One of the busiest and most exciting times of Major League Baseball’s season is rapidly approaching: the trade deadline.This year’s trade deadline is set for Aug.3 at 6 p.m.
ET, with plenty of contenders looking to bolster their rosters.However, looming over the trade deadline are the expiration of the CBA and the lack of sellers.In 2022, Major League Baseball added the third wild-card spot to the postseason, allowing more teams to remain in contention.
At the time of this writing, all but seven teams are within 5.5 games of the final wild-card spot, making more teams reluctant to part ways with key pieces while chasing a playoff berth.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMJoe Girardi salutes the crowd during the New York Yankees Old Timers Day on Aug.24, 2024, at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, N.Y.
(Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)World Series champion Joe Girardi said the sellers are the ones who will control the market."Well, I think it changes it completely because so many teams are still in it.I would say there's only probably seven teams that would consider themselves eliminated out of the 30 so far.
So that means there's probably not going to be a lot of people traded from the other 23 teams.So everyone's going to be in the hunt for those guys on those seven teams.
And there's only so many that that you can acquire," Girardi told Fox News Digital in a recent interview.The Cincinnati Reds, New York Mets, San Francisco Giants, Colorado Rockies, Los Angeles Angels, the Athletics and Kansas City Royals are expected to be among the sellers."I think it's going to make it really interesting.I think for the seven teams that are probably planning on moving players at this time, I think they're in a great position to rebuild because their assets are going to become, teams are going to come at him hard and you're going to get some pretty good deals."Girardi, who won three World Series as a player during his 15-year career and one as a manager of the...