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?