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P-G re trade rumors, including not for attribution comments from other teams:

https://www.post-gazette.com/sports/pirates/2025/07/05/mlb-trade-deadline-rumors-pirates-mitch-keller-kebryan-hayes-bryan-reynolds/stories/202507050008

Re the thing about Cherington being hard to deal with and overvaluing his players: the same complaint used to be made about Huntington. These comments from opposing teams have always struck me as self-serving. They want the Pirates to function as a bargain basement farm system for the rest of the league.

In Cherington’s case I’m not sure how you overvalue your players and manage to make terrible trades with the Pirates always on the downside of the value. If Cherington is overvaluing his players, he’s doing a really bad job of it.

As to the specifics, the main concrete item is that the Phillies are interested in Santana and Bednar in that order. Since there is clear need and Dombroski is not exactly shy about trading assets, this should be an easy one to pull off in theory.

Edit: The Phillies are not a great match as their only excellent outfield prospect is Justin Crawford, who won’t be traded for Santana. There is a rumor that Crawford might be part of a deal for Luis Roberts. Their other outfield prospects are either too far away or not performing.

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On trades, I was full on the side that if they do I will hope that it is for MLB ready talent. The only team that might offer that is Boston and the Mets. The Cubs outfielder of Cassie and Alcantara are close to or nearly close to, but trading with Cubs might hurt a little more. The only team that realistically could send young prospects that I wouldn’t mind are the Dodgers. Wouldn’t mind Hope or De Paula even if they are two years away

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