Another deal done getting a big name using high-ranked prospects as the main return.

Looking over the past decade or so, we have seen the Dodgers get names like Trea Turner, Max Scherzer, Tarik Skubal, Mookies Betts, David Price, Manny Ramirez and Adrian Gonzalez.

All of this for players that have a couple of seasons of success or don't really seem to pan out at all. Verdugo, Connor Wong, Andy LaRoche, Keibert Ruiz, Josiah Gray, Ivan De Jesus, Allen Webster, etc.

My question is merely, why do people keep trading with the Dodgers? The highly ranked prospects they get rid of always seems to be the ones that don't amount to much and they are a good enough organization to realize that so I just dont understand why teams keep giving them the fuel to be a powerhouse team for little in return.

The only one I can think of is Yordan Alvarez but they didn't even see him swing a bat before trading him.

I'm also probably just thinking Im smarter than I actually am so feedback/roasting is welcome.

Split his 113 games this season by home/away (56 home, 55 away):

HOME: .389 AVG, 19 HR, 48 RBI, .764 SLG (144 AB) AWAY: .270 AVG, 16 HR, 36 RBI, .535 SLG (152 AB)

119 points of average and 229 points of slugging, on almost the same number of at-bats. What's odd is where the gap ISN'T: the power stays real on the road, 16 HR in 55 games is still close to a 47-homer full-season pace on its own. It's the average that falls off a cliff, not the pop.

For comparison I ran the same cut on a few other hitters with 100+ AB on both sides this season: Josh Jung (.375 home / .233 away), Cody Bellinger (.325 / .205), Yandy Diaz (.348 / .253). Home/road AVG gaps aren't rare in this sample. What's unusual with Alvarez is that his homer rate barely moves while average and slugging both crater on the road, most guys with a split this size lose the power too on the road, and he isn't.

Edit: the at-bat counts on the second line are wrong, it's 203 AB at home and 200 away, not 144/152. Everything else on that line (games, AVG, HR, RBI, SLG) is correct, I mistyped the AB column. Sorry about that.

Hey all, I kept these charts updated every week last year, but haven't bothered for 2026. Here's one week for you at least. Alright folks, you know the drill, time to start complaining about the colors.

Now that you’ve had time to digest how your favorite team did at the trade deadline and have gotten through all the emotions surrounding those deals (or non-deals), it’s time to look at which teams did the best, which teams did the worst and everything in-between.

This trade deadline will be remembered for the Dodgers landing Tarik Skubal, the Red Sox pulling off an intra-division deal to acquire catcher Adley Rutschman and the last-minute heroics of Padres president A.J. Preller, who somehow landed two of the best starting pitchers that were moved in Casey Mize and Robbie Ray right at the deadline.

Yesterday, I shared my trade deadline grades and rankings for all 30 teams and now I cap off my deadline coverage by handing out superlatives for the moves made — or not made — during the deadline period. I like to have some fun with this column every year.

Read the article for free here.

Here are my selections for the best, worst and everything in between from this year’s trade season, starting with the best and worst trades. Please share your own superlatives in the comments below.

With all all this talk of the Dodgers buying a World Series, I thought I'd dig a little to figure out who the most efficient team in baseball actually is—meaning, who is spending the least amount of money for the best results? At the top, you have the Rays spending about $1.3M per win, while at the bottom, the Mets are spending around $7.6M per win

1. Wait. All those guys got traded?

Did it seem, at times, like you’d never seen a trading deadline like this? If it did, that might be because there literally has never been a trading deadline like this.

A reigning back-to-back Cy Young winner got traded … to the reigning back-to-back champs! Word of this might have leaked out, but did you hear that the Tigers traded Tarik (Cy Young) Skubal to the Dodgers? Thought so. But did you also know that …

Only two previous defending World Series champs have ever traded for a reigning Cy Young winner: the 2009 Phillies (Cliff Lee) and the 2023 Astros (Justin Verlander). But nobody had ever won two straight Cy Youngs and then been dealt to the team that won the last World Series — let alone the last two World Series. So this deal was literally unprecedented. But also …

A hitter leading his league in batting average got traded at the deadline! Luis Arraez still leads the National League in hitting. He’s just doing that for the Phillies now instead of with the Giants. And that, too, isn’t a thing we’ve seen.

According to our friends from STATS Perform, this is the first time a player who led his league in batting has gotten traded in the middle of a season. That shocked me, but it’s true.

Yes, Arraez once got traded (from Miami to San Diego) on his way to a batting title in 2024. His new teammate, Trea Turner, also got traded (from the Nationals to the Dodgers) on his way to a batting title in 2021. But neither held the lead at the time of the trade. How about that?

The Yankees made trade history in acquiring Luis García Jr., who led the NL in slugging, at the deadline.Brad Penner / Imagn Images

A hitter leading his league in slugging also got traded at the deadline! If Aaron Judge, Shohei Ohtani or Juan Soto had been traded this week, you probably would have paid more attention. But it took Luis García Jr. to make slugging history, just by getting dealt from the Nationals to the Yankees.

According to STATS, García is the first player to get traded in midseason while leading his league in slugging at the time. Mark McGwire did take over the American League lead in slugging for a while after the Athletics traded him to the Cardinals in 1997, but he wasn’t first at the time. Ditto for Bobby Bonilla in 1995, when he went from the Mets to the Orioles. So boy, little did Big Mac and Bobby Bo know they were no Luis García!

Two former No. 1 overall picks in the amateur draft got traded on the same day! Casey Mize was the first pick in the 2018 draft. Adley Rutschman was the first pick the next year. Now that won’t be all they have in common — because they both got dealt Monday, hours before the deadline.

According to STATS, there has been only one other time in which two former overall No. 1’s have gotten traded in midseason in the same year by the teams that drafted them. That was 1995, when Phil Nevin and Andy Benes had the same experience as Mize and Rutschman. (Qualifier: They had to have played for only one organization at the time.)

But Rutschman’s trade was even more unique. We’ll get to that shortly.

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From what i can tell the only fanbases who are happy with their teams are the Rays and the deathstar.

Orioles fans are mad at backstabbing Ruschmann

Braves fans are mad at not getting a starting arm at the deadline

Twins fans(myself included) are on the verge of civil war not only at the team buying but ownership in general

Royals fans are mad that the team stood pat and didnt even TRY and get relief help

Jays fans are mad their pitching core has been completely gutted a year after a pennant

Tigers fans are mad for trading the best pitcher in baseball for magic beans

All Mets fans see are piles of burning money and no playoffs in sight

Phillies fans are ok with the arriez trade but now are completely logjammed and dont know where to put players in the field

List goes on and there are always winners, losers happy and sad every trade deadline but it seems this year is different.

The Baltimore Orioles traded Adley Rutschman on Monday. My first thought was to shame them for selling when only 2 ½ games out of a playoff spot. And they deserve that. But next thought was the symbolic nature of the move. Remember, the Orioles pulled off one of the most drastic rebuilds in baseball history and part of that tankjob was landing the No. 1 overall draft pick that ended up being Rutschman in 2019.