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Trade deadline had some winners … and losers

By Jayson Stark
ESPN.com

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Is it us, or did we just finish a trade-deadline July we'll look back on in 50 years and still find ourselves wondering: What the heck happened there? Think about the men who got traded, in a span of 24 action-packed days in July: A 600-homer guy (Ken Griffey Jr.). A 500-homer guy (Manny Ramirez). A 14-time All-Star catcher (Pudge Rodriguez). An incumbent Cy Young Award winner (CC Sabathia). The starting pitcher with the best strikeout ratio in baseball this year (Rich Harden). And the se ...

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