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Before this weekend officially arrives, Major League Baseball will have put the wraps on the game’s annual trade frenzy. The deal deadline is 3 p.m. CDT Friday and, while some teams have already completed trades they hope and trust will lock up playoff berths, the KC Royals have remained quiet.
They did, of course, make a trade of sorts last week when they acquired reliever Joel Payamps from Toronto for cash considerations. But it wasn’t a blockbuster, or even the kind of big newsmaker July deals tend to be.