Under The Knife 7/26/21

Lines Form For Pitching and Pop

The trade deadline is coming up and again, this is a real trade deadline. There’s no weird waiver rules to think about, just a line in the sand, a red letter calendar day where teams will basically set themselves up for success, or not. Joe Sheehan pointed out the other day that there’s seldom been a more set “Playoff Ten” in the wild card era than now …