A day later, the players took the field.Tarik Skubal made his Dodgers debut, Liam Hicks hit cleanup for the Rays, Bryce Harper played right field for the Phillies, and George Lombard Jr. played in the big leagues for the first time ever.Baseball’s trade deadline was slow gathering steam over the weekend before a frantic finish on Monday. Ultimately, more than 50 big league players were traded in the past week, every team made some sort of deal, and dominoes crashed into one another all over the league.On Tuesday, that change was on display across the league, the impacts from all that buying and selling rippling out far beyond the players who were dealt.A star moves to the outfield, and new names dot the lineup cardsWhen the Phillies traded for second baseman Luis Arraez on Monday, it triggered a series of defensive adjustments that ended with Harper moving from first base back to the outfield. He played right field for the first time since 2022, Bryson Stott moved from second to third, Alec Bohm went from third to first, and the Phillies are going to mostly platoon in left field and center. Harper, who had publicly pleaded for the Phillies to add a hitter, had also made clear his willingness to change positions to make it happen. The trade market was relatively light on outfielders.“His volunteering opened up the door for us to go ahead and get an infielder,” Phillies president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski said. “If he didn’t want to go to the outfield, we wouldn’t have been able to add another infielder at this point.”The Phillies’ game of musical chairs was the most notable and glaring of the various roster adjustments happening around the league. The Rays had their new catcher, Hicks, in the middle of the order, with new starter Freddy Peralta on the mound. Lars Nootbaar made his Diamondbacks debut at designated hitter, Brenton Doyle played center field for the White Sox, and the Mets announced that Kodai Senga will work as a one-inning reliever from here on out as one of the game’s most disappointing teams tries to get some sort of value from one of its most disappointing pitchers.New additions mean somebody has to goWhen the Mariners traded for left fielder Taylor Ward on Monday, they sent three young pitchers to the Orioles in exchange. When they had to find a place for Ward on their roster on Tuesday, the Mariners wound up releasing veterans Rob Refsnyder and Mitch Garver, each of whom had underperformed this season.To make room for deadline additions Nathaniel Lowe and Jo Adell, the Guardians optioned Kyle Manzardo and David Fry, previously two of their most important hitters. To get Skubal into their rotation, the Dodgers optioned Emmet Sheehan, a member of their playoff roster 10 months ago.