This is a crazy stupid headline. Making it sound like it is a done deal, this is purely some beat writer speculation with a clickbait headline to garner attention. Dumb.

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  6. Are you new to baseball? That’s what off season reporting is, every year. There is precious little going on (as opposed to during the very busy regular season) and reporters are still expected to justify their paychecks. Off season reporting should generally be approached as entertainment rather than strictly informational.

  7. All the websites that do these clickbaity “trade pitch” articles swiftly got removed from my news feed a few off-seasons ago. Thankfully, this is the only place I see them now.

  8. i mean at this point, you shouldn’t take anything in Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, FanSided, or the various crap sites people sometimes quote (Empire Sports Media? Motorcycle Sports Network?) seriously.

    *At best*, these cites are aggregating stuff from actual reporters with clickbaity rhetoric. (“Braves could improve rotation with $73 million pitcher!”) At worst, they’re doing their own shitty punditry and presenting it as reporting.

    TBH it’s so easy with the Braves too. Virtually 100% of news about the team (and even credible rumors) is broken by @Braves, Rosenthal/Athletic people or Passan. If you follow exclusively those people, you will miss nothing of value.

  11. Stupid click-bait headlines. I miss the days when headlines were an art — literally summarizing the entire article in a few words. That took talent and thought. Now it’s just AI clickbait and I skip it.

  12. I hate these. Any mf can just make up some ridiculous trade idea, and someone will publish it and get view. At the same time, if the bar is this low maybe someone will pay me to do this.

  13. That is the most clickbait wording of an article title I’ve ever seen lol. Masterful stuff.

  14. I hate these clickbait articles about an imaginary trade that a writer who needs more content cooked up in their head. I would need to locked in prison with no access to the outdoors or prison gym for this to be even remotely worth my time.

  15. Not sure anyone else cares, but wtf is with all these trade speculation articles popping up on google when I search Braves? They used to not be there, it was reserved for news, not punditry. But for like the last month, there’s one or two articles every day about trade speculation, with headlines that don’t even hint that it’s speculation. Google needs to do better… I realize that’s incredibly unlikely

  17. * *sigh* *

    I miss the days when The Sporting News was a legitimate source of sports info.

  18. I keep reading the headline and see no way to interpret it other than “Sale and Strider have been traded.”
    What the hell?

  20. I read this as “Braves trade pitch(ing) pair” instead of “Braves TRADE PITCH pairs…” idk if that makes sense. But I had to read it 5 times before it made sense to me

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