July 31st came and went yesterday and it was a bit bereft in terms of activity on the final day. In what was kind of expected, the Dodgers stood pat (Michael Morse for Jose Tabata doesn’t count), after fortifying the bullpen, and absolutely overhauling the starting rotation in a humongous and unique 13 player trade between the Braves and Marlins.
For a team that went into the July trading month with huuuuge expectations -the National writers were assuming very early on that they’d end up with one of Price/Hamels- “only” acquiring Mat Latos and Alex Wood along with depth pieces from the bullpen would seem to be a disappointment, but making such definitive statements on anything that Andrew Friedman and Farhan Zaidi do are ill advised to say the least.