MLB trade grades -- Juan Soto is headed to the Padres! Who won the deadline's biggest blockbuster deal?

02.08.2022 - 19:29 espn.com

The trade: The Padres acquire OF Juan Soto and 1B Josh Bell from the Nationals for LHP MacKenzie Gore, OF Robert Hassell III, SS C.J.

Abrams, OF James Wood, RHP Jarlin Susana and one more major league player Now it is done. Now the story ends — at least the rumor part of it.

A new story begins. Juan Soto is heading to the Padres in one of the biggest blockbuster deals in trade deadline history. There have been future Hall of Famers traded at the deadline: Tom Seaver and Rickey Henderson and Randy Johnson.

There have been mega-stars traded at their peak: Mark McGwire and Manny Ramirez and Justin Verlander and, just last year, Max Scherzer and Trea Turner.

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CHICAGO — Last Tuesday, at the brink of MLB's trade deadline, Chicago Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer had a decision to make: Trade catcher Willson Contreras for what he believed was below market value, or keep him and potentially get an extra draft pick if Contreras leaves as a free agent at the end of the season.

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BLEARY-EYED AND SLEEP-DEPRIVED, their five-o'clock shadows looking more like 10, A.J. Preller and Mike Rizzo lurched into their offices on opposite coasts early Tuesday morning ready to do the unthinkable. Pulling off the biggest trade in the century-and-a-half-long history of Major League Baseball had taken the two general managers to the brink of exhaustion — and done the same to Juan Soto, the superstar outfielder who in a few hours would be dealt by Rizzo's Washington Nationals to Preller's San Diego Padres. For a deal so complicated, so consequential, so tectonic, though, an unfamiliar feeling that morning overwhelmed the principals of such a massive endeavor: peace.

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