CC easily leads the pack of MLB's best modern in-season pickups

Most Wins Above Replacement (WAR) by AL/NL players for teams they did not start the season on and played fewer than 50% of available games with, since 1986 (when MLB standardized the trade deadline to July 31)

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Available games were estimated for starting pitchers based on how many starts would have been available.

Chart: Neil PaineSource: Baseball-Reference, FanGraphsCreated with Datawrapper