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MLB trade deadline breakdown: Biggest names, surprises and what it all means for October

The 2020 MLB trade deadline, the strangest deadline in Major League Baseball history, has passed.

The San Diego Padres stole the headlines by dealing for Mike Clevinger on a deadline day that lagged behind other recent ones in overall volume of moves. But that doesn't mean the trades that went down this year won't have a major impact on this October, the 2021 season and beyond. So what happened and what does it mean?

We asked ESPN baseball writers David Schoenfield, Sam Miller and Joon Lee to answer seven key questions.

Aside from Mike Clevinger, who is the biggest October difference-maker who moved this week?