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Every Los Angeles Angels victory, every day they spend over .500, every win-now move they make reinforces what people across baseball now almost universally believe: They will not trade Shohei Ohtani, the best player in the world, before the 6 p.m. ET deadline Aug. 1. Of course, a year ago today, Washington Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo went on a D.C. radio station and said he was not trading Juan Soto. Two months later, Soto was a San Diego Padre.

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It was about this time last year that a survey of club executives around the league first forecast that the Nationals might choose to deal Juan Soto, and Washington general manager Mike Rizzo responded with ardent denials. «We are not trading Juan Soto,» Rizzo said in a radio interview. «We made it clear to his agent and to the player.… We have every intention of building this team around Juan Soto, and we've spoken to his agent many, many times.

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Nationals' Stephen Strasburg's status unclear for 2023 after injury-riddled 2022

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Washington Nationals unsure of Stephen Strasburg's status for 2023 season

NEW YORK — Stephen Strasburg's status for 2023 is up in the air after a series of injuries that limited him to one start this season, Washington Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo said Tuesday.

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How Juan Soto became a San Diego Padre -- inside the biggest deal in baseball history

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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Juan Soto 'pumped' to join stacked San Diego Padres lineup, wishes opposing pitchers 'good luck'

SAN DIEGO — Juan Soto arrived at Petco Park promising to bring «good vibes» to the San Diego Padres and issuing a warning to opposing teams.

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Nationals trade Juan Soto to Padres in blockbuster deadline deal

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The players most likely to be traded before Tuesday's MLB trade deadline

Welcome to trade deadline day. We finally got a rush of action on Monday, so let's see if the momentum holds into what should be a busy day. The deadline comes at 6 p.m. ET, so that gives Padres GM A.J. Preller a few extra afternoon hours to swing a deal… or three.

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