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How The Expanded Playoffs Are Affecting The Trade Market For Baseball’s Biggest Stars

Expanded playoffs make it harder to predict whether Tarik Skubal and other choice acquisitions will be dealt before the Aug, 3 trade deadline. Twenty-three of the 30 teams are within four games of a playoff position heading into the season's second half, which opens Thursday with the back-in-contention Philadelphia Phillies hosting the woeful New York Mets. "You’ve got a lot of really good teams that were on the bubble that have gotten in and kind of made it," Phillies first baseman Bryce Harper said. "Anybody that has an opportunity to get in, anything can happen and that’s what makes our spo...