While it’s true that a season is neither won nor lost at the trade deadline, impact acquisitions have the ability to completely change the narrative of a team. As the dust settled from one of the most hectic deadlines in recent memory, the Yankees’ biggest and most impactful additions came via the acquisitions of Anthony Rizzo and Joey Gallo. But sometimes, it’s the smaller deals that have an unexpectedly huge impact on a team. Brian Cashman and his team pulled off three such deals midseason.
The first was a late April move that saw Mike Tauchman flipped to the San Francisco Giants for reliever Wandy Peralta and first baseman Connor Cannon.