July 30, 4 p.m. Real MLB Trade Deadline Impact Statis-Pro

With our readers divided between the 51,000 unique visitors to the Value Add Basketball Game and the 28,000 unique visitors to the Statis-Pro baseball game, some of the latter have noted the gap in our baseball updates since the AL All-Star team line-up.

Partly this is just getting caught between the MLB All-Star game and the great NBA Finals, which led to our NBA Finals Alumni Tournament (semifinals now set between Wisconsin 2015 vs. Villanova 2018, and UVa 2018 vs. Louisville 2020). However, the other reason for the gap in baseball simulations is the read trade deadline July 30 at 4 p.m. ET.

The new rules really do end all trades in 11 days - on Friday, July 30 at 4 p.m. ET. The old "send the trade through waivers" trick does not work anymore. You can dump a player with a huge salary on waivers and hope someone else will pick up the salary, but no more Justin Verlander trades a month after the deadline.

With the chance to know we will really be playing games with almost "final" rosters for each team in just two weekends, we are enjoying getting in the basketball action to see the players in our Value Add Basketball Game playing off with their old college teams before taking the court for the Suns vs. Bucks series.

However, we will be back to baseball soon and have tracked the following moves in our game. We leave players in the game if they just jump down to the minors, or go on 10-game DL, but we do take players out or put them back in the game depending on the 60-day DL, and we have some players coming and going in addition to some recent trades we have tracked below. These are recent changes we've made, and the Braves who were hit with another huge loss in Ronald Acuna Jr., and least picked up Joc Pederson to add a bit of power.

Here are the other changes we've just made in our stack of Statis-Pro cards. 

Team	Added	Player	Pos	Move
Arizona	added	Brett deGeus	RHP	waiver
Atlanta	added	Joc Pederson	1B	trade
Atlanta	lost	Ronald Acuna Jr	RF	60-day
Chicago Cubs	lost	Joc Pederson	1B	trade
Cincinnati	added	Michael Lorenzen	RHP-OF	was 60-d
Cincinnati	lost	Nick Senzel	CF	60-day
Cleveland	added	Roberto Perez	C	was 60-d
LA Angels	lost	Hunter Strickland	RHP	trade
LA Angels	lost	Mike Trout	CF	60-day
Milwaukee	added	Hunter Strickland	RHP	trade
NY Mets	lost	Adam Cimber	RHP	trade
NY Mets	added	JD Davis	3B	was 60-d
NY Yankees	added	Zack Britton	LHP	was 60-d
Texas	lost	Brett deGeus	RHP	waiver
Toronto	added	Adam Cimber	RHP	trade
Washington	lost	Will Harris	RHP	60-day