Baseball’s non-waiver trade deadline is Aug. 1 this year, pushed back a day because July 31 falls on a Sunday.
The rumors will really begin in earnest as June comes to a close, and the actual trades will start to become a frequent reality in the final week or two of July. Don’t sleep on the idea of major-impact moves happening well before the All-Star Game, though (that’s July 12, by the way).
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Before we look at which players could get moved early, let’s look back at deals that went down at the midseason break over the past few years.