While there's no official date on the baseball calendar, it's widely accepted that the conclusion of MLB's first-year player draft signals the unofficial start of trade season in baseball. Teams shift their focus from the amateurs to the professionals, looking for the piece (or pieces) that will propel them to success.
"Now people start to look at that, but there's still so much ambiguity as far as who's in and who's out (of contention)," Houston general manager Jeff Luhnow told the Houston Chronicle's Evan Drellich. "Some of that needs to settle. We've been preparing all season, but I think it'll intensify over the coming weeks."
It's a pitching-heavy edition of our weekly attempt at playing general manager, with a focus on the Cincinnati Reds, a team with (potentially) three of the biggest trade chips to play in the coming weeks, including a Cy Young Award contender and one of the most electrifying relievers in the game.
It's important to remember that the teams we'd classify as buyers won't be the only clubs in the running to acquire a given player's services, so the packages proposed are not only geared toward being fair to both sides, but to ensure that the seller takes a buyer's offer over the competition's.
Additionally, keep in mind that these proposed deals are only ideas and pure speculation. Unless otherwise noted, there's no indication that any of them have actually been discussed.
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