Time's up! The 2023 MLB trade deadline came Tuesday afternoon, locking in the major veteran pieces for baseball’s race to October. In a season of tightly bunched standings, only a few teams sold impact players, the most notable being the New York Mets, who undertook a massive reset that sent two future Hall of Famers and a spray of others to contending teams.
Other teams on the periphery of contention buckled up to go for it, including the Los Angeles Angels in Shohei Ohtani’s final season under team control and the disappointing San Diego Padres.