MLB trade deadline: 3 winners and 3 losers from baseball’s deadline deals

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Baseball’s trade deadline has come and gone and now it’s time to take stock of what just happened. [{ "selector": ".wcclp-a", "duration": "500ms", "fill": "forwards", "delay": "1500ms", "keyframes": [ {"offset": 0, "opacity": 0}, {"offset": 1, "opacity": "1"} ] }]

Last year is a prime example since you’d be hard-pressed to find anybody who had the Braves as a clear winner of the 2021 trade deadline, but they’ve got the shiny new World Series trophy to show for it

With that in mind, we’re still going to try to find out who could follow in Atlanta’s footsteps of turning trade deadline deals into October glory.

The Padres were going to be winners based off of picking up Soto alone, but they upped the ante when they managed to get Josh Bell in the same deal.

A lot of teams would’ve been happy with simply getting a generational talent like Soto and leaving it at that, but the Padres went above and beyond by also bringing in a hitter of Bell’s caliber [{ "selector": ".ddbzq-a", "duration": "500ms", "fill": "forwards", "delay": "1500ms", "keyframes": [ {"offset": 0, "opacity": 0}, {"offset": 1, "opacity": "1"} ] }]

That also wasn’t even the end of it for San Diego. They also added versatile fielder Brandon Drury via trade and this was all after they pulled off a shocker the night before deadline day by trading for shutdown closer Josh Hader. [{ "selector": ".pxxaz-a", "duration": "500ms", "fill": "forwards", "delay": "1000ms", "keyframes": [ {"offset": 0, "opacity": 0}, {"offset": 1, "opacity": "1"} ] }]