Rise and Phight: 7/25/2023

Our TGP Slack channel is an active one. We talk about all manner of topics - gardening, Star Wars, Marvel, travel baseball. We also dabble in current baseball topics and one came up yesterday that I found quite interesting.

Without revealing who asked the question, there was one posed that made me pause. If you were running the Phillies and were offered Francisco Lindor straight up for Trea Turner, would you do it?

There were some vociferous “no’s” from people, nary a “yes” and from me, a “I’d think about it.” I’m not sure I’d dismiss it entirely out hand as quickly as some people did, but I would actually think about it a little bit longer than most.

What say you?

On to the links.

Phillies news:

• It didn’t happen last night, but the plan looks to be for Bryce Harper to start playing first base on “most days”.
• The rumors connecting the Phillies to Tommy Pham are starting to get a little bit louder these days.

MLB news:

• It’s probably going to start to be time to include daily rumors at this point, so let’s see what Ken Rosenthal is hearing these days.
• The Braves opened their deadline moves by acquiring a reliever from the Rockies in exchange for two prospects.
• The Reds, in the NL Central race, are considering moving Jonathan India for arms? Seems weird.