RCL Update, Week 17: The Week That Was
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The MLB trade deadline has come and gone and that typically means a lot of scrambling for those in the Razzball Commenter Leagues. Closers are a necessary evil and there’s never a better time to snag a new one then at the MLB trade deadline. This trade deadline we gained a Shane Greene, regained an A.J. Ramos and gained whatever the heck is going to happen in Minnesota. The Twins could name T.C. Bear closer for all I know; it’s not like it would matter much. To everyone stashing Kirby Yates, my condolences. The Padres apparently wouldn’t budge on their steep asking price for Brad Hand, and so we got the shaft. I was sweating the Zach Britton to Houston news for my recently traded for Ken Giles, thankfully that didn’t pan out. Now that the MLB trade deadline is over with, we turn our attention to our own, RCL trade deadline. That, my friends, is Friday, August 11th at high noon. We have 10 days to make the most of our teams for the stretch run. I expect plenty of trading action for the next two updates. There were 12 trades this week, up from 10 the previous two weeks. Let’s take a look at those, and the rest of the happenings in the RCLs in the week that was, week 17: