Dominguez endured one of the longest and strangest days a ballplayer can have, but when it comes to the trading deadline, there are far worse fates than leaping four spots in the standings and sleeping in your own bed the night you’re dealt.

MLB reporter Héctor Gómez wrote on Twitter that the Brewers had emerged "now as a top suitor" for Suárez, but the names he mentioned as a possible return lined up perfectly with our Journal Sentinel story proposing mock trades (with reaction and analysis from Curt Hogg), which seems fishy.

How sustainable do you guys feel what we're seeing from Andrew Vaughn is? "We have several guys downstairs and upstairs that think this is real," the Milwaukee Brewers general manager answered. Vaughn delivered a response of his own hours later.