The 2019 trade deadline was a bit of a boring one for the Yankees. They made just one trade, acquiring a 20-year old pitcher who’s still a ways off sniffing the major leagues. However, it isn’t like that most years.
An MLB-wide trade deadline was put into effect in 1923. In the wake of the Babe Ruth sale, several AL teams had become fed up with the Yankees’ consistent trading with the Red Sox and White Sox, who were allied with each other in a feud against AL president Ban Johnson.
In 1922, the Yankees and Red Sox made a mid-season deal that saw Boston send outfielder Joe Dugan to New York.