MLB Trade Talks Heat Up: Orioles Eyeing Key Players!

The Angels, very similar to the Mets, scratched one of their pitchers from their start this weekend. Jose Soriano did not start. As of right now, they haven't announced anything for Tuesday with Reid Detmers, but he could be certainly on the move. He'll face off with Cade Povich. This is a series that the Orioles are in a good position to take, Tom. And if they do, and just kind of to set the tone here for some of these pitchers that get scratched, just from my experience doing this in the past, what this usually means, not every time, but it usually means when a team scratches a pitcher, they have set a floor for what they would accept in a trade. So I would assume the Mets have what they want for Peralta, and the Angels have what they want for Soriano. And now what they'll do is try and see if they can extract a little bit more or work out a final deal with a team, because you wouldn't do that unless you knew you had some sort of trade in hand. But it doesn't pay them to do it right now. They can wait, try to get another team involved in it, but that is sort of the thinking. So I would imagine Soriano was on the move before next week. Yeah, Soriano and or Reid Detmers, both could be moved. And again, it's just rational way teams operate is very simple. Again, the Orioles, for as bad or mediocre as they've been, they're one and a half games out of a wildcard spot right now. They're playing the Angels. Two out of three games is a big spot. So two out of three for them. The Twins are ahead of them in the wildcard. We certainly don't think, despite the moves the Twins are making, we don't think the Twins are actually good enough. But chasing down the Guardians, who are in a bit of a free fall right now, they're two and eight over their last 10. This is spot for the Orioles to win two to three or sweep the series and vault themselves back into the wildcard spot, which is not something that we would have said two or three or four weeks ago.