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2024 Trade Deadline

overall, a pretty underwhelming trade deadline for the Tigers. They had the best pitcher "available" in Skubal and the best available rental in Flaherty. I was hoping for some really high end prospects.
 
tomdalton22 said:
overall, a pretty underwhelming trade deadline for the Tigers. They had the best pitcher "available" in Skubal and the best available rental in Flaherty. I was hoping for some really high end prospects.
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I think everyone over valued Flaherty.. I know if it was the other way around I wouldn't want to give up top prospect for a 2 month rental. As for Skubal the only team with the prospects was the Orioles and they seem set against giving their top prospects up. Maybe Wash. but they weren't buyers.

But in the offseason Harris or whoever has to find out if Skubal will want to sign an extension. Otherwise you trade him before next season.
 
I’m a bit underwhelmed. It’s also going to be a rough go of the rest of this season. I see us filling starter gaps with players that aren’t ready, or burning out the bullpen.
 

Dodgers add front-line rotation player in Flaherty minutes before deadline ends​

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Dodgers get:
RHP Jack Flaherty

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Tigers get:
C/1B Thayron Liranzo
SS Trey Sweeney

Dodgers grade: A

Flaherty represented the big-game catch in this trade market as Garrett Crochet, Blake Snell and Tarik Skubal stayed put. Back in the second half of 2019, Flaherty had one of the most dominant runs of recent years and finished fourth in the Cy Young voting. Years of injuries and disappointing results followed, but he rediscovered his slider with the Detroit Tigers -- and, subsequently, he's 7-5 with a 2.95 ERA, 133 strikeouts and just 19 walks in 106⅔ innings.

The Los Angeles Dodgers, looking for as much starting pitching insurance as possible after all the injuries that hit them last October, wanted a front-of-the-rotation starter and got one in Flaherty. They're still waiting -- or hoping -- for Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Walker Buehler to get healthy, but they can now dream of a playoff rotation featuring Tyler Glasnow, Flaherty, Yamamoto, Clayton Kershaw and Buehler as options. For a team that has gone 15 consecutive playoff games without a starter getting an out in the sixth inning, that's a rotation -- again, if healthy -- that finally gets the Dodgers back to a World Series.

Is there any downside here? I don't see it. The Dodgers -- with the San Diego Padres still close enough to make the NL West race close -- can now feel a little more comfortable in easing Yamamoto and Buehler back. Flaherty has been remarkably consistent, going at least five innings in every start so far this season and allowing more than three runs just once in his past 13 outings. Flaherty is just a rental, but he's the best starting pitcher to get traded and exactly what the Dodgers needed.

Tigers grade: C+

This return looks a little disappointing, especially in comparison to what the Toronto Blue Jays got for Yusei Kikuchi. The Tigers waited until the last second to flip Flaherty, perhaps waiting for a better offer that didn't come in.

Sweeney is a high-probable big leaguer, a 2021 first-round pick of the New York Yankees who was traded to the Dodgers this past offseason for pitcher Victor Gonzalez and minor league infielder Jorbit Vivas. Sweeney is hitting .255/.334/.427 at Triple-A -- but that's Oklahoma City, a good place to hit, and he owns a career .250 average in the minors. He has some pop, but it's difficult to see him as much more than a fringe regular at best -- though, of course, that would still be an upgrade over Javier Baez.

Liranzo is yet another Dodgers catching prospect. He just turned 21 and is hitting .220 with seven home runs in the Midwest League. There's power potential and he did have a huge year in Single-A in 2023, hitting .273/.400/.562 in his age-19 season. There's certainly upside here, but he has lost some of the pizazz he had after last season. This could certainly turn into a big win for the Tigers, and maybe this grade is a little unfair to Liranzo's potential. We'll see in a couple of years. -- Schoenfield
 
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This is what I don't get "This return looks a little disappointing, especially in comparison to what the Toronto Blue Jays got for Yusei Kikuchi." Everyone and their ma knows the Astros gave up way too much. Unfortunately the Astros were the only stupid team this trade deadline.
 
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