As the trade deadline nears, deals keep hitting the open market coming and going, but with just days left to make a move, blockbuster deals are on the horizon. As the Detroit Tigers decide weather or not to become sellers, David Price's market eagerly awaits an answer to become active or not. 

As reported earlier by Bob Nightengale of USA Today, the Toronto Blue Jays, New York Yankees, and Los Angeles Dodgers are "poised to have an all-out bidding war" in effort to acquire Price from the Tigers. It was said that the Yankees were strongly going after Cole Hamels until recent reports revealed that the club was showing more interest in bringing Price aboard as their new ace in the #1 slot of the starting rotation.

The Dodgers are a team that has been urgently seeking some new pitchers of late and clearly felt that Wednesday was for them as they went out and acquired RHP Mat Latos from the Miami Marlins alongside 1B Michael Morse. As reported multiple times after the completion of the deal, the club is still considering bringing along another reliable starter similar to Price as the rotation continues to be derailed by injuries.

As for the Blue Jays, they had a rather active 2014 offseason as they went out to sign four-time All-Star catcher Russell Martin to a five-year deal as they continue to seek the right pieces in effort of building a winning team for the 2015 postseason.

In terms of pre-deadline transactions, the club was pretty silent until early Monday morning when the club made a rather shocking move to say the least, sending SS Jose Reyes, RHP's Jeff Hoffman, Miguel Castro, and Jeff Tinoco to Denver in exchange for SS Troy Tulowitzki and RHP LaTroy Hawkins. Prior to the deal, the club was ultimately seeking a starting pitcher like Price and are continuing to monitor him as time continues to fly by with Friday vastly approaching. 

Out of the three teams, the Blue Jays are ultimately in the best shape in terms of their farm system even after losing some key players in the Tulo trade. The Dodgers have some guys who could make a deal possible but are not in as good of shape as Toronto, and they continue to seek an elite starting pitcher. According to a report from Joel Sherman of the New York Post, the Yankees do not want to part with their top prospects, which would be a mandatory step for a deal if they would like to add Price to their struggling rotation. 

We will just have to wait and see who goes where when the bidding war gets the go-ahead to do so, determining where Price goes, and possibly who may end up with Hamels, the Philadelphia Phillies' ace.