The MLB trade deadline is a temporary black hole, warping time around its event horizon as it pulls the entire baseball industry inexorably into its grasp. Some deals happen in the time it took Cool Papa Bell to flip a light switch, others move at an almost Trachselian pace as they struggle to escape gravity.
So it is that many deals, like the one between the Cubs and Tigers to send Nicholas Castellanos to Chicago in exchange for pitching prospects Alex Lange and Paul Richan, aren’t announced until after the 4pm ET deadline.