trade deadline
Player swap limit
The trade deadline is the date after which professional sports teams can no longer exchange players during a season.
Before this cutoff, teams actively buy and sell: contenders acquire talent for playoff runs while struggling teams trade stars for future draft picks.
The team made three moves before the trade deadline.
The term appears in other contexts for any final date to complete an exchange.
- transactionExchange of goods/money
- rosterList of members
- acquisitionAct of obtaining something
- blockbusterEnormously successful entertainment property
- waiverFormal surrender of rights
buyout · expiring · contender · rebuild · fire sale · assets · draft picks · picks · prospects · rental · flip · salary · cap · package · haul · front office · rumors · buzz
- baseball seasonregular season, playoffs, postseason, World Series, spring training
- sports businesssalary cap, general manager, team owner, agents, agent
- baseballbaseball, bat, pitchers, catchers, pitcher
- Pro Sportsteam, teams, league, players, roster
- MLBbaseball, Yankees, Red Sox, Cardinals, Giants
- NBA termsall-stars, MVPs, champions, dynasty, free agents
trade deadlinefree agency
Athlete unbound by contract
offseason · training camp · preseason · draft day · season opener
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