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Unusual amount of trading bases: 18 deals!
- Updated: August 2, 2016
Well, that was a wild ride, wasn’t it? Are you caught up? OK, it may take a day or two to digest it all. This flurry of trades had impact players changing teams, one after another, switching teams and pennant races.
Carlos Beltran and Matt Moore. Jay Bruce and Jonathan Lucroy. Rich Hill and Josh Reddick.
Guess what? This is how it ought to be. This is why we love it. Days like this remind us why the non-waiver Trade Deadline is so much fun. This frenetic Monday was a larger reflection of a sport in which 18 teams are within 5 1/2 games of a postseason berth.
18 trades today are most #TradeDeadline-day deals since at least 1995, surpassing 15 in 2010 and 2015. pic.twitter.com/A5LJn6iHbq
— MLB Stat of the Day (@MLBStatoftheDay) August 2, 2016
18 trades today are most #TradeDeadline-day deals since at least 1995, surpassing 15 in 2010 and 2015. pic.twitter.com/A5LJn6iHbq
There were 18 trades — involving 49 players — consummated on Monday, which is up from 15 on Deadline day a year ago, and 11 more than the seven deals that were made on the day of the 2011 non-waiver Trade Deadline. That’s notable because 2012 was the year the second Wild Card was introduced, and the increase in Deadline swaps suggests what we’ve all suspected: more teams are willing to “go for it.”
We’re just two years removed from two Wild Card teams — the Giants and the Royals — in the World Series. That’s a reminder that getting to October is the key.
Teams combined to make 48 trades since June 1. That’s the most in 20+ years. pic.twitter.com/TrUr5PWJei
— MLB Stat of the Day (@MLBStatoftheDay) August 2, 2016
Teams combined to make 48 trades since June 1. That’s the most in 20+ years. pic.twitter.com/TrUr5PWJei
Here are takeaways from the comings and goings:
1. The Rangers had an amazing Deadline day They needed starting pitching and had focused on Chris Sale, Chris Archer and others. President of baseball operations Jon Daniels couldn’t find a trade for pitching in which he would not have to include his star kids, Jurickson Profar or Joey Gallo.
So Daniels did what the best general managers often do. He improved his team in other areas, and dramatically in acquiring outfielder/designated hitter Beltran from the Yankees, in addition to catcher Lucroy and reliever Jeremy Jeffress from the Brewers.
Daniels paid a steep price, sending outfielder Lewis Brinson and right-hander Luis Ortiz, Texas’ No. 2 and 3 prospects, to Milwaukee, and pitching …
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