http://cache.deadspin.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/deadspin.com.png http://deadspin.com/tag/mlb trade deadline http://deadspin.com/tag/mlb trade deadline

Phillies give up farm parts for last year's Cy Young Award Winner and also add right-handed bat Disco Ben Francisco.[The Phillies Zone] More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5325671&view=rss&microfeed=true

The Phillies were all but guaranteed to land the Greatest Pitcher Ever at some point this weekend, but Blue Jays' GM J.P. Ricciardi's now justifiably hard-balling. Impasse! More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5323208&view=rss&microfeed=true

During yesterday's MLB Trade Deadline coverage, ESPN, powerhouse muti-tiered sports entertainment company had seemingly all the bases covered. They had their trade deadline blog with terminally plugged-in reports from Jayson Stark and Buster Olney pumping out information all day, plus their additional on-the-ground baseball writers, and ESPN News hosting a three-hour live segment fronted by Linda Cohn with a rotating cast of MLB experts and regional reporters calling in with on-the-scene reports from the supposedly big buyers and sellers. There was a little countdown clock in the bottom of the screen, right above the scroll, to give the impression that come 4 p.m., ESPN will be there to break the news first and then have an army of talking heads to dissect it. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5031891&view=rss&microfeed=true

There's still hope for everybody — but Peter Gammons seems completely exasperated by the Manny talk — that the blockbuster involving Manny Ramirez, Jason Bay, Matt Kemp, Andre Ethier, some bat boys from the Devil Rays, the Marlins athletic trainer, and about 14 other permutations will come to fruition at some point, but it appears the only significant move at the trade deadline post-Ken Griffey to the White Sox was: More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5031687&view=rss&microfeed=true

Will Manny Ramirez find the peace of mind he seeks in the land of Gators and hanging chads? It's true: Our protagonist is THIS close to being a Marlin; words that in just about any other time would be a dire threat, but this year sound kind of intriguing. At any rate, Florida home attendance should skyrocket to the 20,000-per-game level. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5031467&view=rss&microfeed=true

Much like his reliever brethren Todd Jones, former Yankee Kyle Farnsworth took the news that he was traded to Detroit for Pudge Rodriguez yesterday with the stoicism of a Navy Seal. He realizes the business of professional baseball doesn't allow for emotional attachments and that success in this game requires one to compartmentalize overwhelming feelings of loss and present yourself in a public setting (especially with reporter's ramming tape recorders in your grill and the camera lights blinding you) with dignity and honor. Or not. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5031431&view=rss&microfeed=true