by Janice Scurio Updated On: August 2, 2021, 7:15 pm ET
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Friday s trade deadline passed with the vigor of a passing tempest, as it was one of the more memorable deadlines in recent history. Though a handful of deals were made on Thursday evening, the Friday afternoon transactions left some baseball fans in the center of the storm. Perhaps most notably, the Chicago Cubs traded away some core players before the deadline, many of which were the remaining members of the 2016 World Series championship team. As of Sunday evening, the Cubs are 12 1/2 games behind the first place Milwaukee Brewers, with a 51-56 record good for fourth place in the National League Central division. Acquiring prospects to contribute to a future rebuild is now the direction in which the organization is
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Congratulations: You’ve made it through the MLB trade deadline in one piece. (Hopefully that was a wild one.) After a frenzied afternoon of deals, here are the winners, losers, and teams in between.
Winners
Los Angeles Dodgers: The Dodgers haven t been in first place since April like many expected, but they have the National League s largest run differential and still looked like they could be the NL s best team with good health and the right breaks. And their deadline has solidified that. In need of rotation depth, they picked up the best rental starter available, Max Scherzer. (They added Danny Duffy, too, though he’s currently on the IL.) They didn’t