{"id":22596,"date":"2026-07-31T01:49:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=22596"},"modified":"2026-07-31T01:49:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:49:51","slug":"three-mlb-trade-deadline-deals-teams-should-at-least-explore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=22596","title":{"rendered":"Three MLB trade deadline deals teams should at least explore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F07%2Fnewspress-collage-dlrnvms7i-1785443484281.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall%261785429143\" \/><\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n<p>Don\u2019t you have to at least make a call?<\/p>\n<p>It is that time of year. You are a contending team and you keep looking at the market like a menu at your local diner, wanting to find something that isn\u2019t there.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>So how about a game to offer new blood in the marketplace prior to Monday\u2019s deadline. I do not \u2014 I repeat DO NOT \u2014 anticipate any of this happening (sorry aggregators) and I have not heard any of these players are actually available. This is designed for fun and to think about where some organizations are at this moment. But just in case \u2026<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>1. If you are the Yankees, don\u2019t you have to call the Phillies about Bryce Harper?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Why the Phillies should take the call:<\/strong> Yeah, owner John Middleton and president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski are in the star-collecting, not disposing business. But haven\u2019t these sides been in a slow-motion divorce for months now? Since Dombrowski publicly said that Harper\u2019s 2025 was \u201cvery good\u201d but \u201cnot elite\u201d and Harper seemed to appreciate that as much as 100 mph up and in.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t you have to at least make a call? It is that time of year. You are a contending team and you keep looking at the market like a menu at your local diner, wanting to find something that isn\u2019t there. So how about a game to offer new blood in the marketplace prior to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/newspress-collage-dlrnvms7i-1785443484281.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&1785429143&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-hub"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}