RELIEVERS: Reading the tea leaves on July trades
Jun 30 2015
Today, we are looking at some potential buyers/sellers with a month before the trade deadline. Let's start with some potential teams that may be looking to upgrade the bullpen to steal a couple incremental wins.
Toronto is currently using 19-year old Roberto Osuna (RHP, TOR) as the closer for a team that is one game back in the AL East and primed with the most prolific offense in all of baseball:
TOR Sv IP xERA LI xERA' LI' ================= == ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== Osuna 2 35.7 3.25 1.56 2.96 2.00 Cecil (L) 4 23.7 3.32 1.02 4.47 1.21 Delabar 0 19.7 3.28 1.00 3.32 1.18 Loup (L) 4 29.0 2.66 1.09 1.74 1.55 Hendriks 0 33.7 2.77 0.89...
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