From births to funerals -- and everywhere in between -- the job of a major league baseball general manager is never done. That is especially the case this time of year, when talks heat up in advance of the July 31 trade deadline.
Calls and texts can come at the most inopportune times for front office members, but that doesn't mean they're going to go unanswered. After all, there's always another team willing to do a deal.
With that in mind, we asked MLB executives to tell us their favorite trade stories.
Trade talks at the most inopportune times
'We went back and looked at the time stamp of when he had sent texts and when the baby was born'