Baseball Daily Dose: Daily Dose: Deadline Deals Follow @Rotoworld_BB and @RyanPBoyer on Twitter.   Whew. The moves came fast and furious prior to Monday’s trade deadline, with a whopping 18 deals being made. Let’s get to some fantasy implications of those trades. Lucroy, Beltran Land in Texas   Jonathan Lucroy used his veto power to shoot down a trade to the Indians over the weekend, but the … [Read more...]

Mookie Betts lifts Red Sox to another amazing late inning comeback Welcome to The Walk Off, the nightly MLB recap from Big League Stew. Here we’ll look at the top performers of the night, show you a must-see highlight and rundown the scoreboard. First, we start with a game you need to know about. The 2016 Boston Red Sox appear to have a flair for the dramatic. A day after pulling off an … [Read more...]

The winners and losers of the 2016 MLB trade deadline The 2016 Major League Baseball trade deadline has passed. For a while, it looked as though the deadline might be quiet this season, but all hell broke loose in the final minutes. The Milwaukee Brewers found a taker for Jonathan Lucroy, the Chicago White Sox held on to Chris Sale and the New York Yankees continued to sell. That was just a … [Read more...]

MLB trade-deadline day: Here's every trade that happened Eighteen trades went down in Major League Baseball on Monday — including one in which a player was sent back to a team that traded him to just a few days ago. Yep, MLB trade-deadline day is a fun one. And while we were here, watching every minute of the action, we know some of you had things to do. Like work. Or seeing your family. … [Read more...]

Watch live: The Blue Jays face the Astros in the Free Game of the Day The Toronto Blue Jays fell to the Baltimore Orioles in extra innings on Sunday, which meant they missed out on sweeping their AL East rival and gave them back first place. The Blue Jays have been hovering near the top of the AL East for most of the season, but no team has been able to create and hang on to a convincing … [Read more...]

Blue Jays take gamble on Francisco Liriano to help rotation Francisco Liriano will look to turn around his fortunes in Toronto. (Getty Images/Dylan Buell) Desperate for help in the rotation, the Toronto Blue Jays have acquired Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Francisco Liriano in a deal that didn’t come to light until long after the trade deadline passed. In exchange for Liriano, the Pirates have … [Read more...]

Giants get Matt Moore from Rays, but pay a big price The Giants added Matt Moore to their rotation (AP). The San Francisco Giants, still looking for parts to make the even-year magic spin, made a last-minute deal with the Tampa Bay Rays to bolster their rotation. But it didn’t come without a price. [Join a Yahoo Daily Fantasy Baseball contest now] The Giants got Matt Moore, the sought-after, … [Read more...]

Twins acquire Hector Santiago to dump Ricky Nolasco on Angels Hector Santiago is the newest member of the Twins. (Getty Images/Matt Brown) The 2016 Major League Baseball trade deadline was hectic. A number of deals got done as the clock struck 4 p.m. ET. Elite talent changed teams. Promising youngsters found new homes. Twitter erupted in shock and awe as the flurry of trades started coming … [Read more...]

Yasmani Grandal catches wildest pitch ever in his chest protector When a pitcher throws a pitch and the batter doesn’t hit it, the catcher can’t stop it, and the runner (or runners) advance, that’s a wild pitch. But a wild pitch can be so much more! Sunday’s game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks featured one of the wildest — and craftiest — wild pitches ever. … [Read more...]

Dodgers prospect’s trade-deadline joke backfires when he's traded One of running jokes of the modern trade deadline is the #HugWatch — when over-eager fans watch for players to hug each other on the field, signaling, in their conclusion-jumping minds, that one of them has been traded. [Join a Yahoo Daily Fantasy Baseball contest now] On Sunday, Los Angeles Dodgers pitching prospect Grant … [Read more...]