ST. LOUIS - The New York Mets got lucky, the San Diego Padres got the jitters, the New York Yankees acted strangely, the Boston Red Sox went to sleep, and the best trades of the day amounted to nothing more than rumors.
The non-waiver trade deadline went quietly Friday afternoon, but when general managers finally were able to put down their cell phones, and reporters stopped typing 140 characters on Twitter, and the fans stopped calling the talk-shows, the shape of the 2015 season is clear.
Funny how a baseball season is six months, and 162 games long, but it's two weeks that determines its course.