Inside the MLB Trade Deadline: Why Teams Are Gambling Everything on Relentless Bullpens and What It Means for the Future of Baseball
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At the 2024 trade deadline, the San Diego Padres attempted something other teams hadn’t tried before. Sure, teams had added closers and high-leverage arms, but in a division with the Dodgers, the thinking in San Diego seemed to go, the Padres needed more than that. So San Diego acquired multiple potential closers in Robert Suarez, Tanner Scott and Jason Adam, putting together a three-headed bullpen monster that proved to be highly effective in both the regular season and the postseason.
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