The New York Mets significantly overhauled their bullpen on Wednesday, reshaping their set of relievers ahead of the MLB trade deadline.

With two trades, they beefed up their setup corps for closer Edwin Diaz. But both deals were costly. All-in-all, New York sent six prospects out to bring in Tyler Rogers and Ryan Helsley. We're going to combine them into one big deal for the purpose of grading the moves.

In the first deal, the Mets landed Rogers from the San Francisco Giants in exchange for righty Jose Butto, outfield prospect Drew Gilbert, and right-handed pitching prospect Blade Tidwell. Butto is a solid relief arm, while Tidwell has made his big league debut this season, and Gilbert is close. All have their warts, but are also likely to provide solid value.

In the second, the Mets sent three prospects to the Cardinals: shortstop Jesus Baez, right-hander Nate Dohm, and right-hander Frank Elissalt. Baez was New York's No. 8 prospect, and the 20-year-old has shown some serious power in A-ball, while also having a feel for hitting and a strong arm in the field. Dohm is New York's No. 14 prospect, and the 22-year-old has a 2.62 ERA in 11 appearances (10 starts) at High-A ball this year. Elissalt was a 19th-round pick in 2024 and is 4-5 with a 3.04 ERA in 20 appearances across two levels this season.

New York Mets: B

The Mets certainly upgraded their bullpen, which was a need, but both players they received were rentals, and they gave up six players to get them. On top of that, neither of the guys they landed will be closing, though both probably can in a pinch.

Helsley is the reigning NL Reliever of the Year, but hasn't reached the same highs this season. He's 3-1 with a 3.00 ERA, a 1.39 WHIP, and 41 strikeouts in 36 innings. He has walked 14 and allowed 36 hits in those 36 innings, while also blowing five saves in 26 chances. He dealt with a toe injury early in the season but has been healthy lately. He'll be an excellent setup man for Diaz.

Rogers is enjoying what might be his best season in the big leagues. He's 4-3 with a 1.80 ERA, 0.86 WHIP, and 38 strikeouts against only four walks in 50 innings. The 34-year-old submariner just gets people out, though his 2.68 xFIP suggests some regression is likely to come. He's still a really nice pickup for the relief corps.

The amount the Mets gave up and the fact that both guys are rentals hold these deals back from getting a better grade.

The Diamondbacks placed star Ketel Marte on the restricted list on Friday days after the second baseman's Scottsdale home was burglarized. The incident happened during the All-Star break this week, reportedly on Tuesday night when Marte was in Atlanta for the All-Star Game.

It's been previously reported that Marte requested to have some personal days off after the break-in happened. It's unknown how long Marte will be out of the Diamondbacks' lineup. The Diamondbacks begin a three-game home series vs. the St. Louis Cardinals on Friday night.

The original robbery report said no one was home when the incident occurred, and "numerous personal items and jewelry" were taken. An investigation into the matter is currently ongoing.

The incident is just the latest in a series of recent robberies involving well-known athletes across multiple leagues, where players' homes have been repeatedly targeted while they are traveling for events or away games. Among those impacted are NFL stars Patrick Mahomes and Joe Burrow, as well as basketball bigwigs Luka Doncic and Bobby Portis.

Through 68 games this season, Marte's averaged .290/.394/.567 with 73 hits, 52 runs, 40 RBIs and 19 home runs.

شارك محمد صلاح في الشوط الثاني من مباراة ليفربول وسندرلاند، وقد كانت الأجواء مليئة بالترقب مع دخوله وتوجهت الأنظار للنجم المصري لإنقاذ الموقف.

ومع ذلك وجد صلاح نفسه يواجه صعوبات حيث فشل في تمرير الكرات العرضية لزملائه، وقد أصبح ليفربول يخطط لمستقبله بدونه في السنوات القادمة.

وجاء إنقاذ ليفربول في المباراة عن طريق فلوريان فيرتز وليس محمد صلاح من خسارة أخرى بتسديدة غيرت اتجاهها قبل عشر دقائق من نهاية المباراة، بعد أن ظهر الألماني يلعب دوراً محورياً وليس النجم المصري في لمحة لما يتوقع حدوثه في المستقبل.

وأفادت “ديلي ستار” البريطانية أن محمد صلاح ظهر عاجزاً عن تقديم أداء يذكر في اللحظات الحاسمة، بعد أن كان ملكاً مصرياً ساحراً مع ليفربول.

