Beginning this season, there will no longer be August trades. July 31 will be the only trade deadline in baseball, and there are several ramifications from that. If there is one thing all San Francisco Giants fans remember about the pennant races in the Brian Sabean era, it is all the trades the team made and how many key pieces were added even after July.
Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic laid out some of the unintended consequences of changing the rule. Most notably, what if a team loses a key player to injury in August and cannot replace them through trade.