They say you should keep your friends close and your enemies closer - but in Major League Baseball, you rarely trade with them. For the Mets and Phillies, sharing the National League East means sharing a bitter, decades spanning geographic animosity. Due to the fact that they are locked in an eternal struggle for division dominance, GMs are hesitant to orchestrate a major trade. But when they do, it's an internal structural shift that sends shockwaves up and down I-95. How do you cheer a...

The trade history between the Mets and the Detroit Tigers has been few and far between. There hasn't been any kind of transaction between the two since Yoenis Cespedes almost 11 years ago! The wire is riddled with no names (Kyle Lobstein, anyone? Kevin (not Joe) Morgan?) and very few impactful pitchers (sorry, Flushing-born Ed Glynn fans). But there have been some dingers, ropes, and taters coming off the bats of Trade Tracker players who could go yard with the best of them. July 31, 2015...

On the surface, the Mets and Cardinals now share a kind of polite, distant relationship typical of teams playing in different divisions. But scratch the surface of baseball history, and you'll find a fascinating, interconnected web of blockbuster deals, franchise-altering swaps and quiet steals of two teams that were inter-divisional heated rivals throughout the 80's. There have been over two dozen transactions between these two old foes - one that set up the 1986 World Champions. June 15,...