Why did the Atlanta Braves hang onto their expiring veterans? President of baseball operations Alex Anthopoulos attempted to justify the strategy.

Despite anticipation, the Braves stayed mostly quiet: "Our goal at this deadline was to focus on guys that could help us in '26."

If you’ve ever played the board game “Risk,” you know it relies on rolls of the dice to determine the outcome of battles. It’s a game of chance in which even a player with a superior number of troops can still lose to a lucky roll of the dice.

In fact, some of the players he writes about in there weren't even traded – like Randy Rodriguez, who figures to step in as the Giants closer after Camilo Doval was traded to the Yankees and might just be the biggest winner of the trade deadline from a Fantasy perspective.