Ken Rosenthal Reacts to Trade Deadline Madness | Padres, Carlos Correa, Yankees Deals

Let’s start with the biggest buyer of the day, the king of the deadline, San Diego Padres’s general manager, AJ Prowler. And Ken, first of all, I want to thank you and applaud you for all of the work that you do. For most of us, this is like Christmas morning, Hanukkah, all of the things. But for you, it’s one of the busiest days of the year. So, let’s talk about that. AJ Prowler, whining and dining, wheeling and dealing. Let’s talk about the Padres’s and what they gave up and what they gained. What’s really interesting to me, Alana, is that about a week ago, I asked the A’s about Mason Miller, and I asked about the Padres’s being on Mason Miller because AJ Pller is generally on every good player he can get his hands on or thinks he can get his hands on. And I was told Pller didn’t have the farm system. And then he asked the A’s, “Okay, what prospects can I go get you from other teams to satisfy you?” And the A’s said, “We don’t want to play that game.” But what happened was AJ Pller did what he always does. He was persistent. He was relentless. He never stopped trying. And yesterday, it must have been right about this time. It was a story that Dennis Lyn and I wrote saying that they were still after the Padres’s, Jiren Durant, Steven Quan, and they were also pushing for Mason Miller. Turns out what happens today. They get Mason Miller. And not only do they get Mason Miller, they get a starting pitcher, JP Sears. And in addition to that, they get Ryan O’Harn, Ramon Lauriano from the Orioles, Will War, Will Wagner from the Blue Jays. Here’s the entire list. I’ve got to read it myself. Oh yes, and Freddy Fine, the catcher from the Royals, talented guy, and Neestor Cortez Jr. Now the shock of this was beyond the absolute shock of the Padres’s trading a top 100 prospect top 10 prospect Dere for Mason Miller the shock of it was they did all this and they didn’t trade off their major league roster except for Brandon Lockidge they kept Dylan Cece they kept Robert Suarez and now they have a team Alana that is absolutely loaded they’re going to be fun to watch and they have I would say a puncher chance even better than that of chasing down the Dodgers, the Mets, the Phillies, whoever you want to name, in the division and then of course for the National League title and maybe even the World Series title. Yeah, I couldn’t agree with you more. The National League overnight got so much better with the Mets adding to their bullpen, the Phillies adding to their bullpen, obviously the Padres’s, what they’ve just done in terms of additions. Ken, one thing that made me think, “Oh my goodness,” and my head just blew off my neck, is Carlos Koreah going back to the Houston Astros, the Twins have basically gotten rid of everybody. What do you make of it? This was the other head spinner of the day. and Alana, a couple of days ago, can’t remember the time right now because, you know, it’s all kind of running together, but I was talking to the Twins people and they were saying because the team was for sale, they might not want to trade controllable pieces because you know what, the new owner might come in, allow them to spend money, and they can do some better things with what they have. Turns out they traded everybody. And with Carlos Koreah, it was astonishing because he’s been injured quite a bit. He’s been a guy who of course has a huge contract. And in this deal, the Twins are kicking in about 30 million of the 90 million or so owed him over the course of his contract. He’s going to play third base for the Astros, but this was just the start for the Twins. They ended up trading the guys on expiring contracts that we anticipated, Willie Castro and some others. the two relievers that are under control for two additional years each. Joan Duran, he went to the Phillies and Griffin Jax who went to the Rays. That was something that I didn’t necessarily expect. But the twins will tell you, we held on to Pablo Lopez. We held on to Joe Ryan. We’ve still got Royce Lewis and Byron Buckton and a bunch of people to build around. But you see what they lost. That’s 10 players off their major league roster. It’s astonishing what they did. Bader is expiring contract. Castro the same. Danny Kulom, Ty France, Chris Paddock, all of those guys. Brock Stewart was under club control for a few years. He went to the Dodgers. Louie Varland, another guy that was under control. So they did this and they brought back a couple of really interesting pieces. The catcher that they acquired from the Phillies, a top 100 prospect. Nick Ael from the Phillies, who is a top 100 type guy as well, right-handed pitcher. And I’m forgetting who they got in the other trade. It was well, I’ll get back to it, but they did pretty well. Oh, Taj Bradley in the Griffin Jacks trade. They did okay, but the shock of it was that they burned the house down. Now, they will tell you they didn’t do that. Here are the players they acquired. Mick Ael, Eduardo Tate, Taj Bradley, Alan Rhoden. He’s another major leager. Came from the Blue Jays in the Varland and Tai France trade. They will say we did burn it all down. We kept a number of guys, but my goodness, no one expected the Minnesota Twins to pull the plug like they did. And they pulled it in a big way. They massively pulled it in a big way. I’m not certain, Ken, if I’m more surprised at what they did or the fact that Johan Durant got traded. We can get into that in a moment. But what about the Yankees? Obviously, this is a team always with expectations to go into the postseason, get deep into the postseason. Did the Yankees do enough? They did quite a bit and Alana, hats off to them because they were one of the big winners of the day in my opinion. Now granted with all of these things, we can say one team is a winner, another team is a loser and we can make our list as we all will after the deadline. We actually don’t know who is going to end up winners and losers. But let’s look at who the Yankees acquired over the course of this deadline period. And it climaxed today with the acquisitions of three relievers. astonishing acquisitions actually because all of them are under club control beyond this season. And remember, the Yankees face the losses of Devin Williams and Luke Weaver at the end of this season to free agency. But they get David Bednar from the Pirates, one year extra control. Jake Bird from the Rockies, he’s got additional control. Camilo Dval, that’s a bullpen. When you put those two with Weaver and Williams and some of the injured relievers they have coming back, it’s going to be quite a group. And of course, the Yankees had previously addressed their position needs with McMahon and Slater and Rosario. And today they add José Cabayro as well. They are a better team today, a significantly better team than they were yesterday. And they did this at a time when the Red Sox, we’ll get to them at some point, did not have an impressive deadline. And the Blue Jays did some things, but I don’t know that they improved themselves as much as the Yankees did. Maybe they didn’t need to, but the Yankees, what they did, what Brian Kman orchestrated at this deadline, it was a torto force along the lines of what AJ Pler did. Maybe not quite as dramatic, but pretty darn

Ken Rosenthal breaks down a wild day of trade deadline deals… From AJ Preller’s all-out shopping spree with the San Diego Padres, to the Twins shocking everyone by tearing down their roster — including trading Carlos Correa back to the Astros — no team was safe. Ken shares inside intel on the biggest trades, why the New York Yankees quietly became one of the day’s biggest winners, and how the balance of power may have shifted in the National League.

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