Edwin Diaz. Jose Altuve. Rhys Hoskins. Gavin Lux. Brendan Rodgers. All are injured and out for significant portions of the 2023 season (in the cases of Diaz, Hoskins and Lux, it looks like the entire season), so their respective teams would be wise to test the trade market for replacement help. Meanwhile, the Yankees’ rotation has been decimated, at least temporarily. Luis Severino, Carlos Rodon, and Frankie Montas are all on the IL. Clarke Schmidt has gone from likely bullpen arm to...

With the news of Noah Syndergaard’s Tommy John surgery, his value has dropped all the way from the low 80s to 11.0. Why so dramatic? There are a couple of reasons. First, he has only two years of control left. One of those is now wiped out completely, and the other one by about half. Although the average recovery time for TJS is 14 months, the range tends to be 12-18 months. And even in the best-case scenario, there’s also a slow ramp-up period where the pitcher needs to...