This time subsequent week, commerce season will probably be over. We’ll know if the surging Brewers added one other bat, if the Yankees, Mets and Dodgers did sufficient to handle their injury-depleted pitching staffs, and which uniform Eugenio Suárez will probably be sporting the remainder of the season. We’ll additionally hopefully have a greater thought of the place groups stand as we enter the canine days of August and look forward to the September pennant chases.
For a lot of groups, the video games between now and Thursday’s deadline will carry the load of the subsequent two months, as their efficiency over that stretch will form their technique for the remainder of the season. All of this makes for a most enjoyable week forward of us. As all the time, we’ll be masking the chaos right here at FanGraphs, analyzing trades large and small for our readers.
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