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وكان صلاح قد أنقذ ليفربول كثيراً في السنوات الأخيرة، وسجل أهدافاً لا تحصى، واخترق دفعات الخصوم وكان القوة الدافعة وراء نجاح الفريق.

ويبدو أن محمد صلاح قد أصبح عبئاً على ليفربول ومدربه آرني سلوت الذي لم يتوصل لطريقة ما لحل ذلك، بعد أن جلس المصري على دكة البدلاء في آخر مباراتين على التوالي.

ويبدو أن قرار سلوت بجلوس صلاح على دكة البدلاء يشكل حل مؤقت لمشكلة طويلة الأمد، وربما يتنفس مدرب ليفربول الصعداء مع اقتراب موعد مغادرة المصري للمشاركة في كأس الأمم الأفريقية بدءاً من 15 ديسمبر وقد يغيب لأكثر من شهر.

وتنتشر عدة تكهنات بأن محمد صلاح قد يكون خاض مباراته الأخيرة مع بطل الدوري الإنجليزي، وأنه يخطط للانتقال للدوري السعودي في سوق الانتقالات الشتوية المقبلة.

ويلتزم صلاح الصمت بشأن خططه المستقبلية، وقد يكون يفكر بهدوء في خطواته التالية في الأشهر الأخيرة، ومع ذلك فإنه يجب أن يواجه الانتقادات المباشرة، وعلى الرغم من أنه أسطورة راسخة في ليفربول لكن لا يمكن إنكار أن إرثه معرض لخطر التشويه.

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O técnico Fábio Carille aprovou a ida de Neymar à Vila Belmiro na vitória do Santos contra o Palmeiras, pela partida de ida da final do Paulistão.

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Para Carille, a presença de Neymar ajudou a tornar o clima na Vila Belmiro mais hostil e complicado para o Palmeiras. Ele também valorizou a presença de Pepe e Clodoaldo, ídolos do Peixe que trouxeram a taça do Paulistão ao gramado.

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– É um nome grande no futebol mundial, é craque e diferente. Quando fiquei sabendo disso gostei da ideia, ainda mais para incendiar o estádio. Passou rápido pelo vestiário,e preferi assim. Pode muito oba-oba, mexe com pessoas, cara de Copa do Mundo e vencedor. Estava Pepe e Clodoaldo também. Gerações e histórias, isso só engrandece a história e motiva muito. Incendiou o torcedor – disse o treinador durante coletiva.

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Carille também indicou que não pretende mudar o sistema tático do Santos para jogar no Allianz Parque. Após derrota na fase de grupos jogando na casa do Palmeiras, o treinador do Peixe criticou o gramado sintético do rival, que passou por reformas.

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– Muito difícil. Chegamos aqui assim e fazer algo diferente é arriscado. Acho melhor melhorar a parte ofensiva e defensiva em cima do adversário que vamos jogar do que mudar o sistema. Jogadores podem sentir desconfortáveis e isso não é bom para nós – ponderou.

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A grande decisão entre Santos e Palmeiras será no domingo (7), às 18h, no Allianz Parque. O Peixe pode empatar no próximo final de semana que ainda leva o título do Paulistão. Em caso de vitória da equipe de Abel Ferreira por um gol de diferença, o duelo será decidido nos pênaltis.

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The international break is often met with groans across the Premier League, and for Chelsea, who are still grinning after their last-minute win against Liverpool last weekend, they might have wished to carry that form right over to the coming weeks.

However, the injury update on the Cole Palmer front has only added to the frustration, with the Blues talisman’s injury set to rule him out for another month, carrying into November. It’s worth we are merely 28 days away from the final international sojourn of the 2025 calendar.

But Enzo Maresca is fashioning a team of many parts, and Chelsea are no longer a one-trick pony. Signings have been made, and many have shown promising signs over the past several months.

Among them, Joao Pedro, who looks like a real star in the final third for the Londoners.

Joao Pedro's start to life at Chelsea

Pedro looked set for a move to Newcastle United this summer, but then Chelsea swept in and signed the Brazilian for £60m, ending his two-year stay on the south coast with Brighton & Hove Albion.

The 24-year-old is a versatile and hard-working forward who has been praised in the past as an “insane dribbler” by analyst Ben Mattinson. Sofascore note that he’s yet to miss a big chance in the Premier League, so everything’s there to suggest BlueCo have made a fine signing with this one.

