{"id":881869,"date":"2026-09-03T12:24:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T12:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/881869\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T12:24:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T12:24:25","slug":"10-strong-opinions-on-the-2026-mlb-trade-deadline-1-month-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/881869\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Strong Opinions on the 2026 MLB Trade Deadline, 1 Month Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The Blue Jays were 52-60 on Aug. 2, which put them ninth in the AL wild-card standings, but only 4.5 games out of a playoff spot due to the ugly nature of the No. 3 wild-card candidate pool. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Rather than fully waving the white flag, they did some short-term selling by moving impending free agents Kevin Gausman and Daulton Varsho while also landing controllable major league pieces Jos\u00e9 Soriano and Spencer Arrighetti to replenish the rotation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">After going 17-11 in August, the Blue Jays are still right in the thick of the playoff race at just 2.5 games behind the Guardians for the No. 3 wild-card spot. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Soriano (5 GS, 4.13 ERA, 28.1 IP) has slotted nicely into Gausman&#8217;s spot in the rotation, while Brett Bateman (92 PA, .317\/.367\/.390) has taken over as the everyday center fielder and leadoff hitter after he was acquired from the Cubs in the Gausman deal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The decision to thread the needle between buying and selling might just end in an improved 2027 outlook and a trip to the 2026 postseason. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blue Jays were 52-60 on Aug. 2, which put them ninth in the AL wild-card standings, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":881870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-881869","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\/881869","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=881869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}