{"id":747516,"date":"2026-06-19T21:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T21:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/747516\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T21:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T21:41:11","slug":"big-and-small-market-mlb-sellers-that-can-own-the-trade-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/747516\/","title":{"rendered":"Big and Small Market MLB Sellers That Can Own the Trade Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Don&#8217;t get too excited by the name-drops for Alvarez and Pe\u00f1a. Both would make a mushroom cloud if they actually landed on the market, but Houston GM Dana Brown <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/astros\/article\/houston-dana-brown-trade-deadline-selling-22296835.php?\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">went out of his way<\/a> to push back on any such talk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Walker and Hader feel a bit more realistic, if only because the Astros might not get a better chance to ditch their contracts. Walker has his slugging stick (18 HR, 122 OPS+) back after a down 2025, while Hader has mostly looked like himself (1.29 ERA, 11.0 K\/BB) since returning from a biceps strain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">At this point in the year, Paredes should have 10-15 home runs left in him. Maybe more if he goes to a park with a favorable left field fence, though it&#8217;s obviously hard to beat Daikin Park in that respect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">As for those relievers, each is a mid-level talent except for maybe Abreu. He has a beastly 6.66 ERA, but there&#8217;s still good stuff hiding underneath hideous walk and home run rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t get too excited by the name-drops for Alvarez and Pe\u00f1a. Both would make a mushroom cloud if&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-747516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}