This wasn’t any normal trade deadline — sure it had some last-minute excitement, but gone largely were the big names. We didn’t see the New York Yankees or Los Angeles Dodgers make a big splash. There was no earth-shattering move.
Some teams got better. Some accepted their fate, even 30 games into a shortened season. And some helped themselves now and in the long run, like the Padres who landed Mike Clevinger in a deal that probably wouldn’t have been possible had the coronavirus not swept through baseball and had Clevinger not lost some of his luster by violating the league’s protocols.