Inside the MLB Trade Deadline: Why Teams Are Gambling Everything on Relentless Bullpens and What It Means for the Future of Baseball
To a lesser degree but not to be forgotten, the Cubs, Tigers and Blue Jays acquiring fireballer Mason Miller from the A’s in a package that included MLB’s No. 3 prospect, Leo De Vries.
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The big swing can be interpreted as Preller doubling down; San Diego figured out something that worked with their bullpen strategy last season. Granted, the Padres lost to the Dodgers in Game 5 of the NLDS, but their bullpen is one of the main reasons they were on the precipice of upending the eventual World Series champs in October.
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