MLB Trade Speculation: Impact on Fantasy Owners

First off, we’d like to congratulate Matt Garza of the Tampa Bay Rays of the first no-hitter in the team’s history! Beyond that we take a moment to discuss the impending trade deadline approaching. This is a fun time of year for some owners. That sleeper hitter or pitcher gets traded to a contender and all of a sudden you have a top tier player on your hands. So far, we have gotten pitchers Cliff Lee and Dan Haren traded to the always hot American League West. Both the Rangers and Angels have high caliber teams, many picking the Rangers to take it all this year. Who else could benefit from a trade and has their name on the tongues of general managers?

Milwaukee has a couple of possible trade candidates in Prince Fielder and Corey Hart. You know what you get in Fielder, but Hart has been a homerun  factory it seems this year…well in Corey Hart standards. Roy Oswalt is a topic of hot discussion. He would be a welcomed arm to any contender, only problem is his huge salary and no-trade clause. Also, the Astro’s asking price has been said to be way too high. Still, this might be a good time to throw a buy-low trade offer to an Oswalt owner and take a gamble. Even if he doesn’t get traded he is the staff ace and Pence is on fire again and Carlos Lee can’t flirt with the mendoza line all year right…right? Derrick Lee, Carlos Pena, Jorge Cantu and Jose Guillen have also been shown interest. Of these names only Cantu really stands out as someone who could really prosper from this. Guillen also is a solid hitter, who has been a nice run producer. It would be interesting to see. Jayson Werth is someone the Phillies might try to move and given his present position on a great team, I would think this a downgrade anywhere he went that makes sense. Finally the Diamond Backs, word is their entire roster is free for the choosing aside from probably Justin Upton, but with Haren already ushered who else do we care about?