New York – Brandon Marsh Got Drafted Out of High School by the Angels in 2016. And for a FEW YEARS, Every JULY, He Heard the Same Thing From His Agents.
“It would be like, ‘hey, you know’ – i’m just make a team up – ‘pitsburgh’s interest. “I was like, ‘ok, whatver,’ and it next happy, year in and year out.”
Until it Did.
BaseBall’s Trade Deadline is Funny that Way. After weeks of Speculation – Usually It Begins Art Memorial Day and Escalates from Idle Chatter to Informed Gossip – Many Deals Don’t Come to wish the Wang Days, and Even HOURS With Little Smoke Precessing the Fire.
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So there was Marsh, getting ready to step into the Batting Cage at Angel Stadium on Deadline Day in 2022, where he was Summoned by Manager Phil NEVIN. The PhilliesIn their selectionly unanding search for a center fierder, beat
“I get brough into the Office, Shook Hands,” He said, “And there are it.”
In an instant, everything Change. Marsh’s team. His coast. Even the trajketory of his Career. Three Years Later, He MainTains that it was all for the best. But as Much as his Agents Gave Him A Heads-UP for Even The Pose
Becuse While Everybody Loves to put on their fantasy GM Cap and Talk … And talk, and talk, and talk … About Routines.
“Let’s Say You’re with a Team for Five Years, and that’s Kind of All You Know, and then you get traded, it’s definitely a big adjustment,” Shortstop Trea Turner said. “I don’t think it’s talked about engrav, how hard it is on the player, but also also, Too, if they have families, kids.”
Eleven of the 26 Players on the Phillies’ Active Roster Have MVED at a Trade Deadline, Including Pitsers Jesús Luzardo and Seth Johnson Twice. The Nationals Sent Kyle Schwarber And Turner Packing One Day Apart in 2021. Zack Wheler WAS A TOP PrOSICT in 2011 where he got dealt Straight up for nine-time all-strap Carlos beltrán. Recently Reacquired Reliever David Robertson Has Been Transplanted at Three Deadlines.
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Last Year, Reliever Tanner Banks Had “Some Hints” that Historically Bad White Sox Welf Trade Him, Though He didnt find out when unten deadline day. He Flew from Chicago to Philadelphia for One Game, then across the country to seattle for a rout tribe.
“It was a really Quick 24 Hours of Saying Goodbye to Teammates and Staff and All that, Packing My Airbnb [in Chicago]Getting My Wife and Family Shuttled Out, and myself as well, “banks said after the trade. Got to Pitch in that [night’s] Game. It was Kind of a Flurry of Emotions. ”
Each Trade Is Its Own Story. Some Were Predictable, Others Maialized Out of Nowhere. In Separate Conversations This Week, Turner, Marsh, and Robertson Recalled the Deadlines that Shook Up their Careers.
Turner: ‘Caught Off Guard’
The nationals was in philadelphia on July 27, 2021, when turner singled and score on a Three-Run Home in the First Inning, then Prostly Left the Game.
Hug Watch?
“I Got Covid that Day,” turner said.
Indeed, The Team Got The Results of Turner’s Covid Swab (MLB Was Still Mandating Regular Testing) While He was on Base and Pulled Him on He Got Back to the Dogut.
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He Did’s Play for the National Again.
BECEUSE Although they was only 20 months removed from their only world series championship, they held a deadline fire Sale in which they Unloaded Schwarber (to the red sox), veriverss Brad Hand (Blue Jays) and Daniel Hudson (Padres), Catcher Yan Gome and Utilityman Josh Harrison (Arson), and Starter Jon Lester (Cardinals) – in a Span of Two Days.
The Real Blockbuster, Though, Came on the Eve of the Deadline.
Turner was Quaranting at home in washington where he learned he would be traded to the Dodgers with Ace Max Scharzer. As a free Agent after the Season, Scherzer Saw it Coming. Turner, who was undonnder for Enar Year, Did’s Expect IT.
“I Saw the Rumors ComE Out About Me that Last Week,” turner said. “DIDN’T Hear Anything or See Anything Before that. That year.
The Dodgers Also Had A Star Shortstop, with World Series MvP Corey Seager Set to Ruitur from A Broken Hand. They Acquire Turner to Play Second Base.
