Teams looking to alternatives in MLB trade deadline reliever market

Not many teams are willing to pay the price for Miami’s elite closer Tanner Scott. So they are searching for other lefty relief options, a market that includes veterans Andrew Chafin (Tigers), Justin Wilson (Reds) and the Rays’ duo of Garrett Cleavinger and Colin Poche.

It is why the White Sox have conversed with multiple teams, including the Mets, about Tanner Banks, who despite turning 33 in October will not even be arbitration eligible this offseason. He is not viewed as a front-burner option but more another alternative in the market.

In 40 games this season going into Monday, Banks had a 4.21 ERA, was striking out 25.9 percent of hitters and particularly had limited lefty hitters (.505 OPS) while being beat up by righties (.846). Relievers such as Ian Hamilton and Tim Hill left the White Sox struggling and pitched better for the Yankees, for example; so perhaps there are teams that believe Banks has a yet further untapped upside.

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The Tigers scratched Jack Flaherty from making his start on Monday night as a way to guard against injury with the righty likely to be traded.

It left Detroit’s rotation with Tarik Skubal, currently the AL MVP front-runner and …

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The Tigers had a 10-man bullpen and that if is you consider Keider Montero, who joined the rotation in late June and has a 6.38 ERA, and Kenta Maeda, who was removed as a starter this month with a 7.26 ERA, as part of the rotation. Maeda was used as a length piece out of the pen on Sunday.

Reese Olson and Casey Mize are currently on the injured list.

The Tigers, 52-55 through the weekend, were in sell mode, with Flaherty, relievers Chafin and Shelby Miller and utilityman Mark Canha all in their walk year and all likely to be traded before Tuesday’s 6 p.m. deadline. Skubal remains highly doubtful to move. But even if he stays, you see how badly Detroit is going to need to find a few starters off the scrap heap, perhaps, just to finish the season.

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Justin Turner singled in his first at-bat of a doubleheader against the Orioles on Monday and finished his Blue Jays career with 14 hits in his last 24 at-bats. He was pulled from the game soon after that first-inning single because he had been traded to the Mariners.

Turner, at 39, isn’t what he used to be — his 106 OPS-plus going into Monday was his lowest since his final season with the Mets in 2013. But among the 12 Mariners who have hit most often this year that would rank third on a team that was hitting .218 (second worst in the majors) and averaging 3.85 runs per game (third worst).

It is why the Mariners traded with the Rays for Randy Arozarena, especially with Julio Rodriguez and J.P. Crawford on the IL. They will hope Turner is invigorated by a pennant race and helps the offense, especially against lefties where they were hitting a MLB-low .215 with a .668 OPS (sixth worst). Turner was .292/.793.

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