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Jeff Passan’s MLB Trade Deadline Post-Mortem

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The dust has settled, and the MLB trade deadline is behind us. The rosters are more or less set for the stretch run of the MLB regular season. And what a deadline it was. 30 deals were struck on Tuesday alone, to say nothing of the moves that happened in the weeks leading up to July 31st. So Jeff Passan joins the show today to breakdown the comings and goings across the league. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This night lots on the trade deadline. There were 30 deals done just today.

0:09.0

It was breathtaking.

0:11.0

Jeff Passen, there's this episode taking.

0:13.0

Jeff Passen, there's this episode of Reba

0:16.0

where after she gets overloaded in her life,

0:18.0

she checks into a hotel in town

0:21.0

just to get a day away from her family to be able to breathe.

0:25.0

I bring all this up to set.

0:27.0

During MLB Trade deadline, what is your actual life like on a day to day in terms of how you get it done and how you build these passing bombs?

0:37.0

Well, we can start with the lack of sleep, but nobody really cares about that.

0:44.0

And we can end with what the day after is like,

0:48.6

which is the fact that right now,

0:50.8

as we are taping this episode at 10 o'clock eastern I am eating pizza

0:56.8

because I did not eat very much at all during the actual trade deadline itself because there's no time like

1:06.4

caloric intake, who cares? There are trades to be done and let me tell you man over the last week there have been a lot of trades that were

1:17.8

executed at what people around the game considered a pretty boring deadline and it just goes to show by

1:26.1

baseball standards interest tends to equal stars but that doesn't necessarily

1:32.3

impact the action that is going on.

1:35.0

The Marlins traded a third of their roster Jeffrey.

1:38.0

What is going on?

1:40.0

What's going on is that I think baseball every year wants to remind fans that in the same way

1:49.0

its all-star game is the best of the major North American sports.

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