Baseball Trade Values Podcast, Episode 143: Rumors Abound

Welcome back to the Baseball Trade Values Podcast! In this episode, founder John Bitzer (@johnbitzer2) and Associate Editor Joshua Iversen (@jive_mlb) break down recent transactions, including the Lance McCullers Jr. trade, extensions for JJ Wetherholt, Chase Burns and Kyle Bradish, and more. Then, they run through a flurry of trade deadline rumors and assess how active this deadline will be. Link: Rosenthal et al. - Blockbuster summer? Why buying and selling at MLB’s trade deadline is more complicated than ever https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7448740/2026/07/16/mlb-trade-deadline-buyers-sellers-tarik-skubal/