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Plus Jim Kaat’s Whitey Ford fastball, Rocco Baldelli on Michael Lorenzen and Nelson Cruz, Dennis Eckersley’s screwball redux, and more.

Below you’ll find a roundup of notable moves from the past few days, as well as future expected moves and a Minor League Report, which includes a list of recent major league debuts, and top prospect promotions. For this column, any lineup regulars, starting pitchers, or late-inning relievers are considered “notable,” meaning that middle relievers, […]

Below you’ll find a list of every trade that occurred between July 13 and July 31 involving at least one player on a 40-man roster. You can click on “analysis” for the corresponding article and click on “Roster Resource” to view that team’s updated depth chart. For players not on a major league roster, their […]

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Plus Alec Mills’s changeups, more Midwest League standouts, Jaxx Groshans, Ruben Gomez’s ice pick, and more.

Three relievers who lean heavily on a change-of-pace pitch share distinctly different stories.

The Mets’ struggles have mounted to the point that their general manager acknowledges having “low expectations” for the season’s second half. Despite the organization’s dumpster fire start, their young flamethrower has no hope of going elsewhere. “I love being a Met,” Noah Syndergaard told reporters, including Tim Healey of Newsday. “If something were to ever…

Plus Scott Emerson on repertoire diversity, Eric Nadel on pace of play, Rick Monday’s “King of the Room,” and more.

The Rockies are “expected” to call left-hander Kyle Freeland back up to the Majors to rejoin their rotation on Saturday, Kyle Newman of the Denver Post reports. Colorado optioned the southpaw to Triple-A last month after a prolonged cold spell. That Freeland’s difficulties reached the point where an optional assignment was deemed necessary was a…