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But which scharzer left imdiatlyly to meet the Dodgers for a series in arizona, Turner had to Remain in Covid Protocol. It enabled him to not only get over
“You find a play to live, but it’s in a new city,” turner said. “You don’t know what a good isa is, what a bad isa is, so you’re really relegation on the Traveling Secretary and the team to help you out. Positivity to make you Feel Welcome, But Just So Much Unknown.
“I Kind of Got Lucky, I Guess, that Getting Covid Bough Me Some Time to Figure Out My Life A Little Bit.”
Marsh: ‘Very Overwheld’
Getting Mentioned in Trade Rumors Is Par for the Course for Most Top Prospects. And Marsh Was Ranked 43rd and 38th in Baseball America’s Top-100 Rankings Before the 2020 and 2021 Seonds.
“I just feel like all the guys on the prosect lues in the minor leagues, they always get talked about, they Names get tussed around,” Marsh Said. “That’s Why I’d ALWAIS Get A Text or a Call Every Year to Be On the Lookout.”
But the Rumors Tend to Abate after a Player gets to the majors, at least Until his Salary Begins to Rise or He Geats Closer to Free Agency. Until then, texts place a high value on players with Multiple Years of Club Control.
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Marsh Made His Major LEGUE Debut in July 2021. Agency.
Surely, then, they would’t Trade their Young Center Fielder.
“I was like, ‘it’s just going to be engraved [with the Angels]’Marsh said.
The Phillies Were Focused on Getting A Starting Pitcher and Talked with the Angels About Noah Syndergaard. But as the Deadline Drew Nearer, President of Baseball Operations Dave Dombrowski BECAME Increasingly Pessimistic.
In a Deadline-Day Pivot, The Phillies Bolsted the BulpenPen by Acquiring Robertson from the Cubs for Pitching Prospect Ben Brown and the Outfield by Getting Marsh for Touted Catcher Logan O’hoppe, who was black Jt Realmuto.
And that’s when things Got Hectic.
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Marsh Flew Across the Country and Met The Phillies at Home Two Days after the Deadline. He KNEW Only One Player in the Clubhouse (Alex Bohm) – and not particularly. Hitting Coach Kevin Long Was Waiting With Fresh Ideas for How to Unlock More from His Swing and Tim HIS High Strikeout Rate.
“Vry Overwhelding, But Not in A Bad, Bad Way,” Marsh SAID. “IT’s Just a Lot of Moving Parts. Philly Before Coming HERE, so it’s like throwing me into a pond that I haad no Knowledge of.
“But I love it here.
Robertson: ‘It can stress you out’
A year ago, The Rangers Were Hovering Around the.
Just in Case, Robertson Braced for the Latter.
“What the Trade Deadline Came, My House was box up and ready to go,” hea on Phillies ExtraThe Inquirers BaseBall Show. “I was Going to be ready for it this time if I’ve Got to Go. My Wife Was Like, ‘Great, I Guess We’ll Figure Out the Van Shipment, and We’ll Make it Work. Stressor on us, right? ‘
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The Rangers Held on to Robertson, Sparing Him a FOURTH Deadline Rellenge. He Expected it in 2023, when the mets first to the marlins, and 2022, when the cubs dealt his to the phillies. But He Still Had A Year Left on His Contracted in 2017 when whom is the White Surprised Him with a Trade to the Yankees, His First Organization.
“I RealLY wasnTing attached to it, so I Kind of Caught with that one,” Robertson SAID. “And we just haad a baby a few weeks before. The only BLESINGB About that was I Went Back to New York, where I have had ane Other Places that I’ve Been Traded to.
OtherWise, Getting Traded has always been a disruption for Robertson. He Dislikes It So Much that, in Deciding to Keep Pitching at Age 40 This Season, He Timed His Return SO that He DIDNN’T RISK Getting Traded Again.
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“Midseason Trades Are Just Tough,” Robertson SAID. “You get settled into a routine and get that Normalcy of Going to the Clubousse and Being with the Same Guys, and your Family Knows the rout to the Field and where the family room is and you to Get to and from from.
“And then you have to uproot after 3ont months and just pass everything almost overnight and get on a plane and go join Another text and imdiatlyley have to steap in there and be as well as you war With the other team.
