 By: Chris Larson
Over the course of next four-and-a-half weeks, we'll be creating action plans for select teams around the league. Many of the action plans that will be done will be for teams that have a lot of trade chips to sell off or teams that look like they'll be heavy buyers.  By: Chris Larson
Every year at the July 31st Trade Deadlines, every contending team or team that is close to contention, goes wild and on a rampage looking for as much bullpen depth as possible. Over the past couple of postseasons, the bullpen has become more important than ever and teams are beginning to realize that it is absolutely to have plenty of bullpen depth when the playoffs roll around.  By: Chris Larson
Every year at the July 31st Trade Deadline, there are always plenty of teams looking for pitching help, especially starting rotation help, to not only give them depth for down the stretch but to allow them to have additional options to turn to once the calendar turns to October. Over the past couple of years, there have been some big names that have been traded among starting pitchers, prior to the July 31st Trade Deadline, including: Jose Quintana, Cole Hamels, Chris Archer, and Lance Lynn to name a few.  By: Chris Larson
Moving along in our Trade Deadline Preview, it's time to begin focusing on individual players who could be traded over the next 6 weeks. Every year at the Trade Deadline, a lot of the focus surrounds around both starting pitchers and relievers that could make a contending team take that next step forward, but the offensive players deserve just as much attention.  By: Chris Larson
Relief pitchers have become extremely valuable over the past couple of years and with that has come the trend of teams building their pitching staff from the back to the front, while relying on their bullpen more than ever. The current statistical trends over the past few seasons help to back up that claim as does the evidence about how many innings every teams starting pitching has logged to this point. |
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