It\u2019s been a whirlwind of a season, and the trade deadline comes at 6:00 PM ET on Monday.<\/p>\n
The Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> are expected to be sellers, entering Monday\u2019s series against the Houston Astros with a 52-60 record. Less than a year after falling shy of the World Series, they\u2019ve already traded their long-time ace<\/a>, Kevin Gausman. In fact, it was one of two separate trades the Blue Jays made with the Chicago Cubs on Sunday, also acquiring Jameson Taillon during Sunday\u2019s series finale.<\/p>\n Expect them to be busy on Monday. Gausman was one of a handful of players on expiring deals. Daulton Varsho and Shane Bieber are likely to be traded, while George Springer and Max Scherzer are also candidates to be moved. Both players have trade protection, Scherzer a full no-move clause, and Springer his 10-5 rights.<\/p>\n Other players who have been in trade rumours in recent weeks are Jeff Hoffman and Tyler Rogers, with the former\u2019s contract expiring after the 2027 season.<\/p>\n The Blue Jays may take a buyer\u00a0and\u00a0seller approach, meaning they sell off the players on expiring contracts, but trade prospects for players with team control. Jos\u00e9 Soriano, Reid Detmers, and Nick Lodolo are potential candidates. This would give them a head start on improving the team for the 2027 season and beyond, because they undoubtedly would like to contend if there\u2019s a 2027 season.<\/p>\n While the Blue Jays have only made one major trade, there\u2019s been a few more noteworthy trades across Major League Baseball. The biggest of which saw the Los Angeles Dodgers send prospects to the Detroit Tigers for back-to-back American League Cy Young winner, Tarik Skubal.<\/p>\n The Blue Jays\u2019 American League East rivals have been busy and will continue to be busy. On Sunday, the New York Yankees acquired Luis Garc\u00eda Jr. from the Washington Nationals. The Tampa Bay Rays also acquired Freddy Peralta from the New York Mets.<\/p>\n Buckle up, it\u2019s going to be a busy day across Major League Baseball!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a whirlwind of a season, and the trade deadline comes at 6:00 PM ET on Monday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-844153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}