The rumors you’ve heard are true: The trade deadline has passed.
If you want a full accounting of all the moves that matter for Fantasy Baseball, then you should check out our Trade Deadline Tracker, complete with analysis from Chris Towers and myself. But if you’re short on attention or starved for time and would prefer a simple rundown of the moves that matter most, well, I have you covered right here.
Not every one of these winners and losers was involved in a trade himself. Sometimes, it’s the innocent bystanders who are impacted most, and you could say the same for the players who were presumed to be on the move but wound up staying put. The point here is to zero in on what actually changed for Fantasy Baseball. If the trade deadline, whether directly or indirectly, altered a player’s outlook in some meaningful way, rest assured, he gets a mention here.
I want to give a special shout-out to the Marlins, who won’t get much pub here but, to me, were the true deadline standouts, dealing away mostly low-impact players for a bounty of under-performing or under-the-radar prospects. They gave up a little to get a lot more bites at the apple basically, which is a smart plan for a team in the earliest stages of a rebuild.
If you’d like the specifics of what they did, again, you’ll want to check out the Trade Deadline Tracker, which I’ve linked above.
Other winners: Junior Caminero, 3B, TB; Ben Joyce, RP, LAA; Joey Loperfido, OF, TOR; Connor Norby, 2B, MIA; Kyle Stowers, OF, MIA
Other losers: Yusei Kikuchi, SP, HOU; Yimi Garcia, RP, SEA; Michael Kopech, RP, LAD; Bryan De La Cruz, OF, PIT; Alec Marsh, SP, KC