With two goals and three assists from nine matches in all competitions this season, Pedro is settling nicely into Maresca’s system; though he will be eager to return to prolific form, having blanked across his past five games in all competitions.

Still, he’s playing well, and considering some of the figures thrown about this summer, with Liverpool breaking the British transfer record to sign Alexander Isak for £125m, this is actually a shrewd piece of business.

However, the Stamford Bridge side sealed a signature this summer who might be shrewder still.

Chelsea's jackpot signing

Many signings have been made at Chelsea since Todd Boehly first took a seat in the boardroom, but the initial £29m paid for Estevao Willian might be the pick of the big bunch.

He tapped home Chelsea’s winner against Liverpool on Sunday, and he oozes confidence and style when on the ball, 18 years old but at peace with the rigours and scrutiny of the Premier League.

Already at this nascent stage of his career, Estevao has cultivated a wealth of experience on the senior stage, and there’s a prolificness to his play that tells of a successful future at the highest level.

Estevao’s Career by Position
Position	Apps	Goals (assists)
Right winger	63	23 (12)
Attacking midfield	11	2 (2)
Centre-forward	3	2 (1)
Data via Transfermarkt

After all, the aforementioned Mattinson has provided his take, saying the Brazil international might even be a “future Ballon d’Or winner”, such is his quality.

For Brazil, he is performing at a prodigious rate. Only yesterday across the globe did he bag twice as Carlo Ancelotti’s Seleção side thrashed South Korea 5-0.

Given the potential growth both financially and on the field, Chelsea chiefs must be delighted that they won the race, especially since Chelsea beat off vested competition from Barcelona and Real Madrid to seal the youth’s signature in 2024, ahead of his arrival from Palmeiras several months ago.

Is the sky the limit? It might just be. Estevao is the real deal; he has scored and assisted in the Premier League already.

In hindsight, this might prove to be the signing of the summer. Liverpool landed a world-class striker in Isak, but they paid a staggering sum. Isak, 26, has yet to get going at Anfield, one goal and one assist across six games.

Estevao matches that, and he’s playing with verve and gusto. He’s playing like the superstar in the making that Chelsea know they have landed.

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Liverpool are now seen as a genuine destination for a “phenomenal” player who will be hoping to shine at next summer’s World Cup.

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The Reds may have returned to winning ways at Eintracht Frankfurt in midweek, but they have to show that it wasn’t just a flash in the pan against weak opposition.

Liverpool make the trip to Brentford in the Premier League on Saturday night, which has the potential to be a huge test, and the champions will have to make do without some influential players.

Alisson is still missing in goal, with his world-class presence a big loss, while Jeremie Frimpong is also definitely out after injuring his hamstring in Frankfurt.

Ryan Gravenberch and Alexander Isak are also unlikely to be available for Liverpool’s trip to west London, so picking up all three points away to a Brentford team with two wins in their last three matches won’t be easy.

The Reds will continue to eye new signings, with a move for Marc Guehi expected to be on the agenda again, but he is not the only England international on the shopping list.

Liverpool a viable destination for England star

Speaking to TEAMtalk, insider Dean Jones said Liverpool are now a “possible” destination for Nottingham Forest midfielder Elliot Anderson.

“I don’t think Anderson would close the door on returning to Newcastle and there is no issue around that specifically, but the thing that makes me question how likely it is regards the other options he is going to have. At the moment Man United, Liverpool and Man City all seem possible destinations for him and when those sorts of doors open up, is he going to go back to somewhere he has already played?

“As a player you surely always want to feel a sense of progression, so Newcastle are going to have to be in a very strong position if they are to enter a battle to sign him and then win it. I have to say I don’t think the Man United move is quite as nailed on as some people seem to make out.

“While he is on their list I get the impression there are still some reservations about whether he is the ideal fit as a midfield partner for Bruno Fernandes. That’s something they continue to explore.”

The £40,000-a-week Anderson is enjoying the best spell of his career, becoming a regular starter for England at the base of the midfield alongside Declan Rice.

Appearances

8

Starts

8

Minutes played

720

Tackles per game

2.8

Key passes per game

1.3

Pass completion rate

88.5%

Goals

0

Assists

1

The 22-year-old is playing with such poise in front of the defence, but also showcasing an ability to get forward, with England teammate Reece James recently calling him a “phenomenal” player.

