Pitching wise I'm not sure that this is the type of trade deadline that Blue Jays fans expected when Atkins talked about accountability when he canned Montoyo. The team is better but everyone else around them is also better (some seem a lot better).
At the same time, I'm pretty sure Tanner fricking Roark could have gotten a team's 5th best prospect at this deadline so they didn't mortgage the future for a moderately better present.
The Merrifield trade came in when I was writing this. Interesting.
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