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    UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

    Sep 03, 2019 4 minutes

    JOE SHEEHAN

    @JOE_SHEEHAN

    Coming into the summer, we thought of the rule change that created the One True Trade Deadline as eliminating the August waiver period and the Aug. 31 second deadline. What it really seemed to do was push the action of that deadline to July 31.

    In the 24 hours leading up to the deadline, there were a whopping 32 trades. The vast majority of them involved players the average fan couldn’t place on a bet, from Joe Harvey to Rocky Gale to Joe McCarthy.

    Contending teams, facing the final third of the season

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