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The Mets are set to recall RHP Brandon Sproat for his big league debut today. He had a rough start to his season in Triple-A but found his rhythm eventually. His season-long line still includes a 4.24 ERA and 1.24 WHIP through 25 starts, and he’s turned in a couple stinkers among his last four outings, but he had a dominant stretch from June 26 through August 7th, going 4-and-0 with a 2.49 ERA and 1.04 WHIP through 43.1 innings across nine starts. The Mets are a top-five organization when it comes to pitching, so I’d be betting we see more of good Sproat than struggling Sproat in his spot starts from here forward. 

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If I were running an MLB organization these past few weeks, I’d have been on the phone with Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s agent in a fairly constant way, discussing long term contracts while I backchannel with the Blue Jays about his price tag on the trade market. It’s probably good that I’m not in that position. In dynasty leagues, I have a tendency to pay what it costs to make the move and figure out the rest in the aftermath. Major league teams do not agree with that approach, considering the lack of prospect firepower that changed organizations on deadline day. Baseball America ran a piece that said zero top 100 prospects were traded this time around. While we might be able to pick at the specifics a bit, the premise feels fair enough: this year brought us a strange few days of trades without many Named Guys making headlines. 

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