Big Statis-Pro Card Trades Before Deadline - Chapman to Texas and Escobar to Angels

With the trade deadline 16 days away, it was not fun as an Astros fan to see Aroldis Chapman mowing down the Guardians for his first save as a Texas Ranger, then Eduardo Escobar deliver two hits to help the Angels rally for a wild 13-12 win against the Astros.

In our Statis-Pro game, those are the two biggest pick-ups as we follow major league trades. We all expect a bunch of trades as the August 1 deadline, but here are the five trades that moved a Statis-Pro card from one team to another already. Three are just average relief pitchers, but Chapman and Escobar have great cards. 

I took a grandson to a Brewers-Royals game and told him to watch Chapman throw well over 100 mph. He already has a GREAT PB 2-8 card in the game that will help the Rangers a lot, but in real play he has been ever better - facing 17 batters in five games and allowing only two to reach while striking out 7 with no walks, and of the 10 who made contact against him two went for hits and the other eight were out. With no runs allowed in the five games for the Rangers, his season ERA is down to 2.10.

Escobar has a great five home run card (24-28 are homers) and while almost all of the Deep drives of 31-33 were caught in the pitchers heaven where the Mets (only home run on 11-13 and fly out on 14-88) many of those are homers in the Angels park (11-54 homer, 55-88 fly out) as shown on our ballpark home run chart. The average is 11-35 homer. In fact, Escobar was not playing up to this projection with the Mets with only four homers after having a bit of decline each year from his monster 2019 when he led the league with 10 triples and added 35 homers.

Click for the free Statis-Pro Master Baseball Game. Click here for 60 of the all-time great MLB teams, or on teams of many of the all-time great players on teams by nation or state with one sheet for each team. Or click on the 2023 pitchers and 2023 batters in card form. You simply print two teams cards and then either print theaster link above and fast action cards in master link or buy the dice to start playing. 

Below we listed cards that have either changes teams or that we are not using in our game (we use players on the 40-man roster unless they go on 60-day DL) and players we had out but are now using again because they were on 60-day DL but are no longer. Even if a players has just gone to minor league rehab or moved down to 10-day DL, we start using their card again in the game.

Most injuries occur to pitchers (this a lot of "1" under position) but as you can see the first position player on the list is Boston's Yu Chang would would normally be a shortstop (thus the "6" before the dash) and occasionally 2nd base or 3rd base (thus the 4 and 5 after the dash). We also listed the OPS or ERA of each player card to give an idea on how strong the card in question is, and if they changed teams like the five above, are on the 60-day DL and thus we are not using the card, or "Use Again, Off DL" to note we were not using the card but are now using it again.

We have moved the traded cards on the google doc of the 2023 pitchers and 2023 batters in card form.

 

Card now	Pos	Player	Change in card	Card Stats	Update
ARI	1	Drey Jameson	60-day	Card ERA: 4.22	8-Jul
ATL	1	Dylan Lee (Pitch: L)	60-day	Card ERA: 3.65	30-Jun
ATL	1	Max Fried (Pitch: L)	Use Again, off DL	Card ERA: 3.58	5-Jun
ATL	1	Nick Anderson	60-day	Card ERA: 4.41	13-Jul
BAL	1	Mychal Givens	60-day	Card ERA: 4.06	1-Jul
BOS	6/45'	Yu Chang	60-day	Card OPS: 0.701	22-Jun
CIN	1	Joel Kuhnel	Hou via trade	Card ERA: 4.18	17-Jun
CIN	1	Nick Lodolo (Pitch: L)	60-day	Card ERA: 3.68	3-Jun
COL	1	Antonio Senzatela	60-day DL	Card ERA: 5.39	11-Jun
COL	1	Ryan Feltner	60-day	Card ERA: 5.45	29-May
DET	1	Matthew Boyd (Pitch: L)	60-day	Card ERA: 4.22	27-Jun
DET	1	Tyler Alexander (Pitch: L)	60-day	Card ERA: 4.26	4-Jul
DET	8/	Riley Greene (Bat: L)	Use Again, off DL	Card OPS: 0.729	31-May
KCR	1	Josh Staumont	60-day	Card ERA: 4.19	15-Jul
KCR	1	Josh Taylor (Pitch: L)	60-day	Card ERA: 3.65	4-Jul
KCR	3/	Vinnie Pasquantino (Bat: L)	60-day	Card OPS: 0.826	18-Jun
LAA	1	José Suarez (Pitch: L)	60-day	Card ERA: 4.42	20-Jun
LAA	5/46'	Eduardo Escobar (Bat: S)	NYM via Trade	Card OPS: 0.709	24-Jun
LAD	1	Dustin May	60-day	Card ERA: 3.65	23-May
LAD	87/9	Trayce Thompson	60-day	Card OPS: 0.741	11-Jun
MIA	1	Trevor Rogers (Pitch: L)	60-day	Card ERA: 3.78	14-Jun
MIA	/8H	Jonathan Davis	60-day	Card OPS: 0.633	11-Jul
NYM	1	Trevor Gott	Sea via Trade	Card ERA: 3.91	4-Jul
NYY	1	Nestor Cortes (Pitch: L)	60-day	Card ERA: 3.96	8-Jul
OAK	1	Drew Rucinski	60-day	Card ERA: 4.08	20-Jun
OAK	1	Zach Jackson	60-day	Card ERA: 3.77	21-Jun
PIT	1	Vince Velasquez	60-day	Card ERA: 4.68	23-Jun
SDP	1	Luis García	Use, off DL	Card ERA: 3.35	5-Jun
SDP	/2	Luis Campusano	Use, off DL	Card OPS: 0.673	2-Jun
SEA	1	Penn Murfee	60-day	Card ERA: 3.91	5-Jul
SEA	1	Robbie Ray (Pitch: L)	60-day	Card ERA: 3.77	12-Jun
STL	78/	Tyler O'Neill	Use Again, off DL	Card OPS: 0.779	6-Jul
TB	1	Robert Stephenson	Pit via trade	Card ERA: 4.12	2-Jun
Tex	1	Aroldis Chapman (Pitch: L)	KC via trade	Card ERA: 3.45	30-Jun
TEX	1	Jacob deGrom	60-day	Card ERA: 2.65	5-Jun