Stormy Monday: 18 deals, 49 players, 1 frenetic pace

It was a wild day around Major League Baseball as the dust settled on Monday’s non-waiver Trade Deadline. Teams were working deals down to the wire, seeking last-minute roster upgrades heading into the final two months of the regular season.

For weeks, trade buzz dominated the baseball news cycle. The trade season began in earnest July 14, when the Red Sox acquired Drew Pomeranz from the Padres in exchange for pitching prospect Anderson Espinoza, and from June 1 through the Deadline, 48 trades were completed, the most in at least 20 years. The previous high over the last two decades was 43, set last season. Monday was particularly busy leading up to the 4 p.m. ET cutoff; this year’s 18 Deadline-day trades are the most since at least 1995.

Teams combined to make 48 trades since June 1. That’s the most in 20+ years. pic.twitter.com/TrUr5PWJei

— MLB Stat of the Day (@MLBStatoftheDay) August 2, 2016

Teams combined to make 48 trades since June 1. That’s the most in 20+ years. pic.twitter.com/TrUr5PWJei

Below is a look at some more interesting facts and figures from this year’s Trade Deadline as well as a rundown of all 18 Deadline-day deals:

Total number of deals completed/announced on Deadline day: 18

Number of players involved in deadline trades: 49

Number of teams involved in player-for-player trades: 27

18 trades today are most #TradeDeadline-day deals since at least 1995, surpassing 15 in 2010 and 2015. pic.twitter.com/A5LJn6iHbq

— MLB Stat of the Day (@MLBStatoftheDay) August 2, 2016

18 trades today are most #TradeDeadline-day deals since at least 1995, surpassing 15 in 2010 and 2015. pic.twitter.com/A5LJn6iHbq

Now a look at all that has transpired since the Pomeranz trade got the ball rolling on July 14

Total number of deals completed since July 14: 35

Total number of players involved: 93

Total number of player-for-player trades (excludes deals exclusively for cash considerations or a player to be named later): 32

Teams that made no player-for-player trades: Phillies, Rockies, Tigers

Teams involved in the most trades: • Yankees with five (Adam Warren, Gleyber Torres, Billy McKinney, Rashad Crawford, Tyler Clippard, Ben Heller, Clint Frazier, J.P. Feyereisen, Justus Sheffield, Nick Green, Erik Swanson, Dillon Tate in; Carlos Beltran, Aroldis Chapman, Andrew Miller, Ivan Nova, Vicente Campos out) • Blue Jays with five (Melvin Upton Jr., Joaquin Benoit, Mike Bolsinger, Scott Feldman, Francisco Liriano, Harold Ramirez, Reese McGuire in; Hansel Rodriguez, Drew Storen, Jesse Chavez, Guadalupe Chavez, Drew Hutchison out) • Padres with five (Anderson …

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