It appears we’re supposed to take the Dodgers seriously as contenders, since they lead the division in early August, have played excellent baseball since the All-Star break, and are doing all this with $427 billion worth of pitchers on the disabled list. Watching their game last night, though, one thing nagged at me, a sign…
The frenzy surrounding the July 31 trade deadline is a relatively new phenomenon. I don’t know–and am too lazy to check–whether there are more deals around deadline time now than there were, say, 10 years ago, but to my untrained eye, it sure appears as if there’s a lot more attention paid to "Deal Week"…