It might be a stretch to say that baseball’s recent trade deadline was much ado about nothing. So let’s be a bit more charitable and say that it was…..underwhelming.
After weeks of hyperbole and rumors of blockbusters, the deadline was more about quantity instead of quality. A total of 58 trades were made in the final week — including 29 on the final day — and yet just two All-Stars were moved. And neither was exactly a luminary: Tampa Bay’s Isaac Paredes and Miami’s Tanner Scott. Paredes, in particular, was chosen to the game because every team had to be represented.
