{"id":18893,"date":"2015-07-27T09:25:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T08:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=18893"},"modified":"2015-07-27T09:26:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T08:26:23","slug":"mlb-this-week-trade-deadline-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=18893","title":{"rendered":"MLB this Week: Trade deadline approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp-content\/CovMLBUK2014.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17885\" src=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp-content\/CovMLBUK2014.jpg\" alt=\"CovMLBUK2014\" width=\"220\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;ve reached the point in the season when games are played under the shadow of\u00c2\u00a0trade rumours as the non-waiver trade deadline approaches.<\/p>\n<p>Nowhere was that more evident than at Wrigley Field on Saturday where the Philadelphia Phillies&#8217; pitcher Cole Hamels took to the mound amid an avalanche of rumours that it could be his last start for the team. The no-hitter he pitched will be remembered for a long time &#8211; not least as the trade deadline approaches every year &#8211; as it was one of those stories that sport has a habit of creating.<\/p>\n<p>There are games starting before midnight UK time on Wednesday and Thursday this week and you can be sure that the broadcasts will be talking about trades &#8211; or possible trades &#8211; as they go along.<\/p>\n<p>All times are in BST.<\/p>\n<h2>Monday 27 July<\/h2>\n<p>No early games<\/p>\n<h2>Tuesday 28 July<\/h2>\n<p>No early games<\/p>\n<h2>Wednesday 29 July<\/h2>\n<p>17.10. Kansas City at Cleveland (Guthrie &#8211; Kluber) <strong>*BT Sport\/ESPN<\/strong><br \/>\n17.10. Detroit at Tampa Bay (Verlander &#8211; Archer)<br \/>\n18.10. Pittsburgh at Minnesota (Liriano &#8211; Santana)<strong> *MLB.com Free Game<\/strong><br \/>\n19.20. Colorado at Chicago Cubs (Butler &#8211; Lester)<br \/>\n20.40. Arizona at Seattle (Corbin &#8211; Hernandez)<br \/>\n20.45. Milwaukee at San Francisco (Friers &#8211; Peavy)\u00c2\u00a0<strong>*BT Sport\/ESPN<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Thursday 30 July<\/h2>\n<p>17.10. San Diego at NY Mets (Cashner &#8211; Niese)<br \/>\n17.10. Washington at Miami (Scherzer &#8211; Haren)\u00c2\u00a0<strong>*MLB.com Free Game,\u00c2\u00a0*BT Sport\/ESPN<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Friday 31 July<\/h2>\n<p>No early games<\/p>\n<p><em>All of these games are available to watch or listen to live via an <a href=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=18630\">MLB.TV subscription<\/a>. TV coverage of MLB comes courtesy of the BT Sport and ESPN channels and these are highlighted above, as are any games that are available to view online for free via MLB.com. The above list of games just shows those starting before midnight UK time. The full schedule of MLB games can be found on <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/mlb\/schedule\/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">MLB.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve reached the point in the season when games are played under the shadow of trade rumours as the non-waiver trade deadline approaches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[82,532,535,70,553,66],"class_list":["post-18893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball-coverage","category-mlb-2","tag-bst-guide","tag-bt-sport","tag-espn","tag-gamedayaudio","tag-mlb-2","tag-mlb-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18893"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18897,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18893\/revisions\/18897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}