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The two thousand twenty six MLB trade deadline is officially in the books, and more than sixty deals went down before the buzzer. The full thirty-team tracker is live, sorting out who bought, who sold, and who stood pat as the league reshapes itself heading into the playoff stretch.
Speaking of reshaping, Seattle made some noise. Jerry Dipoto and the Mariners front office spun a pair of moves in the final forty-eight hours, looking to jolt a roster caught in the thick of a heated playoff race. The grades are in, the new-look roster is set, and now the players have to deliver on what the front office bought them.
And in Atlanta, the Braves made a move that had been building for weeks, releasing a fourteen million dollar clubhouse favorite to clear the path for Ha-Seong Kim to come off his rehab assignment and rejoin the active roster. It's a tough business decision wrapped in a feel-good return, and Atlanta is betting Kim gives them a real boost down the stretch.
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