Once the clock ticked into Monday, there were 63 hours until the trade deadline and 63 days until the season ends. The first 63 will directly impact the second. Every hour there isn’t a trade — or every trade that doesn’t involve the St. Louis Cardinals — the city with simmer.
- The baseball game on Tuesday will feel like it has football-game implications, because it’s Cards-Cubs, first place vs. first place. And even with some minor-league action, the ramifications will have reverberations, as we monitor the rehab assignments of the ready-to-mash Marcell Ozuna and the MASH’d Matt Carpenter.