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TORONTO — When it was over, when after 162 regular-season games and another 15 in the playoffs and now two excruciating innings, the Dodgers won Game 7, 5–4, to repeat as World Series champions, the man who won the game raced to the mound to grab the man who saved it. 

It was Will Smith, the catcher, who launched the 11th-inning home run that stunned the sellout crowd of 44,713 at the Rogers Centre and gave the Dodgers their first lead of the night. But it was Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the Game 6 starter who got eight outs in Game 7 on no days’ rest, who gave him the chance. Twenty-five hours after he threw 96 pitches in Game 6, an outing that followed back-to-back complete games, Yamamoto all but forced his way into the game and threw 34 devastating pitches. 

Manager Dave Roberts had tried not to use him at all, and then he tried to remove him after his second inning on Saturday. “Daijoubu,” Yamamoto said. 

“It’s unheard of,” said Roberts, who struggled to explain how Yamamoto could possibly have done this. “I think that there’s a mind component, there’s a delivery, which is a flawless delivery, and there’s just an unwavering will. I just haven’t seen it [elsewhere]. I really haven’t.”

So the manager let him go back out and close the door for a team that just kept propping it open. The Blue Jays were two outs away from ending a 32-year World Series drought when an unlikely hero emerged. In a game that featured Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman and Vladimir Guerrero Jr., it was Dodgers glove-first second baseman Miguel Rojas, playing in his second game in three weeks, who lined a solo home run over the left field wall to tie the game. 

Each team loaded the bases with one out—the Blue Jays in the bottom of the ninth, the Dodgers in the top of the 10th—and failed to score. Smith, dragging himself around the field after catching all 72 innings of this epic World Series, dragged the Dodgers ahead. 

It almost wasn’t enough. Guerrero, the face of a franchise and the face of a nation, doubled to lead off the bottom of the 11th. Isiah Kiner-Falefa sacrificed him to third. Addison Barger worked a walk. But Yamamoto broke Alejandro Kirk’s bat with one of his signature splitters, and Betts, the shortstop snagged the easy chopper, stepped on second base and fired to first for the double play. The Dodgers, who became the first team since the 2000 Yankees to repeat, were on the field almost before the Blue Jays understood what had just happened to them. 

Smith tackled Yamamoto from behind. Their teammates raced in from the dugout and the bullpen to join them. They jumped up and down on exhausted legs and hugged one another with spent arms and screamed with hoarse throats.

Of course this World Series came down to extra innings in Game 7. It could not be contained by the laws of physics, the columns of scorebooks or even, at times, by the customs of human decency. At one point in Game 7, the only daylight between the teams came when the umpires pushed the players apart. Counting the 18-inning Game 3, this was the first Fall Classic that featured more than eight games’ worth of baseball. Only three of the games were truly close—Games 1, 2, 4 and 5 were decided by an average of five runs—but neither team ever seemed overmatched. 

Still this one was loopier than most. The Dodgers used all four of their World Series starting pitchers, two—Yamamoto and Tyler Glasnow—on no days’ rest. The Blue Jays used three of theirs. The fourth, Kevin Gausman, said he would have been available had the game continued.

And for a while it appeared it might go forever. The Blue Jays never seemed to go away. Twice the Dodgers won in what should have been backbreaking fashion—the 18-inning Game 3, and then the wild double play to snuff out a rally in Game 6—but Toronto just kept fighting. It won Game 4, and it nearly won this one. 

Los Angeles’s roster boasts 44 All-Star Game appearances and 22 World Series rings. For the Blue Jays, those figures are 29 and three. The Dodgers’ record $328 million payroll has made some observers question whether they are ruining baseball. The Blue Jays were not interested in narratives, just in wins. 

Game 7 pitted two Hall of Famers against one another, one who had been preparing for this start all series and one who learned for sure he would get it after Game 6. 

When manager John Schneider told Max Scherzer he would start Game 3, Scherzer said, “O.K., so 3 and 7.” The assignment made him, at 41 years and 97 days, the oldest pitcher to start a winner-take-all World Series game. When Schneider walked by him after Game 6, which the Blue Jays lost on a brutal game-ending double play, he said, Scherzer looked “ready to kill somebody.” Schneider added, “So you trust him to be ready for this environment.”

