Although the teams that call the National League Central home spent most of the season wriggling and squirming around each other in the standings, the July 31 trade deadline offered a definitive moment of demarcation. Some of their records may be bunched-up but their situations are vastly different. The division offers a bandwidth of teams at different points of the competitive cycle, from contending to rebuilding and everywhere in between, even the one that’s stuck in place. A look at the spectrum, which happens to match the standings as of Friday afternoon, and the moves each team made between the All-Star break and last week’s trade deadline.
CENTRAL STATION
