SPECULATOR: 2016 Trade deadline roundtable, pt. 1

Each year around this time, the Speculator column takes a trip through the trade rumors, to get the juices flowing about what might happen in the trade market over the next three weeks. This year, the three Speculator contributors—Ray Murphy, Brent Hershey and Jock Thompson—engage in a bit of banter in a roundtable format. Listen in; and we'll revisit the exercise the week of the deadline.

BRENT: In some recent seasons, there has been some significant early trades that have gone down around this first-week-of-July timeframe. We got a minor taste so far—Fernando Rodney, Aaron Hill, Brad Ziegler—and in the Rodney and Ziegler instances, ones that have significant ripples from a fantasy perspective. Who might be the other teams (and...

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