Five Bold Predictions for the MLB Trade Deadline

1. Chris Sale to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Top Prospect Julio Urias

Blockbuster number two.

Given his team-friendly contract, extreme talent and vintage Chicago White Sox jersey antics this past weekend, Chris Sale finds himself as the best remaining asset on the trade market.

Despite the aforementioned clubhouse issues that surfaced over the weekend, the asking price on Chris Sale will be extremely high, but after the Shelby Miller trade we all witnessed this offseason, no price is too high.

One team that possesses the minor league trade chips and glaring need to acquire a pitcher of Sale’s magnitude is the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Putting Chris Sale in Dodger blue not only ensures that the Dodgers will probably win the NL West, if not certainly secure a Wild Card bid this season, it will certainly improve the Dodgers for the foreseeable future. Sale is locked up through the 2019 season, and a future rotation led by the one-two punch of Clayton Kershaw and Chris Sale will make Zack Greinke look like an afterthought.

Of course, in order to acquire Sale, the Dodgers will have to part ways with baseball’s best prospect Julio Urias, who according to Joel Sherman of the New York Post is now on the trade block.

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