En los últimos días, hemos visto a equipos prácticamente tirar la toalla y pensar en la próxima campaña, como es el caso de los Mets de New York, quienes estaban llamados a optar por el banderín de la división del este de la liga Nacional, pero las cosas no le salieron como querían, a pesar de tener la nómina más alta de la MLB, lesiones y bajo rendimiento de esos peloteros en nómina hicieron que los metropolitanos desistieran y abandonaran la pelea por la clasificación, de allí que han comenzado a salir de peloteros con contratos millonarios, como es el caso de Max Scherzer, salen de un picher dominante, pero con avanzada edad que estaba cobrando 40 millones de dólares, y obtienen a una joven promesa, que está a pocos años de estar en la gran carpa, se trata del venezolano Luisangel Acuña, hermano de la estrella de los Bravos de Atlanta, Ronald Acuña Jr.

Sin duda alguna es un buen negocio, sales de un jugador y bajas considerablemente tus gastos y a cambio te llega un pelotero que se convierte en el segundo mejor prospecto de la organización que al paso de unos dos años podría ser tu primer bate y campo corto, tener a otro acuña en la división del este es otro dolor de cabeza para los equipos que componen dicha división y que contrarrestaría potencia a los Bravos, ya que Luisangel tiene las mismas características de su hermano, quizás un poco menos de poder para dar cuadrangulares, veo este cambio beneficioso para todas las partes involucradas.

For some people baseball is boring and they see it as not very strategic, in some cases they have compared it with other disciplines such as soccer, but if they were given the opportunity to learn more about this sport and analyze it, they could notice that it is full of strategies and much more nowadays, when statistics are present in everything, We are ending the month of July and that is when the strategies are visualized much more, since the changes of players are given with greater force, teams that abandon the battle for the classification decide to leave players with large salaries and seek players for the future and thus restructure those franchises and turn them into winners.

In recent days, we have seen teams practically throw in the towel and think about the next season, as is the case of the New York Mets, who were called to opt for the pennant of the National League East Division, but things did not go as they wanted, despite having the highest payroll in the MLB, injuries and poor performance of those players on the payroll made the metropolitans give up and abandon the fight for the classification, They have started to get rid of players with millionaire contracts, as in the case of Max Scherzer, they are leaving a dominant, but aging, player who was earning 40 million dollars, and they get a young promise, who is a few years away from being in the big top, Venezuelan Luisangel Acuña, brother of the Atlanta Braves star, Ronald Acuña Jr.

Undoubtedly it is a good deal, you get out of a player and considerably lower your expenses and in return you get a player who becomes the second best prospect of the organization that after two years could be your first bat and shortstop, having another Acuna in the East division is another headache for the teams that make up the division and that would counteract the Braves power, as Luisangel has the same characteristics of his brother, perhaps a little less power to give homers, I see this change beneficial to all parties involved.  

One of the teams with major movements in recent days has been the Texas Rangers, they have acquired the services of a pair of luxury starters, the aforementioned Max Scherzer and left-hander Jordan Montgomery from the St. Louis Cardinals, with him also comes reliever Chris Stratton to the Rangers, no doubt this team is strengthening its starting pitching where they had a significant disadvantage against their divisional rival, The Houston Astros, now have three arms of great quality, led by their ace Nathan Eovaldi, Max Scherzer and Jordan Montgomery will accompany him, with the super offense they have and now with a first level pitching, they are on the right track to leave the Astros out of the West championship for the first time in almost a decade.

Other teams so far have been somewhat timid when it comes to making transactions, New York Yankees, who are usually quite aggressive when it comes to strengthening their team have not yet made a strong move, there is still talk of Juan Soto, but the Padres have not yet decided whether to be sellers or, on the contrary, to buy and fight to the end, the same applies with Boston, The same applies to Boston, which despite having a positive record is in a very strong division, it does not seem that the robins want to fight for access to the post-season, since they left one of their best hitters as is the case of Kike Hernandez, Tampa is probably looking for one more hitter and the Orioles a player to make a difference and thus be able to withstand the onslaught of Yankees and Toronto.       

Last Wednesday was put an end to the novel that had been made around the Japanese phenomenon, Shohei Ohtani, many things were said about him, that he would go to the Yankees, then to the Dodgers and even the San Diego Padres were talked about, in the end the Angelinos of the Angels of Anaheim pronounced and removed the Samurai from the list of available players and thus decided to continue fighting to get their pass to the playoffs, The sign that they are not giving up was the acquisition of Lucas Giolito and Reynaldo Lopez, both from the Chicago White Sox, with this pair of starters they want to face this couple of months of action remaining in the regular round and give reach to the Texans and Sidereals.

The Angelinos have not only moved to improve their pitching, but they are also looking to improve their offense. Cron and the experienced and good hitter Randal Grichuk, Cron can also help in the first cushion, with this pair of players Anaheim seeks to replace the vacancies left by Anthony Rendon and Mike Trout, although the latter is about to return, with these changes this team seems to change completely, although it has a hard time the division title, has a good chance to reach the pass through a wild card, surely they will make another move before the deadline. 

Undoubtedly in the next 24 hours we will see many news related to changes, there are still quite a few names and very attractive that will surely be changed, Justin Verlander sounds to return to Houston, Juan Soto will be wanted by more than one team, Boston will probably leave some players and not to mention the teams of the American League Central Division, Detroit, Kansas City and White Sox, Eloy Jimenez is the main candidate to leave, but those who have moved the most and have improved their payrolls are the Texas Rangers and the Angelinos of the Angels of Anaheim, we will see in practice what in theory looks wonderful for these two teams in the west of the young circuit, we will dawn and we will see.