MLB Rumors: Phillies in on OF, Red Sox spurn calls, Padres avoiding trade

MLB Rumors: Phillies, Blue Jays, Giants competing for Teoscar Hernández

The Mariners were busy on Monday, trading Paul Sewald to the Diamondbacks and AJ Pollock to the Giants. It does not sound like the front office is going to get a break going into the final hours of the MLB trade deadline either.

Trade rumors around outfielder Teoscar Hernández picked up on Monday with Jon Morosi of MLB Network tweeting that “a trade is increasingly likely before 6 pm ET tomorrow.”

The interested parties are now on notice, including the Phillies, Blue Jays and Giants, along with at least another few teams that went unnamed.

Hernández is an attractive option for teams like Philadelphia, Toronto and San Francisco because of his power. He’s hit 16 home runs this season. However, he’s also a strikeout machine, leading all of baseball in that metric with 141. Those whiffs are contributing to a career-worst 94 OPS+ this season.

Then again, he’s not so far removed from an All-Star season with the Blue Jays in 2021. So it’s a race to the finish to see which hopeful can beat out the rest by the deadline.