MLB Trade Rumors and News: Diamondbacks ink a new deal with Eduardo Escobar

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• The Diamondbacks made a trade for Eduardo Escobar at the trade deadline this past season and apparently they liked what they saw. Escobar decided to forgo a potentially lucrative free agent market and signed a 3-year deal with the club.
• We put out a poll yesterday to see who you thought should win the American Most Valuable Player award. There are several very viable candidates including one that will be playing in the World Series shortly.
• The Angels have hired Brad Ausmus as their manager after he passed the SAT equivalent of someone wanting to run a Major League Baseball team.
• Up next on the rotation of, “Teams Who Fired Their Manager But We Forgot”, the Cincinnati Reds have hired David Bell as their new manager. At least his team’s color scheme hasn’t changed.
• Our Patrick Karraker is making the cases for the 2018 NL and AL Comeback Player of the Year Awards.
• The secret to the Dodgers’ success is everybody.
• There are several managerial and front office openings already and teams are busy interviewing candidates and seeing who is available. Make sure you stay up to date on all of the latest rumors on that front in our managerial and executive openings tracker.
• As the Marlins are ready to be nobody’s fool, they’ve acquired $500,000 in extra international signing bonus pool money from the Astros, sending low-level minor-leaguers Adonis Giron and Brayan de Paula to Houston in return.
• What to do with all that money, you may ask? The Marlins already know, completing their anticipated move of signing highly touted international prospects, Victor Victor Mesa and Victor Mesa Jr. You might say that they’re setting themselves up...the be the Victors. Please stop throwing things at me.
• The Braves were surprisingly good this year and they looked primed to compete over the next few years. As a reward for that success, manager Brian Snitker received a multi-year contract extension that was quite deserved.
• MLB let the Astros off the hook for cheating ... for now.
• Our Wayne Cavadi has broken down the five biggest takeaways from the Yankees’ season.
• While baseball is still raging on, the winter is coming sooner than we think...and with it, hot stove season. Here’s a look at the biggest free agents this offseason and what we might see go down when baseball hits the Winter Meetings in Vegas.
• Our own Anthony Spaulding made the cases for the NL Silver Slugger candidates at each position.
• Our Andersen Pickard took a look at the teams that under-performed relative to expectations this season and what went wrong to cause those disappointing seasons.
• There are quite a few legitimate contenders in the National League this year, so Anthony Spaulding went through the obvious candidates for NL Manager of the Year.