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Chat with MLBTR's Steve Adams: 7/15/25
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Philly A’s
2:14
Do you see any of this year’s draft picks making it to a bullpen this year?
Steve Adams
2:14
Gage Wood joining the Phillies in September seems feasible.
Suarez
2:14
If he isn't moved, can he get a QO?
Steve Adams
2:14
He can and wil
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Guest
2:15
By telegraphing his extreme need for a left fielder, isn’t Preller harming his bargaining position?
Steve Adams
2:16
Anyone who watched the Padres sign Connor Joe and Jason Heyward this winter and then saw their LFs produce a combined .221/.282/.322 slash through the All-Star break would know they badly want a left fielder whether Preller stayed silent or whether he took out nationwide billboards proclaiming that he's interested in any and all left fielders.
Tom Kelly's blues
2:17
Is a 56 win 52 loss record on 7/31 good enough for the Twins to buy?
Steve Adams
2:18
Yeah. I imagine that'd probably give them a share of the Wild Card in the AL or put them within 1-2 games. I doubt they even need to be quite that far over .500.

That said, the Twins are up for sale and had major payroll concerns over the winter. I don't know that they're going to have the resources to make any significant adds, and even if they did, this front office tends to be pretty conservative on the buy side of things.
Jerry Dipoto
2:18
Over/under 1.5 trades for me this deadline?
Steve Adams
2:18
Over
Baines3
2:19
Best guess-Luis Robert to…
Steve Adams
2:20
Giants or Reds, with White Sox eating most of the remaining guarantee. (Total guess -- I just picked two plausible buyers who rank near the bottom of the league in terms of offense versus left-handed pitching, since that's one thing Robert is still doing well)
Norbert
2:20
Do the Angels trade Trout?
Steve Adams
2:20
No
Darthyen
2:20
Doesn't Lourdes Gurriel Jr. make the most sense for what the Blue Jays need (not including pitching) He won't cost much in prospect return mostly money (depending how much money, if any, Ariizona sends in the deal), he fills the RH left field bat with power and even play some passable first base. Bringing in Gurriel, with everyone healthy, will push Barger to third 80-90% of the time, Clemment to utility role, Lucas to some platoon/bench role and the rest to the minors
Steve Adams
2:23
He's a league-average bat who's owed $18MM beyond the current season ($14MM 2026 salary, $4MM buyout on a 2027 option).

There are better and/or more affordable LF options. Not sure I'd call Gurriel a RH bat "with power," either. He has average power, I suppose, although that's playing at a stadium that's very beneficial to right-handed hitters. (Rogers Centre is as well, but a bit less so)
John
2:25
Would Harry Ford net the M's Willi Castro and Griffin Jax (assuming Twins are sellers)?
Steve Adams
2:25
Have to imagine the Twins would do that even if they weren't intent on selling.
GM Joe
2:25
Last year I believe there was no top 100 prospect traded.  Does this trend continue???
Steve Adams
2:27
Depends how you view "top-100 prospects." Thayron Liranzo was a 50-FV guy at the time and wound up pretty quickly landing on Top 100 lists post-draft. Agustin Ramirez was a top-100 guy, or close to it. Jake Bloss had crept onto the back end of BA's Top 100 at some point.

People get overly hung up on numerical rankings of prospects when the gap between someone ranked, say, 60th in the game and someone ranked 115th is pretty negligible.
2:28
Also, for what it's worth, multiple Phillies beat writers saying Dombrowski is going to be more aggressive in his search for bullpen arms and target the Emmanuel Clase types of the world certainly suggests the Phils will be willing to splash some prospects around.
2:32
Ok, I’ve got to wrap this up. I’m on X @Adams_Steve and Bluesky @adams-steve.bsky.social if you have more questions.

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