The Cleveland Guardians and San Diego Padres have been linked to a major trade ahead of the MLB trade deadline.

The current trade market for starting pitching doesn’t look great, so the Padres might be able to get an attractive return for Snell, who has a 0.86 ERA in his last seven starts.

Murphy has 16 home runs and a .523 slug rate heading into the All-Star break. Drake Baldwin, 24, could lead the Braves to weigh offers for Murphy, who’s owed about $50 million through 2028. Trading with the Braves last year, Preller saved $5.5 million by dealing Ray Kerr and Matt Carpenter to Atlanta. Kerr’s elbow later gave out.

It’s nearly decision time. The July 31 Trade Deadline is less than two weeks away, and while some teams are still figuring out where they stand, we have a good idea of how most clubs plan to play it.

For the San Diego Padres and their famously unpredictable general manager, an important piece of intelligence should emerge around midday Tuesday, a few hours before the 3 p.m. PT trade deadline.

Padres should go for it at the trade deadline – so long as they don’t deal away top prospects Padres should find out the trade value of Josh Hader, Blake Snell and Juan Soto before Tuesday’s ...