The Dodgers trust Shohei Ohtani as well, although they were not sure what to expect from him. After Game 6, they reviewed their options. Glasnow, the Game 3 starter, had gotten the final three outs that night. Blake Snell, who started Games 1 and 5, would be on short rest; Yamamoto, who started Games 2 and 6, would be on even shorter rest. Despite playing 18 innings—and reaching base a postseason record nine times—in Game 3, then receiving IV fluids and pitching six innings 17 hours later in Game 4, Ohtani assured them that he was available on the mound for Game 6. (This is a man who, offered the chance to come out of Game 3 in the 11th due to leg cramps that had him hobbling around the bases, declined, and who, asked in the sixth inning of Game 4 how many more frames he could go, said three.) 

He might have been a more traditional option in relief. But there is nothing traditional about Ohtani. The Dodgers chose to start him largely because of the rule that allows him to remain in the game as the DH once he comes off the mound—but only if he starts the game. If he relieves, when he exits as a hitter, he exits as a pitcher. Between that regulation and the logistical nightmare of getting him to the bullpen to warm up in between at-bats, this pathway was the obvious choice. But Ohtani, still recovering from surgery to repair his left elbow, had only started on three days’ rest once in his career, and that came when rain cut the first outing to two innings and 30 pitches. 

“This is Game 7,” Roberts said. “There’s a lot of things that people haven’t done, and you’ve just got to trust your players and try to win a baseball game.”

Ohtani opened the game with a single, took second on a grounder to first and took third on a deep fly ball to center field. Betts grounded out to end the frame, which gave Ohtani two and a half minutes to dart into the dugout, remove his batting armor, grab his glove, huddle with pitching coach Mark Prior and bench coach Danny Lehman, and take the mound for his six warm-up pitches. Just under five minutes—and, it must be said, two and a half minutes after the rules stipulate—after he ran out Betts’s grounder, Ohtani threw ball one to George Springer. Springer, visibly wincing on every swing as he managed a right-side injury that cost him two games, singled but was retired on a strike-’im-out-throw-’im-out double play to end the inning. 

Ohtani caught a break in the second inning. His secondary command was spotty, so he had to lean on his fastball. He walked Bo Bichette to lead off the frame and allowed a single to Addison Barger. With two outs, Ernie Clement knocked a single to right field, but the hobbled Bichette had to hold at third. Andrés Giménez waved at an inside fastball to end the threat. 

Springer led off the next inning with another single. When Nathan Lukes bunted him over and he took third on a wild pitch, the Dodgers elected to walk Guerrero intentionally. That brought up Bichette. The first pitch he saw was a slider that slid right into the middle of the zone. As 44,713 roaring fans shook the Rogers Centre, Springer and Guerrero each raised their hands and jogged home. Bichette slowly limped after them. 

Bichette knew he would be a free agent after the World Series ended. He knew aggravating the injury could hurt his long-term earning potential. He did not care. “It’s the World Series,” he said. “So none of that stuff really matters.”

The homer ended Ohtani’s night on the mound after 2 ⅓ innings pitched. The Dodgers manufactured a run in the top of the fourth. In the bottom of the inning, 194-pound floppy-haired lefty Justin Wrobleski buzzed 5’ 11” shortstop Andrés Giménez with an inside fastball. On the next pitch, he hit him. The benches—and the bullpens—cleared. The umpires issued warnings. The Dodgers scored another run in the top of the sixth; the Blue Jays did the same in the bottom of the frame. With his sixth-inning single, Clement set a record with his 10th multi-hit game this postseason; with his eighth-inning double, he set a record with his 30th hit. 

To cap one of the finest offensive postseasons of all time—he had more hits this postseason (28) than swings and misses (25) and more homers (eight) than strikeouts (seven)—Guerrero dazzled with his glove. He made a diving stop and flipped to first in the first; snared a rope just beyond the foul line to end the fourth; and started a nifty double play to end the seventh. He roared after each one as if he’d hit the game-winning homer. 

Both pitching staffs were topsy-turvy after such a grind of a series. Snell got four outs. The Blue Jays threw Louis Varland, presumably pitching in long sleeves to keep his right arm attached to his body, who set a postseason record by appearing in his 15th game (Toronto played 18); Chris Bassitt, the starter turned relief ace; and Trey Yesavage, the 22-year-old pitching on two days’ rest after yet another postseason masterpiece in Game 5, who allowed a home run to Max Muncy in the eighth inning that brought the game within one. Then came Rojas, and then came Smith.

And most of all, then came Yamamoto, who was named World Series MVP. The Dodgers did not, as it turned out, ruin baseball. In fact, they gave us more of it.