MLB Trade

Deadline

By Grant Brisbee, Stephen J. Nesbitt and Andy McCullough

Ever binged a show you found boring at first? Then you got hooked and started spending time tumbling down internet rabbit holes and debating plot theories on Reddit. It wasn’t until the final credits rolled that you unglued your eyeballs from the screen and realized your condition. You were exhausted. You looked awful. You needed a drink of water.

That’s how tracking this year’s MLB trade deadline felt. A slow-moving market morphed into a sprint over the past 24 hours, and now Mason Miller is a Padre, Shane Bieber a Blue Jay, David Bednar a Yankee and Carlos Correa an Astro … again.