The 2024 Major League Baseball trade deadline is just one week away on July 30, but there's still a ton of uncertainty as far as which teams will be buyers, which ones will be sellers and which players the sellers will be willing to move. Rumors of trade interests have been flying all over the place in recent days, but how much of it is legitimate? We've pulled together some of the top gossip from the past 96 hours to do some of our own buying and selling on whether any of it will come to fruition. To be clear, if we're selling a rumor, it doesn't mean we're doubting the source.
It simply means we don't see the transaction as likely to happen, either because the team with the star player probably won't part with him or because it doesn't particularly make sense for the rumored suitor. Rumors are presented in no particular order. Rumor : "Chicago White Sox lefty Garrett Crochet is considered to be at the top of the Dodgers' list, regardless of whether he's a starter or a reliever the rest of the way.
" - ESPN's Alden Gonzalez (reported Saturday) Buying or Selling? Surely, the Los Angeles Dodgers are going to be aggressive buyers. They just about have the NL West won at this point, but they would love to chase down the Phillies for the No. 1 seed.
At the very least, they want to make sure to stay ahead of the Brewers, lest they end up with the No. 3 seed and have to play in the wild card round. Doing so means plugging some of the holes, both in the bottom third of the lineup and.