As MLB trade deadline approaches, Dodgers find a muddled market

LOS ANGELES — A year ago at this time, Manny Machado was already in the Dodgers’ lineup.
With this year’s midseason trade deadline just more than a week away, though, the trade market has become a crowd of ‘mall walkers,’ milling about and waiting for the stores to open – without knowing which ones might not open at all.
“This is the strangest market that I can remember,” Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman says. “Just wi