MLB TRADE NEWS
Trade Deadline Breakdown: National League Edition
By Jonah Keri at
We covered the American League's trade deadline fallout on Wednesday. Now, on to the National League.


We covered the American League's trade deadline fallout on Wednesday. Now, on to the National League.

Hanley Ramirez? Traded. Anibal Sanchez? Traded. Cole Hamels? Signed and taken off the market.
Fortunately for those teams still shopping with four days left until the trade deadline, there are plenty of valuable players still out there. You'll get plenty of analysis of Zack Greinke and other top talent elsewhere. We wanted to cover the second-tier players who could prove to be surprise contributors for contending teams.
Here are a few of those bargain-bin trade targets, and the teams best suited to pursue them.

We're six days away from the trade deadline, and teams are strategizing moves that could help their fortunes, now and in the future. But the deals we often remember best aren't the big winners … they're the devastating losers.
Here then are the bad trade archetypes, and the teams that would do well to avoid them.

With the trade deadline fast approaching, it's easy to spot the teams for whom multiple deals would make most sense.
Which is all well and good, until the time comes to actually pull the trigger. The past decade has taught us that certain general managers will be hyper-aggressive come deadline time, whether their teams are in the race or building for the future. Others will sit tight, even when circumstances scream for a deal or three. With the help of indispensable ESPN Stats & Info, we've compiled a list of the most and least aggressive deadline-dealing GMs of the past 10 years. By looking into their past, we can gain a better feel for what they might do (or not do) in the very near future.

There are still nearly five weeks left until baseball's trade deadline. But the addition of a second wild-card spot per league has roped more teams into contention, and more teams into believing they are contenders. That leaves a dearth of sellers dangling limited talent. Which in turn makes aggressively pursuing trades, even this early, a wise move for many ball clubs.
Here are five of the teams with the most glaring needs and the most incentive to make moves, given their place in the standings and likely future outcomes.