Major League Baseball's non-waiver trade deadline has come and gone. In its dust is a flurry of moves in the past several weeks, notably picking up very strongly in the past 24 hours. Since it's a knee-jerk world and we're only living in it, let's go through the winners and losers of the past, oh, month or so in terms of how the franchises look now compared to then.
Top winner
Dodgers: They were actually almost a relative loser, but the last-minute flurry of deals show that Andrew Friedman and his front office stayed the course and ended up winning big. The Dodgers needed left-handed relief help and while Tony Watson and Tony Cingrani don't exactly blow you away, there's enough there to believe that one of them will have settled in by the playoffs.
Then the whopper came with the Dodgers getting Yu Darvish from the Rangers just before the buzzer. Further, the consensus is that the top prospect on the move was Willie Calhoun and that he was only the Dodgers' fourth-best prospect.
Look at the timing of the move and it's obvious Friedman never relented on not giving up more than that until Jon Daniels and the Rangers brass had to take the deal.
Darvish wasn't the type of deal the Dodgers had to make. They are going to end up with the best record in baseball. The move was about leaving as little as possible in the crapshoot of the postseason to chance -- a point we'll revisit with our biggest loser.