Trade Deadline: Alive and Running

It has been a busy last few days for Major League execs and MLB beat writers. The trad deadline has passed us, and boy what a last 12 hours it has been.

Playoff teams have been looking for that final piece to the puzzle, while those teams that are out of contention are already looking ahead to the future by making (most of the time) necessary financial moves.

The final day of trading kicked off with a big bang. The Boston Red Sox traded starting pitcher Jon Lester and outfielder Jonny Gomes to Oakland for slugger Yoenis Cespedes. Beantown gets the back-to-back Home Run Derby champ, who will square off with the Green Monster every home at bat, while Oakland pieces together one of the most lethal rotations in the league (Lester, Sonny Gray, Scott Kazmir, Jeff Samardzija, Jason Hammel).

Not to be outdone, the Detroit Tigers traded for, what many claim was the biggest name rumored, Cy Young winner David Price in a three-team deal with the Tampa Bay Rays and the Seattle Mariners. Tampa Bay got Drew Smyly, Nick Franklin and prospect Willy Adames, while Seattle will receive center fielder Austin Jackson — who was actually pulled in the seventh inning of the game when the trade was made.