The New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers and Baltimore Orioles are among six teams pursuing the same All-Star closer as the MLB trade deadline nears.
Every year at the Major League Baseball trade deadline, it happens: the closer on a bad team becomes a coveted trade target for a lesser role on a better team.This year, the plot surrounding Marlins closer Tanner Scott is a little more complicated, but the upshot is the same: contending teams are lining up their prospects to acquire the left-handed pitcher, who this year made his first All-Star team a few days shy of his 30th birthday.
The Orioles would love to have the option of replacing Kimbrel with Scott to bolster a bullpen that came into the season without All-Star closer Felix Bautista, who's still recovering from Tommy John surgery.The Dodgers are in a similar position. Although they lead their division , they recently demoted closer Evan Phillips and have used a rotating cast of closers in his place.
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