Yesterday was MLB’s trade deadline and the pace at which trades were executed can best be explained as frenetic with a caffeine chaser. I’m not sure how many players were moved in total, but even Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer did more than I thought they might, though it was nothing truly significant and got mixed reviews.
"Our goal here is to win as many games as possible and hopefully be able to get a good seed in this tournament and then to keep playing for a while in October. And we felt like we needed to make these additions to make that possible.