All around Major League Baseball every team is seemingly
scrambling to either sell off their players or add players to their team before
the July 31st trading deadline. With the addition of a second Wild
Card playoff spot in the both the American and National League’s many have been
clamoring to extend the July 31st trading deadline to give teams
more time to determine whether they are contenders or pretenders and while this
could easily be done on paper I personally believe something else would have to
change. What I am suggesting here in this post is to push back the July 31st
trading deadline to August 15th but I would also push to completely
eliminate the August non-waiver trade deadline of August 31st.
The August trade deadline is redundant in my opinion with
not many notable trades get made during the month of August anyway. Pushing the
non-waiver trade deadline back two weeks gives teams more than enough time to
evaluate where they stand and evaluate which direction the team wants their
organization to head in. Giving the team another month to try and pass players
through waivers and unload hefty contracts does not add much to the sport and
would likely spice up things before the new August 15th trade
deadline.
If a team knows they can’t simply wait to pass a Jose Reyes,
a James Shields or a Chase Utley through waivers and trade them in August it
will force the team to be more active before the deadline that counts. It also
allows teams to evaluate what they have and where they are going before
September call ups and before post season rosters and eligibility needs to be
set. In my opinion this is a win, win for Major League Baseball all around.
This may never happen in my lifetime but I think it is
something that Major League Baseball at least needs to consider. It brings more
attention to the game for a longer period of time and may even get more people
to watch and pay attention for longer, who knows.
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