It\u2019s not unusual for a team to both buy and sell at the trade deadline, but it is a bit unusual to see a team both buy and sell, at the same position, within a matter of minutes. But the Tampa Bay Rays seem to be doing just that.<\/p>\n
The Rays are sending catcher Danny Jansen to the Milwaukee Brewers, selling a player they signed this offseason whose contract has a mutual option for next year. Jansen is likely a rental for the Brewers.<\/p>\n
But the Rays aren\u2019t finished. Ken Rosenthal reports that they are also in talks to acquire Miami Marlins catcher Nick Fortes, a 28-year-old with three years or arbitration eligibility remaining. Fortes has been a well below average hitter, but he\u2019s graded well this season in framing and blocking.<\/p>\n
Assuming the Fortes deal is completed, the Rays could be cashing in on a short-term asset, while replacing him with a lesser option \u2014 less offense, anyway \u2014 who comes with more years of team control.<\/p>\n
What a very Rays thing to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not unusual for a team to both buy and sell at the trade deadline, but it is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-44077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}