SPECULATOR: Trade deadline speculation roundtable, part II
Jul 26 2015
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. Since this year Speculator has become rotated among three writers, we decided to engage all three of us—Ray Murphy, Brent Hershey and Jock Thompson—in a little trade speculation talk in a roundtable format. In case you missed it, here is part I from a couple of weeks ago.
(Ed. note: the bulk of this conversation took place early this past weekend, before the Reds/Royals or Mets/Braves deals were announced.)
RAY: We have (finally) seen the first action of this deadline period, with Scott Kazmir and Aramis Ramirez changing uniforms. Neither move seemed...
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