Contenders wasted no time in improving their rosters on Tuesday, with several stars changing teams on a wild day around baseball.
With Friday’s nonwaiver trading deadline approaching, Troy Tulowitzki, Jose Reyes, Jonathan Papelbon, Ben Zobrist and others were all on the move. It was the busiest 24 hours yet of the late-July trading season, and the reigning American League champions have been perhaps the most aggressive.
That would be the Kansas City Royals, who have traded five pitching prospects in two deals. In the first deal, on Sunday, they acquired the Cincinnati Reds’ ace, Johnny Cueto.