Ah, trade deadline day. One of the bigger days on the baseball calendar, though admittedly it has diminished somewhat the past few years, considering how tightly teams are holding on to their best assets now. There are still deals that happen, obviously, and we occasionally still get one of those crazy 24-48 hour periods where everything happens all at once, but I have to admit most of the time when the 31st of July rolls around I just don’t expect blockbusters to go down very often.
We Cardinal fans are, of course, used to blockbusters just not happening very often; every year it seems like the Redbirds are buyers at the deadline, but always cautious, conservative buyers.