiriusXM. Including Mejia, the consensus top catching prospect in baseball, would be a steep price for Cleveland to pay for a rental, though the wording of the report leaves some wiggle room for other pieces to potentially be involved. The 21-year-old Mejia is hitting .317/.367/.520 with 10 homers through his first 279 plate appearances in Double-A and ranked as baseball’s sixth-best prospect on Keith Law’s midseason list. MLB.com pegged him 16th overall, while Baseball America had him 18th. Cleveland is on Darvish’s no-trade list, though it remains possible that he could waive that right for a clearer shot at the postseason.

 

[True Rangers Fan]

Kinda seems like the Dodgers have held and continue to hold the leverage regarding a Darvish trade.