SPECULATOR: Trade deadline, part 2: the hitting market
Jul 25 2013
As we covered last week, this month's market for pitching is relatively flush: not only are there plenty of options available (including some we didn't mention, such as Jake Peavy and Edinson Vólquez), but there are a variety of models available. Contending teams can shop at different talent tiers, different levels of remaining salary obligation, and different acquisition prices. Even with Matt Garza now in Texas, the fallback options are plentiful for teams that lost out.
The hitting market looks markedly different. The supply-and-demand equation seems to favor the sellers: in this era of lower run scoring, almost every contender can use an offensive boost of some sort. But there aren't many bats that are obviously available. And of...
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