During the 10 days leading up to the Aug. 31 trade deadline, 32 deals were made by 13 teams.
At first glance, that would seem to be more than anticipated. Nobody predicted an overly active deadline, given the uncertainty surrounding the rest of this season, and that comes off as a fairly hectic ramp-up to the September stretch run.
In reality, the entire market was driven by two teams, the Padres and Blue Jays, who were responsible for more than one-third of those trades.
