2024 MLB Trade Deadline Winners and Losers

The FanGraphs Newsletter, July 31, 2024 [READ IN BROWSER]( July 31, 2024 Another year, another frenetic trade deadline. This year’s bonanza was light on top talent relative to recent years, but it made up for that in volume. With tight races in both leagues and plenty of teams looking to shore up clear weaknesses, it was a seller’s market, particularly when it came to pitching. Now that the dust has settled, Ben Clemens is here to hand out some judgment. These are going to be inherently subjective, but that doesn’t mean Ben doesn’t put a little rigor into his system. He focuses on two things when looking at individual teams. First, and more important: Did a team’s moves match up with its needs? This is easy to gauge, and since it’s the whole point of the deadline, it carries the most wait. Second: How’d teams do on the trades they made? We think this part is inherently more subjective – there’s no unified prospect ranking or database where we can see how traded players will do the rest of the season, and we’re working with less information than teams have. That doesn’t mean we're not crediting teams for trades we like or docking them for moves we don’t, just that we're weighting it slightly less than the first category. Let’s dive right in. WINNERS Teams Trading Pitchers It was a good year to have an effective pitcher on the trade block. With plenty of teams looking for rotation and bullpen help and the biggest names mostly not getting moved, the teams who dealt effective pitching all did fairly well — with one notable exception that we’ll get to later. I initially thought Houston’s trade of Jake Bloss, Joey Loperfido, and Will Wagner for Yusei Kikuchi was an outlier of a haul. [LEARN MORE]( [Red Sox Trade for Lucas Sims, Yankees Add Mark Leiter Jr. to Bolster Their Bullpens]( The AL East rivals went deadline shopping for relievers from NL Central clubs. | by David Laurila [Pirates Brighten Up their Offense With a Fresh Coat of Paint]( Pittsburgh addressed some surface-level concerns, but larger structural issues remain. | by Kiri Oler [Hey, Martín Pérez Got Traded Too!]( One of the last trades of the deadline day, as the Padres look to reinforce their rotation. | by Ben Clemens [Top of the Order: The Roster Implications of the Trade Deadline]( Trades! What are they good for? A lot! | by Jon Becker [Dodgers Land Their Impact Starter in Jack Flaherty]( For a deadline short on big moves, the Dodgers may have made the biggest one. | by Jay Jaffe [Sic Transit Eloy Jiménez]( At the last minute, the Orioles bring in Jiménez, Austin Slater, and Livan Soto, the minor league infielder they can't say goodbye to. | by Michael Baumann [Rip-Roarin' Reliever Roundup Rodeo 2024, Part II: The Wrangling]( When you have more relievers, you don't even need more cowbell. | by Dan Szymborski [Outfielder/Reliever Swap Omnibus: Rays, Cards, Giants, and Tigers Make Deals]( The Cardinals and Giants are stocking up for playoff runs, while the Rays and Tigers swap impending free agents for longer-term players. | by Ben Clemens 🎧 [Effectively Wild Episode 2197: How the Trade Deadline Went Down]( [DOWNLOAD THE FANGRAPHS APP]( [FanGraphs & Effectively Wild Merch Is Now Available at BreakingT!]( [ORDER HERE]( [Why the 2024 trade deadline might not be the end of player movement]( via ESPN [Who were the Trade Deadline winners? We ranked the top 7]( by Will Leitch, MLB [MLB trade deadline grades for all 30 teams: Savvy sellers, bold buyers get high marks]( by Jim Bowden, The Athletic ($) [The Winners and Losers of the 2024 MLB Trade Deadline]( by Anthony Dabbundo, The Ringer [@fangraphs]( [FanGraphs]( [FanGraphs]( [RSS]( [FORWARD]( [SUBSCRIBE]( Copyright © 2024 FanGraphs Inc, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the FanGraphs Newsletter. Our mailing address is: FanGraphs Inc 3017 N Underwood StArlington, VA 22213 [Add us to your address book]( Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](