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Dugout Metrics Podcast 8 — Trade deadline review

Related Topics: Luke Smailes

After almost two years away, Dugout Metrics is back, and bolstered by a new teammate, pitcher/analyst Malachi Hayes, who sits down with Trevor Lines and Brett Ballantini to review Rick Hahn’s Big Trade Deadline Adventure.

  • Dugout Metrics left fielder Luke Smailes has been traded! We needed pitching, badly
  • Up top, did Hahn execute at this deadline about as well as expected, better, worse?
  • Breaking down everything, trade by trade. Importing some catching, good; expecting greatness of hurlers jettisoned by a pitcher-strengthening organization like the Dodgers, a bit dicey
  • But, broadly, Hahn took some big swings, a necessity for a team in the bottom-five in baseball, and a minors system no better
  • A dive into players not dealt, which of course features a ton of Dylan cease talk but also moves into both, hmm, why not Aaron Bummer and, hmm, who in the world else has any luster for other clubs?