Use this as your reference chart for everything you might need for the upcoming trade season
As we enter the trading season, this post represents a ton of links to rivals and their resources as we wait and watch for the Atlanta Braves to bolster their roster for the stretch run. As links are updated, we will attempt to keep this up-to-date with those changes so that it can be helpful for the long term.
The reason for this post is to make it easier (hopefully) to obtain baseball industry information by having access to things at your fingertips. That’s especially important for those of us trying to research things like prospect list, 40-man roster status and much (much) more.
Trade season (both now and in December) simply makes the need for such resources all the more clear. So I decided to share many of the “go-to” places that I use.
Jump Links to MLB Division Pages
- FanSided: CallToThePen.com, links to all 30 FS Team sites
- MLB.com
- Baseball Savant / Statcast search
- MLB Pipeline, Top 100 prospects overall
- MLB Pipeline, Top Draft prospects
- MLB Pipeline, Top International prospects
- ESPN.com MLB Scoreboard
- ESPN.com MLB main standings page (has internal links to other ways to see standings, Wild Card standings, splits, team-vs-team grid, and more.)
- MLB Trade Rumors
- Baseball America (subscription required for most new content)
- Baseball Prospectus and their playoff odds
- Baseball-reference.com MLB hitting, pitching and fielding ranks (individual; subscp. reqd.)
- Baseball-reference.com MLB hitting, pitching and fielding ranks (team; subscp. reqd.)
- Fangraphs.com MLB hitting, pitching, and fielding ranks (individual)
- Fangraphs.com MLB hitting, pitching and fielding ranks (team)
- COTS Baseball Contracts (main page)
- Standings on any date (baseball-reference.com)
- Daily Batting vs. Pitcher (fantasy BB; rotowire.com)
- General Batter vs. Pitcher (MLB.com)
- BrooksBaseball.net… all kinds of charts and graphs on pitcher/hitter/umpire performance. Awesome resources here.
- MLB Barrel Alert and Home Run Tracker
- MLB Replays (whether we agree or not)
- Twitter links for National MLB reporters:
- Ken Rosenthal
- Jon Paul Morosi
- Jeff Passan
- Jon Heyman
- Jerry Crasnick
- Buster Olney
- Jesse Sanchez
- Jayson Stark
- Jim Bowden
- Joel Sherman
- Tim Kurkjian
- Bob Nightengale
- Chris Cotillo
- Kyle Glaser
- JJ Cooper
MLB.com:
- Mark Feinsand
- Jim Callis (prospects/draft/minors watcher)
- Jonathan Mayo (prospects/draft/minors watcher)
- Minor League Baseball
40-Man Rosters*
- Angels
- Astros
- Athletics
- Blue Jays
- Braves
- Brewers
- Cardinals
- Cubs
- DBacks
- Dodgers
- Giants
- Indians
- Mariners
- Marlins
- Mets
- Nationals
- Orioles
- Padres
- Phillies
- Pirates
- Rangers
- Rays
- Red Sox
- Reds
- Rockies
- Royals
- Tigers
- Twins
- White Sox
- Yankees
* – of note: the 40-man roster links here name those actually counting against the 40-man limit. If you are interested in those on the extended (60-day) Disabled List or other categories that are not included here, then please refer to the individual team links. There is a Tab you can select from the right side of each Transactions Page link that will provide that information; those MLB.com references should also be recognized as the “official” lists.
Also: it is not known just how quickly the B-R.com 40-man charts are updated. Those ‘official’ team links will typically be the most up-to-date, though it can be difficult to discern exactly how many players are on the 40-man list at a given time without careful counting.