re: MLB Trade Rumors: 07/31/17 Darvish/Cingrani to Dodgers, Kintzler to the Nats

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Casey Pratt?Verified account @CaseyPrattABC7 Follow More
#HUGWATCH Eduardo Nunez appears to have been traded. #SFGiants

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Nice move

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There’s somewhat of a market for backup catcher Rene Rivera, tweets Mike Puma of the New York Post, and the Cubs are among the clubs with interest. Chicago has been linked to multiple catchers, most prominently Alex Avila, as the team looks to find a more experienced backup to Willson Contreras. 

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Padres chairman Ron Fowler suggested today in a radio appearance on The Mighty 1090 that he doesn’t really expect the team to end up dealing lefty Brad Hand (h/t Dennis Lin of the San Diego Union-Tribune). “Other things being equal right now, I don’t see us moving him, because we value him more than what’s being offered and we think he could be part of the team for the foreseeable future,”

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Though it’s still unclear just what course the Cardinals will take at the deadline, the club is now “expected to listen to offers” on outfielders Tommy Pham and Randal Grichuk, according to MLB.com’s Jon Morosi.

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St. Louis also has some shorter-term assets that might be of interest — Lance Lynn, Seung-hwan Oh, and Trevor Rosenthal chief among them — and Morosi does note that the Dodgers and Nationals had scouts at the club’s latest game last night.

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The Cubs are among the teams to have asked the Mets about righty Seth Lugo, per ESPN.com’s Jerry Crasnick (via Twitter)

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Some interest has begun to develop in Mets outfielder Curtis Granderson, according to Jon Heyman of Fan Rag (via Twitter)

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Id be cool with lynn

And id rather him than maeda in a game 3 or 4

but you also don't want to give him away just to give him away. Especially after seeing what the Yankees got for Miller last year who was not a closer last year.

The team with the most trades overall in the last 10 years is the Pirates. They've made 158 deals since 2007. The A's are the only other team with over 150 trades; they've made 151.

- Everyone loves to trade with Pittsburgh. The Pirates don't just pace MLB in overall trades since 2007, they've also been the most frequent trading partner for seven different teams -- the Braves (eight trades), Mets (five), Giants (four), Red Sox (11), Yankees (10), Indians (13) and Twins (five).

- The Giants have rarely pulled the trigger on deals. Their 48 trades since 2007 are the fewest of any of the 30 teams, and they have no more than four with any single club. But whatever they've done (or haven't done), that strategy has paid off with three World Series titles.

- The most trades between any two clubs since 2007 is 14. That's been done by two pairs of teams, both involving the Blue Jays -- they've traded with the Phillies and A's 14 times apiece.

- Toronto has accounted for more than 15 percent of the Phillies' trades since 2007, 14 of 91. That makes them the heaviest trading partner for any single team, going by percent of total trades.

- The most common intra-divisional trading partners of the last 10 years are the Red Sox and Orioles in the American League East. They've traded with each other seven times in that span.

- Crosstown trades haven't exactly been common over the last decade. This month's Jose Quintana trade was the first between the White Sox and Cubs going back to 2007. The Mets and Yankees have also only traded once in that time. The Dodgers and Angels have made three deals.

- Rivalry trades, too, haven't happened very often. The Yankees and Red Sox have made one trade since 2007, as have the Cubs and Cardinals and the Dodgers and Giants. The Mets and Phillies, whose rivalry began in earnest around 2007, haven't traded once since then. All that makes the Rangers and Astros' four trades since '07 seem hefty by comparison.

- The Rangers and D-backs trade with everyone, literally. They're the only two teams to have swung at least one trade with all the other 29 franchises in the last 10 years.

- The Cardinals, on the other hand, are the most discretionary about who they trade with. There are seven teams they've gone untraded with since 2007, the most of any team. Those seven: the Mets, Reds, Pirates, Giants, Yankees, Rays and Twins.

- The Royals have spread their trades around the league the most evenly. Their most common partner of the last 10 years, the Rangers, has been on the other end of only 6.5 percent of Kansas City's total trades in that time. That's the lowest share of a team's trades accounted for by its top trading partner.

Just look closely