About a week before the MLB trade deadline, Toronto Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins said he expected things to come down to the wire. He wasn’t joking.
In a furious final 10 minutes before 6 p.m. ET on Tuesday, the Blue Jays rattled off two notable trades, first nabbing right-hander Mitch White from the Los Angeles Dodgers, then acquiring veteran utility man Whit Merrifield from the Kansas City Royals.
That surge in activity came after Toronto made perhaps its most significant trade earlier in the day by flipping fourth-ranked prospect Jordan Groshans to the Miami Marlins in exchange for Zach Pop and Anthony Bass, two right-handed bullpen arms.