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Successfully Wild Episode 1884: The Nice Commerce Deadline Obtain

August 3, 2022

After a busy deadline day, Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley react to all of the commerce exercise, starting with a high-level overview of the deadline, a recap of the Rockies’ inexercise (5:28), the Padres’ Juan Soto, Josh Hader, Brandon Drury, and Joe Musgrove strikes (13:58) and the mad genius of A.J. Preller, the equally unprecedented nature of the Hader-Taylor Rogers swap (33:42), and the Nationals’ aspect of the Soto blockbuster (42:03). Then they pause to pay tribute to Vin Scully (53:37), whose loss of life was introduced in the course of the recording. With heavier hearts, they return to the commerce speak and focus on the Mariners and Luis Castillo (1:03:00), the completion of the Reds and A’s teardowns (1:15:43), the Yankees’ additions (1:20:50), the Astros’ upgrades (1:31:27), the Orioles’ determination to promote (1:36:01), the Twins’ exercise in contast to the Guadians and White Sox (1:44:11), what the Cardinals did and didn’t do (1:47:51), the NL East’s strikes (1:49:06), the Cubs conserving Willson Contreras and Ian Happ (1:52:56), and the Pink Sox, Rays, Blue Jays, Giants, and different groups (1:57:55), plus a Previous Blast from 1884 (2:06:45).