Ah, August. The worst month to endure, but the month with the best name. August. The dog days of summer when the heat persists with annoying redundancy. We’re all a little sleepy from the sun’s unrelenting assault upon us. Baseball season has been well-established as a fact in our lives, far from the chilly excitement of Opening Day, but distant enough from October that we repeat platitudes like, “There’s still a lot of baseball left.”
July 31st is the theoretical trade deadline. July is when you expect the blockbuster trades and the big names skipping across the transaction wire.