Post third party opinions/rankings on the trades/new prospects here

[Frobby]

This thread is not intended for posters to give their own views about the trades and prospects — it’s merely a thread for posting links to and/or excerpts from third party opinions about them.    I’ll start with two:

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/brewers-acquire-jonathan-schoop-presumably-to-play-infield/

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/ranking-the-prospects-traded-at-the-deadline-2/

[Frobby]

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/braves-add-gaus-to-sputtering-rotation/

[Frobby]

I can’t access this one, but maybe a BP subscriber can excerpt/paraphrase:   https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/41725/transaction-analysis-braves-take-gausman-oday-off-orioles-hands/

[Redskins Rick]

http://www.masnsports.com/steve-melewski/2018/08/five-trades-bring-15-new-players-to-the-orioles-organization.html

[Redskins Rick]

ESPN says Braves are the winner on Gausman trade:

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Atlanta Braves, for getting Kevin Gausman: I love this deal, getting a solid major league starter who is under team control through 2020 without giving up any of the top-10 prospects from a deep farm system. The Braves gave up four players and international slot money as the Orioles go with quantity (and they dumped Darren O'Day's contract on the Braves). Third baseman Jean Carlos Encarnacion, the No. 14 prospect on MLB's midseason update list for the Braves, is the highest-rated of the four prospects, a 20-year-old in low-A with 100 strikeouts and 13 walks.

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/24247832/mlb-winners-losers-mlb-trade-deadline

[Redskins Rick]

https://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2018/7/31/17634794/trade-deadline-instant-reactions-mlb-tommy-pham-cardinals-rays

[Diehard_O's_Fan]

I was watching ESPN last night and Keith Law gave the Orioles a B for their trades.

[Grt 2BA FL Gator]

1 hour ago, Frobby said:

This thread is not intended for posters to give their own views about the trades and prospects — it’s merely a thread for posting links to and/or excerpts from third party opinions about them.    I’ll start with two:

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/brewers-acquire-jonathan-schoop-presumably-to-play-infield/

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/ranking-the-prospects-traded-at-the-deadline-2/

Cumberland rated pretty highly on this list.

We got a lot of depth with these trades. Almost all of these guys enter into our top 30. Which is kinda crazy because there are 13 or so of them (minor leaguers). I get the desire for a star or two. Perhaps we can get that later if Bundy picks his game up and we draft well, international signings, etc. 

Kind of arbitrary, but we got 7 of the top 23 guys traded at the deadline. 66 total players on that list. 

[Frobby]

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/brewers-acquire-orioles-jonathan-schoop-for-jonathan-villar-2-prospects/

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/the-braves-bet-on-former-orioles-starter-kevin-gausman/

[terphoopsfan]

1 hour ago, Diehard_O's_Fan said:

I was watching ESPN last night and Keith Law gave the Orioles a B for their trades.

That must have hurt for him to say that.

[clapdiddy]

https://www.mlb.com/news/farm-systems-improved-the-most-at-deadline/c-288229666

[Frobby]

Zachary Rymer of Bleacher Report gives the Machado and Schoop deals a B+ and the other deals a B.    Looking at his other grades, he’s a very lenient grader all the way around.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/2788456-mlb-trade-deadline-live-grades-for-all-the-biggest-trades.amp.html

[Frobby]

Mike Axisa of CBS Sports gives the O’s a B+.    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-trade-deadline-grades-blue-jays-padres-royals-get-top-marks-among-sellers/amp/

[NedFromYork]

I like trading Machado, Britton, Brach, but would have kept Gausman and Schoop who are signed for two more years after this.  The chance to retool quickly is there, trade them in two years at the deadline if not a WS threat.  Still have Cobb, Bundy, (Gausman), in two years, can be competitive with young (OF) defense and improved OBP, trade them then.

Jones is one I would have liked to move, Trumbo as well.  I guess since Cashner is only signed for next year, he'd be another.

If we want the #1 pick, still could have done that by skipping some starts for Bundy and Gausman, go to a 6 man rotation, etc.

[Frobby]

Josh Hill of Fansided gave the O’s a B+ for Gausman and B- for Schoop.   https://www.google.com/amp/s/fansided.com/2018/07/30/mlb-trade-deadline-tracker-grades-analysis/amp/