The non-waiver trade deadline has been pushed back one day to August 1st, MLB announced. This is for the 2016 season only. It’ll go back to July 31st in 2017. MLB made the change because July 31st falls on a Sunday this year, and they didn’t want the deadline interfering with a full slate of games.
“A Sunday trade deadline, given the way we play games on Sunday, didn’t seem like it made the most sense, so we decided to move it the one day,” said commissioner Rob Manfred to reporters at the quarterly owners’ meetings yesterday. “We don’t think it will be the end of modern civilization to do it one day later.