The Windup Newsletter ⚾ | This is The Athletic’s MLB newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Windup directly in your inbox.Our Trade Deadline Big Board (1.0) has arrived! Plus: Buster Posey comes up short in San Francisco, Pete Crow-Armstrong was called out in a way I’ve never seen before, the Phillies had a wild comeback and MLB players let us know where they do (and don’t) want to play.I’m Levi Weaver — welcome to The Windup!Trade Deadline: Big Board 1.0 is hereI’m mostly going to post the link and get out of the way here, but version 1.0 of our Trade Deadline Big Board is out today, featuring our top 50 trade targets, starting with No. 1 Tarik Skubal.Red dots mean a player is unlikely to be traded, green means they are likely and yellow … look, you know how colors work.You might see a lot of yellow dots next to AL players. As we’ve said here on a few occasions, the AL is so bad this year that a lot of sub-.500 teams are still very much in the wild-card chase. So … yellow dots.That should change in future editions of this Big Board, as bad teams keep losing and a few go on hot streaks. For now, this is a snapshot of the players we think make sense to highlight right now.Alright, I’ll leave you to it!More deadline:
Fifty players on the trading block. Plus: Buster Posey, do better
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